[Arch-TK]

The reason companies seem to bother at this point is that, by implementing increasingly intrusive anti-cheat, they force cheaters to be increasingly subtle. With sufficiently intrusive anti-cheat you end up with gamers believing that the game they're playing has no cheaters.

This currently happens in at least some of the games which utilise kernel level anti cheat, as demonstrated by numerous videos on the topic which also shed light on massive communities of cheaters who just end up buying or making their own hardware based cheats.

[advael]

Gamers will believe anything a company they like tells them. The fact that these companies can attract arguably the most insufferably delusional audience of frothing bootlickers to ever walk the earth to defend them doesn't justify their decisions on a technical or an ethical level

If the explanation for why a company needs a rootkit is "they don't want to spend effort on a better solution" that means that solving cheating isn't a priority for them, and if we care about that we shouldn't buy their game. It especially doesn't mean you should accept a rootkit to buy their game

[Arch-TK]

I agree, but I am not the kind of person you need to persuade not to buy spyware.

I am just explaining the kinds of reasoning I've heard first hand coming from "gamers".

[advael]

I view self-identified "gamers" as a cult at this point. If my goal were to persuade them of anything, I'd probably fail. I'm not in marketing for a reason. But the fact that a bunch of fools believe in something doesn't make it true