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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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[–] Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 107 points 2 months ago (12 children)

The fact that it’s a top 10 seller on steam deck for years and they just fucked over everyone on Linux, they deserve it. We all paid them and they completely screwed all of us. I feel so cheated. I only run Linux and I have a steam deck. I left a bad review on steam and I contacted their support from all my rockstar accounts, but it’s not enough. Battleye is compatible with Linux, they just had to send an email, but rockstar keeps lying that it’s not compatible.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Even if it's not compatible, "ok then where's my damn refund?"

Basically theft, really.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 months ago (3 children)

You can request a refund. An earlier post last week said they are offering refunds for rug-pulled players.

[–] mastazi@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

One important thing to add is that the refund is offered by Valve, not by Rockstar.

[–] hempster@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I guess Valve being the escrow, they may hold future revenue payout from sale of other R* games

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

But I don't believe at the scale of thousands of players for >1 year.
Remember, they are (supposedly) offering it even if you played a 100 hundred hours. I don't think that comes only from Valve. They'd burn bridges with publishers should they deduct it from their pay as a "You rugpulled our user base. We are now offering refunds if requested and will take it from your cut as compensation".

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago

Well at least that's good tbf.

[–] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I was thinking this, because that's what Facepunch did when they stopped Linux support. If you had played Rust at all on Linux, regardless of hours, you were eligible for a refund.

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