• Glitchington@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    It’s something I can’t avoid, however I can limit it a bit. Elden Ring shipping with EAC is unfortunate, but I trust From Software a lot more after they took down DS3 to fix an RCE exploit. Sure EAC could turn on them, but I feel like a good publisher would be lawyering up the second that happened, especially if it resulted in their game damaging their customer’s hardware.

    Edit: not suggesting anyone should install rootkit DRM games, just sharing how I justify living with the ones I already have.

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        11 months ago

        If you aren’t playing multiplayer, it’s incredibly easy to disable.

        Even if you are playing multiplayer you can use seamless Coop and turn it off anyways

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        11 months ago

        EAC is honestly pretty standard at this point for multiplayer games. It’s used by some really big companies like Epic for Fortnight, Mihoyo for Genshin Impact (iirc), and obviously Elden Ring. I couldn’t find anything reputable saying it is a rootkit, just that it reads and monitors kernel-level processes.

        Whatever Helldivers is doing is something else.