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Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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Valve announced a change for Steam today that will make things a lot clearer for everyone, as developers will now need to clearly list the kernel-level anti-cheat used on Steam store pages.

In the Steamworks Developer post Valve said: "We've heard from more and more developers recently that they're looking for the right way to share anti-cheat information about their game with players. At the same time, players have been requesting more transparency around the anti-cheat services used in games, as well as the existence of any additional software that will be installed within the game."

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[-] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago

This will make filtering for games, which might run on linux much easier.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

I've been able to return some games based on news that they will be adding kernel-level anti-cheat. I'm glad Valve is doing this right.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

FYI - the owner of this site, gamingonlinux, was a mod on the [email protected] community until they were caught abusing their moderator powers. Then they deleted their account and complained on mastodon that it's stupid design that mod logs are public. [Screenshot]

Instead, here's a link to the official post https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/4547038620960934857

[-] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

That screen shot is gold. Gaming on Linux is dead to me. Thanks for sharing. It should all be public.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

What mod abuse did they do?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Excellent

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