From Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 to Battlefield 6, More Online Games Are Requiring Hardware Security Measures to Prevent Cheating

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Game publishers EA and Activision Blizzard continue to seek ways to stop cheating by requiring users to enable hardware-based security features.

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The only thing it's done is create a very frustrating situation for a lot of potential customers. There are already full blown cheats for BF6 working on the beta.
 
Funny how there were no cheaters when the community used to run their own servers. Cheaters were weeded out. But of course the corporation wants central control. So this is really their own **** fault.
 
Between the cheating and now the security issues, this is why I don't play these games online anymore.
 
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Niner51 said:
Between the cheating and now the security issues, this is why I don't these games online anymore.
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Fell kind of the same, with the security issues. I'll never buy a game that dictates how I have to use use my hardware like must have SecureBoot, TPM, etc. I understand hardware requirements, software requirements, but I won't buy anything that feels the need to dictate how my BIOS settings are used.
 
Wendell at L1techs take was that secure boot etc. are mostly to make it easier to track who you are and easier to ban people. It was funny that cheats showed up in BF6 within a day or so.
 
Ranulfo said:
Wendell at L1techs take was that secure boot etc. are mostly to make it easier to track who you are and easier to ban people. It was funny that cheats showed up in BF6 within a day or so.
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I used to be surprised, but now it seems to be the norm.
 
Sadly I or happily I guess. I was into competitive online shooters back before LCD monitors were really a thing. When HL mods like Rats were how you played, then eventually the mod for the HL2 source engine came along and took the FPS game world by storm before becoming it's own game.

Now I see those and I am kind of done... Could be because I'm 50... Meh... maybe.
 
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