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Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code (cyberinsider.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Rockstar Games' servers have been under heavy fire from massive DDoS attacks in recent days, causing widespread login and connectivity issues for players of GTA Online. These attacks come in the wake of Rockstar’s recent implementation of BattlEye, a new anti-cheat system designed to crack down on in-game cheating, sparking backlash from a segment of the player base. Protesters, unhappy with the new system, have resorted to using distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to disrupt the servers, escalating tensions between the gaming giant and its community.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Rockstar makes such weird choices considering how passionate their fans are.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Which ultimately makes being a passionate Rockstar fan a weirder and weirder choice.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Iam out of the loop. What kind of cheats are available in gta online? Edit: or what was available.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The most common cheat is probably gaining money or experience, but there have always been pretty extensive mod menus for GTA Online with tools from invincibility to making your vehicles rainbow, to randomly causing other players to explode or setting hundreds of muggers on them.

In 2015ish, I used to cheat, other than getting rich, all I was interested in doing was making an indestructible chrome bus with smoke trails that I'd drive around picking up players in, to teleport us all to North Yankton and back like a tour guide.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (14 children)

As someone who is pretty old and is a crap gamer - well firstly I only play single player so I guess it wouldn't effect me. But what's the problem with anti cheat? Aside from it being code you don't want on your machine. I dunno, I don't get why people cheat. Isn't it a better feeling when you just play and get good?

Edit - I'm not defending rockstar btw. Don't know the politics here. In fact last game I enjoyed was vice city on the PS2. I'm trying to hey caught up on everything I missed. But yeah, what's the problem with anti cheat?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Anticheats can be very invasive, they can theoretically scan all the files inside your computer (whether it is practically done, I don't know but it surely feels like it's been done), take screenshots regularly, send your hardware information, etc. So yeah, if you are someone who takes security seriously...

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I'll just play it on Xbox 360...or PS3...or PS4....or Xbox one....or PS5...or Xbox S/X...or Windows...wait is this Skyrim or GTA?

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