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  • My bad. Was EAC kernel level since the beginning? I thought it wasn’t when Apex was released, so maybe that changed but I can’t find anything on Google.
    Edit: Still couldn’t find anything on Google so I asked a LLM and seems like it was added after the game’s release. Ofc it may be entirely made up, as I can’t verify the info.
    Still I’m pretty sure it’s not a fault in the anti cheat, games have much wider attack surface and game dev are not generally experts on cyber sec. Plus both CoD and Apex are based on older engines who had their code reverse engineered, leaked or were public.
    An RCE was already discovered on the older MW2 so it could have been ported to the recent games.









  • Still, he’s right. Other publishers have tried and failed to bring a competitor to steam, and it’s not because valve doesn’t allow it (like Apple) but because steam is simply superior in terms of features and usability.
    Even epic with massive investment in their store hasn’t caught up to half of what makes steam great for gaming.
    I’m pretty certain if someone makes a real competitor to steam, it could dethrone it eventually. Epic isn’t hated because it’s not steam, but because they tried to buy their market share through anti competitive clauses.

    Granted, it’s harder by the year because steam has a huge head start, and users may be unwilling to switch now after spending a lot on the platform. Maybe some form of forced legal interoperability would help foster competition











  • Encore une fois je suis d’accord avec toi sur l’attitude à prendre envers la Russie.
    Mais je veux bien une vraie source quant à sa position trop amicale de la Russie. C’est pas parce qu’il ne prône pas une guerre ouverte qu’il est forcément à lécher les bottes du dictateur en face. (Edit: contrairement à certains partis d’extrême droite qui encaisse l’argent russe sans scrupules)