I don't really know how else to phrase this, but I'll give it a shot anyways: Anti-cheat isn't intrinsically linked to root level permissions. It's inclusion in a section about data sources compounds that concept. That is the claim that you are now making, and which isn't supported by the section you've cited.

Holy fuck I did not know about Overwolf. That's the last time I download something from my, apparently, dipshit friend (no, this is not the only stupid thing he's done).

Hey, maybe your friend didn't know either!(nor did i)

It is also worth nothing that no Borderlands games use anti-cheat, much less kernel anti-cheat. I'd even go as far as to say that no Gearbox, Take2 or 2k Games use kernel anti-cheat.

This is boilerplate language for games which include an online service component. Publishers often use the same Terms of Service across all of their games, so they include language that is often irrelevant for any specific game.

The only thing that's different about this is that there are a bunch of bored people who consume engagement farming content, which often make outrageous claims in order to earn money from engagement farming. This "story" is not an actual story, but it is a great example of how a mob can be summoned with some creative writing and a credulous audience.

IIRC Borderlands 3 scales the value of loot to the game's difficulty setting, with some mechanics aimed at encouraging players to join online coops at high difficulties in order to earn more valuable loot. I imagine cheats undermine that intent, and I also imagine borderlands 4 might be aiming at a pay to play scheme.

I'm guessing this EULA is being used for all their IP with the intent of taking advantage of it in the future.

I had to look this up... looks like it's a whole thing

Yes that's the problem, he doesn't know a lot of things. He also doesn't seem very keen on learning them.

He's young, so I still have hope for him but god damnit he's stupid and a potential hazard apparently.

Hey, you posted this twice. Pretty easy to do, if your initial post does not go through and you hit Reply again…

There is nuance here. Not every crack is malicious but you have to assume they all are because some of them are. Trusting a source is irrelevant. Many security products will falsely tag cracked software as dangerous just because it’s cracked, not because it found a specific bit of nasty code, and this feeds the idea that you can’t believe when people tell you cracked software is unsafe. But there are many truly bad cracks out there. When in doubt, don’t trust it.

And you should always doubt free shit.

I think it's up to the publisher, and not steam, to give the game away for free.

Man I’m tired.

lemmy yet again falls for the ragebait hook line and sinker

That's right. I'm not lying at all when I say that none of my friends care about privacy. It's actually quite frustrating.

Pretty much nailed it, yep.

A youtuber named Hellfire has been on a spree, basically discovering how fucked up EULAs have been in games for the past 20ish years... well this is all brand new news to him and and his Zoomer / Gen A followers.

There is, as of right now, literally zero evidence that Borderlands 2 has been updated with a rootkit, with kernel level anti cheat, anything like that.

The last update to its game files was 2 years ago.

This is almost certainly them updating the EULA everywhere, the precise timing of this being for some specific arcane legal and business reasons... TakeTwo runs a whole bunch more games than juat Borderlands... namely GTA V...

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Is this EULA bad? Yes.

Is it much worse than it was before, or what other large gaming companies EULAs have, and have had for... a decade+?

Maybe by a bit, but not really, no.

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Is Randy Pitchford a dumb idiot asshole?

Oh absolutely yes, but that shouldn't give people the liscense to make completely unevidenced claims about other things.

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The game does not have a kernel level AC or some kind of rootkit DRM, as many, many people are currently saying it does.

I guess gamer attention span can really hold onto a few keywords and phrases at a time.

... I say this all as person who is vehemently against kernel level AC, who has been pointing out for 4 years, that almost all existing anti cheat systems currently have at least one game that implements their AC, on linux, without using kernel level anything.... it is entirely possible to do AC without kernel level shit, even on linux, and has been for at least 4 years. EAC and BattleEye have supported linux for 4 years, but nearly no game that uses them has actually used this feature/available and offered support.

I am glad that this level of hate is finally being directed at shitty EULAs, but lets at least get our facts straight, or actually provide some hitherto unseen evidence that Borderlands has had some kind of sleeper malware in it for at least the past two years, just waiting to be activated by a TOS update to every single Take Two game.

Some software installers still ask if I want to install for all users, which require elevated permissions, or only for me, which don't. In that last option it will not prompt for elevated permissions as it will use one of my user's folders which I have already all permissions for, obviously.

It's a security measure that's half assed. People are so used to it they just click allow but don't actually look at the prompt anymore. Like I see a lot of people do with cookies on websites.

Damn, its such a shame you can't run a crack in a vm, or on linux via WINE and Proton, aw shucks.

Cry moar, I'll never see your blocked ass again

Yep, I am jumping in with you on this one.

The cell-shaded art style? Not the problem, imo.

The problem is the just astoundingly terrible writing, immensely insufferable characters, and astonishingly brain dead gameplay.

Why have weapon balance ortactically interesting scenarios or any real sense of progression in gameplay when we can just procedurally generate guns and do everything we can to make everything into roughly the same level of bullet sponge with auto levelling?

They are the lowest common denominator of co-op shooter games, made for people who enjoy bombastic sensory overload and near zero prefrontal cortex brain activity while gaming.

So that they can have a back door to as many private computers as possible.

Really ? I though, since you used a though process used in osint.
Osint is open sources intelligences, it is looking for data about something/someone in data available for all