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

submitted 1 month ago by captainkangaroo@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Buttons@programming.dev 79 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Couldn't we avoid all this by giving players the option to host and moderate their own servers?

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 month ago

That would lose a ton of profits!

[–] SSJMarx@lemm.ee 23 points 1 month ago

Tons of the problems of modern day matchmaking could be solved by this, but if players are running their own servers then they can just have their server give them the items they want, which means no more premium currency purchases for R$.

[–] lowdude@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Things like FiveM exist, which is exactly that. I’m not sure if that is at all affected by the anticheat though, I didn’t read the article.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I sure hope not cause GTA Online is trash if you want to do anything other than Free Mode. I got so sick and tired of all the loading screens, disconnects, and empty lobbies.

Even when they apparently "fixed" the loading issue, all it did was speed up the connection to Free Mode. Hosting/joining a mission still takes ages and nobody ever joins any of my games anymore so I gave up and went to FiveM full-time. If that gets shut down by anti-cheat then I'm going back to GTA IV. Cops N' Crooks is more fun than anything GTA Online has to offer, anyway.

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I've heard rockstar recruited fivem developers

[–] r4venw@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Most of them got kicked from the project

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

And owns everything now

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Rockstar has apparently bought FiveM.