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Meanwhile, a ~year since Riot required Vanguard, League/Valorant playerbase isn't really any smaller. If anything, it's continued to grow.

The players do not seem to mind. At all. Basically a non-issue for 99%.

I'm not terribly surprised so many here find kernel anti-cheat "unacceptable" or "ridiculous" or whatever, but there's just no there there. Microsoft has kernel access: are they selling my stuff, too ? I don't pay for Firefox: are they auctioning off my passwords? I guess it's fun to speculate; I can make unfalsifiable claims all day

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It's a bit different when it's the core functionality that you selected the vendor for.

I'd never use a closed source password manager.

I don't use Microsoft for my OS, although it happens that I do generally trust them on account of their size and reputation. They have a very strong vested interest in not getting caught doing something like that.

Spying isn't the only concern. I don't generally want to grant anything unnecessary ring 0 because of the security implications. I certainly don't trust the security practices of most game studios to any great degree.