That works until all* games come with root level anti cheat. It was the same with micro transactions which people still defend despite being utter shit.
Realistically this will never be 100% but it will be enough of the mass market AAA games like CoD etc to mean that if you functionally want to play a game made in the last X number of years you will need to accept this or stop playing games altogether. I think most people will continue to play games. Most people will continue to install root level anti cheat, knowingly or otherwise, and all of them will get fucked by an exploit of that software. They may never even know about it.
This is pretty much what I’m afraid of. Even my knowledgeable friends dismissed the implications of a root kit so they could play Helldivers. Like 2 months later and they’re sick of it, and the damage is done. That game was a massive success despite what should have stopped everyone in their tracks.
That works until all* games come with root level anti cheat. It was the same with micro transactions which people still defend despite being utter shit.
This is pretty much what I’m afraid of. Even my knowledgeable friends dismissed the implications of a root kit so they could play Helldivers. Like 2 months later and they’re sick of it, and the damage is done. That game was a massive success despite what should have stopped everyone in their tracks.
That’s why piracy must continue, pirates cracking can just extend to pulling those pesky anticheats out of the single player games.
I think that’s the point that I start just eating the performance hit and running those games in sandboxed VMs where possible