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ISTR that they have some fairly sophisticated anti-cheat stuff running (esp. for WoW & Starcraft) Warden, I think it's called.

Essentially, a sort of background process monitor/snooper that tries to detect cheating behaviour and block or report it. I have no idea if that could be ported to Linux, and whether in doing so they'd:

1) Get grief for requiring it to run as root

2) Fail to detect all sorts of 'easy' cheats, ruining the online services and leaderboards for everyone

3) Interact horribly with the general fludity/flexibility of a Linux system.

4) All or none of the above.

[wladimir]

I'm told that WoW works pretty well in Wine, so I wouldn't think those are valid reasons. Warden only has to inspect the running game process, which does not require root. It also looks at the list of running processes, which doesn't require root.

AFAIK it doesn't require root/administrator on Windows and Mac either.