[CircleSpokes]

>People don’t care about the anticheat on their computer, they want it foisted on everyone else who plays, which is a sucky proposition for privacy and security minded people.

No they want games without hackers. Which kernel based anticheats helps with. Can it also impact privacy and security? Yes no doubt but so can any program running on the computer even in userspace. Remember we are talking about kernel anticheats on windows lol.

If you are really worried about it you could dual boot like many people. Either way this whole argument seems silly to me.

[kortilla]

You say “no” but then repeat what I said worded differently. When the current market for “games without hackers” is filled with kernel modules, it sucks.

[account42]

It's worth reminding that we already had a solution to the games with hackers problem: smaller community-run servers where people can get to know each other. But game companies want the centralized model so that they can stay in control of how the game is used to continuously monetize it and to forcefully retire it once they want to push a newer one.

Hackers are mainly only problem for anonymous ranked matchmaking. That's not to say cheaters don't exist without it but they are a) much less disruptive b) have much smaller reach and therefore c) are less motivated.

Like most ills being used to push anti-user technology, cheating is primarily a problem created by the industry itself.