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Comment on European Union set to approve Saudi PIF acquisition of Electronic Arts, according to report

I think its weird that games are essentially weapons now. Weird how we are suddenly against Chinese game companies like tencent due to security issues.

Game companies legit are abusing their power to crash “hackers” in their games when they are using cheating hardware. And the companies can do that because the malware slotmachine games as a service, have ring 0 kernal access to your PC.

Yet its weird we are okay with Saudi Arabia owning malware and potentially abusing that.

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csolisr@hub.azkware.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Kernel level anti-cheat is making me consider to move away from PC gaming for multiplayer games, which I already boycott on principle. Yes, it would mean lower performance, less input flexibility and paying for the privilege of playing online - but there's the peace of mind of knowing China, Saudi Arabia, the US or whomever else isn't rummaging through my passwords and personal data
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- FoxAlive@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I just stopped being able to enjoy them. Sbmm is just dark patterns to try to manipulate you into buying money in their store fronts. Which are now designed before the actual game.
  
  Games as a service is just straight up a gift shop that you hang out in and sometimes play a few rounds of games.
  
  All the fun is sucked out of it when I have to do my dailies, and click out on more pop ups that I ever remembered existing in the late 90’s trying to find porn on a free aol disks worth of internet.
  
  Its not like they even can stop cheaters anyways.
  
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- Goodeye8@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  If peace of mind is the only reason you’re buying a console just buy another PC. If you current PC is already pretty beefy you can buy a cheaper “work” PC. Move all your personal information there, wipe your gaming PC and use it exclusively for gaming. It’ll effectively be as “safe” as a console except you still get all the benefits of having PC.
  
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  - csolisr@hub.azkware.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Fair that... but not being able to use the good computer for actual computing (like image editing, video processing, compression, etcetera) doesn't feel right. What I'm doing, of course, is to just stop gaming online altogether.
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creamfresh@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Weird how we are suddenly against Chinese game companies like tencent due to security issues.

I don’t know who “we” is but Chinese game companies always had a bad rep. They just recently tried to gamewash their image by releasing games in this one genre with the sword and epic journeys.

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- FoxAlive@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  If someone says we you can assume its probably an american. We tend to assume we are the world.
  
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