Jump to content
  • Sign Up

25 may patch added spyware again and EU regulations

Urejt.5648

By Urejt.5648
in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Recommended Posts

SlippyCheeze.5483

SlippyCheeze.5483

Posted
Posted

@Urejt.5648 said:Just in case u missed it Anet added spyware again disguised withing new eu regulations politics acceptance.

ArenaNet will absolutely, without question, have consulted theirs, and any action they take is (in the eyes of their lawyers) within the law. If they have technology in the client to detect software used to cheat, or whatever, then they, and their lawyers, believe it is within their rights.

If you disagree I can only recommend that you find yourself a lawyer, and take the matter to the appropriate court. Nothing else, especially not another round of whining on the forums, is going to materially effect the situation.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
SlippyCheeze.5483

SlippyCheeze.5483

Posted
Posted

@Rufo.3716 said:I'm all for getting rid of cheaters but installing software to look at what programs are running on said computer isn't the way of doing it.

That is one of the many ways commercial solutions used by other games do that. Blizzard do that. Riot do that. The various popular shooters do that. Most random MMOs do it. In fact, since it is one of the simpler ways to detect people cheating, and works to catch many people.

It is also not, y'know, mandatory that it be the exclusive way this happens. ANet can use this, and they can apply other methods such as detecting impossible movement, simultaneously!

(Not that we have anything even remotely resembling proof that this has actually been done, of course. OP too busy to demonstrate anything like that...)

Link to comment
Share on other sites
mortrialus.3062

mortrialus.3062

Posted
Posted

@SlippyCheeze.5483 said:

@Rufo.3716 said:I'm all for getting rid of cheaters but installing software to look at what programs are running on said computer isn't the way of doing it.

That is one of the many ways commercial solutions used by other games do that. Blizzard do that. Riot do that. The various popular shooters do that. Most random MMOs do it. In fact, since it is one of the simpler ways to detect people cheating, and works to catch many people.

It is also not, y'know, mandatory that it be the exclusive way this happens. ANet can use this, and they can apply other methods such as detecting impossible movement, simultaneously!

(Not that we have anything even remotely resembling proof that this has actually been done, of course. OP too busy to demonstrate anything like that...)

Yeah. Almost all online games do stuff like this. Most Gw2 players whining about it now almost certainly play other games that do it. But it's a big problem in gw2 and just gw2.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
SlippyCheeze.5483

SlippyCheeze.5483

Posted
Posted

@mortrialus.3062 said:

@Rufo.3716 said:I'm all for getting rid of cheaters but installing software to look at what programs are running on said computer isn't the way of doing it.

That is one of the many ways commercial solutions used by other games do that. Blizzard do that. Riot do that. The various popular shooters do that. Most random MMOs do it. In fact, since it is one of the simpler ways to detect people cheating, and works to catch many people.

It is also not, y'know, mandatory that it be the exclusive way this happens. ANet can use this, and they can apply other methods such as detecting impossible movement, simultaneously!

(Not that we have anything even remotely resembling proof that this has actually been done, of course. OP too busy to demonstrate anything like that...)

Yeah. Almost all online games do stuff like this. Most Gw2 players whining about it now almost certainly play other games that do it. But it's a big problem in gw2 and just gw2.

I'm just pleased they rolled their own, and didn't force me to literally install kernel-mode drivers to give the anti-cheat software full control over my machine. Because cough Sony cough that plan never goes terribly wrong.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
GrubySzymek.1362

GrubySzymek.1362

Posted
Posted

@SlippyCheeze.5483 said:

@"Rufo.3716" said:I'm all for getting rid of cheaters but installing software to look at what programs are running on said computer isn't the way of doing it.

That is one of the many ways commercial solutions used by other games do that. Blizzard do that. Riot do that. The various popular shooters do that. Most random MMOs do it. In fact, since it is one of the simpler ways to detect people cheating, and works to catch many people.

It is also not, y'know, mandatory that it be the exclusive way this happens. ANet can use this, and they can apply other methods such as detecting impossible movement, simultaneously!

(Not that we have anything even remotely resembling proof that this has actually been done, of course. OP too busy to demonstrate anything like that...)

Kinda tired of reading "everyone does this so it's okay". No, it's not. But gaming industry is already used to exploiting their position for many years now.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Vayne.8563

Vayne.8563

Posted
Posted

@"Kheldorn.5123" said:

@"Rufo.3716" said:I'm all for getting rid of cheaters but installing software to look at what programs are running on said computer isn't the way of doing it.

That is one of the many ways commercial solutions used by other games do that. Blizzard do that. Riot do that. The various popular shooters do that. Most random MMOs do it. In fact, since it is one of the simpler ways to detect people cheating, and works to catch many people.

It is also not, y'know, mandatory that it be the exclusive way this happens. ANet can use this, and they can apply other methods such as detecting impossible movement, simultaneously!

(Not that we have anything even remotely resembling proof that this has actually been done, of course. OP too busy to demonstrate anything like that...)

Kinda tired of reading "everyone does this so it's okay". No, it's not. But gaming industry is already used to exploiting their position for many years now.

Kinda tired of having to deal with people cheating in games and getting over without actually playing. If you have a better solution, I'd sure like to hear it. I didn't buy a game to play with cheaters. I don't think cheating, exploiting or hacking is okay.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
GrubySzymek.1362

GrubySzymek.1362

Posted
Posted

@Vayne.8563 said:

@"Kheldorn.5123" said:

@"Rufo.3716" said:I'm all for getting rid of cheaters but installing software to look at what programs are running on said computer isn't the way of doing it.

That is one of the many ways commercial solutions used by other games do that. Blizzard do that. Riot do that. The various popular shooters do that. Most random MMOs do it. In fact, since it is one of the simpler ways to detect people cheating, and works to catch many people.

It is also not, y'know, mandatory that it be the exclusive way this happens. ANet can use this, and they can apply other methods such as detecting impossible movement, simultaneously!

(Not that we have anything even remotely resembling proof that this has actually been done, of course. OP too busy to demonstrate anything like that...)

Kinda tired of reading "everyone does this so it's okay". No, it's not. But gaming industry is already used to exploiting their position for many years now.

Kinda tired of having to deal with people cheating in games and getting over without actually playing. If you have a better solution, I'd sure like to hear it. I didn't buy a game to play with cheaters. I don't think cheating, exploiting or hacking is okay.

People are paid for offering security solutions, I see no reason to provide them for free for you :)

Link to comment
Share on other sites
ReaverKane.7598

ReaverKane.7598

Posted
Posted

@"Kheldorn.5123" said:

@"Rufo.3716" said:I'm all for getting rid of cheaters but installing software to look at what programs are running on said computer isn't the way of doing it.

That is one of the many ways commercial solutions used by other games do that. Blizzard do that. Riot do that. The various popular shooters do that. Most random MMOs do it. In fact, since it is one of the simpler ways to detect people cheating, and works to catch many people.

It is also not, y'know, mandatory that it be the exclusive way this happens. ANet can use this, and they can apply other methods such as detecting impossible movement, simultaneously!

(Not that we have anything even remotely resembling proof that this has actually been done, of course. OP too busy to demonstrate anything like that...)

Kinda tired of reading "everyone does this so it's okay". No, it's not. But gaming industry is already used to exploiting their position for many years now.

Unninstal the game if you're uncomfortable with it.Btw. if you're using Chrome, Google is gathering as much if not more data than Arena Net, if you have a smartphone, boy... I'm sure you don't have a facebook, twitter or any other social media account and post nothing on it.Anti-cheat software is the most efficient and effective way to deal with hackers and cheats. And it's probably the only one that can do live, automated tracking. All other "security experts" solutions will probably be some sort of "spyware" as you call it.If you play ANY online game you'll have that running on your computer.To be honest i'd much rather have a proprietary anti-cheat (which is what Arena Net is apparently running) than other anti-cheat programs that will invariably try to run 24/7 on your computer.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

Go to topic listing
GuildWars2.com
ArenaNet

©2020 ArenaNet, LLC. All rights reserved. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

ESRB - Teen
×
×
  • Create New...