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[–] jimbo@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Anticheat benefits the users by...reducing the number of cheaters in games. Big concept to wrap your head around, I know.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

There are several forms of anticheat. The ones that just run when the game is running, is usually fine. However, there is the Riot anti cheat which just runs all the time and isn't uninstalled when Valorant is uninstalled. That is malware.

[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

what about single player games? how does that anticheat benefit any user?

[–] jimbo@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Are there single player games with anticheat?

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

There are games with single player and multiplayer modes that come with anti cheat. I had some game a few months ago that was a Steam freebie (can't remember the name) whose anti cheat didn't install properly on Windows and it didn't allow me to launch regular single player, only mod mode.

[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I know that Resident Evil games come with Denuvo, for example.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

in the denuvo product page it is called anticheat by their creators

https://irdeto.com/denuvo/anti-cheat/

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

in the denuvo product page it is called anticheat by their creators

https://irdeto.com/denuvo/anti-cheat/

You've linked to their anti cheat which they also offer but it's not their main product. Funny that you missed that, given that you were already on their web site and https://irdeto.com/denuvo/ spells out "Anti-Piracy technology" in huge font:

[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

being sincere I just searched for denuvo anticheat to see if it was called like that.