In my experience, getting that information internally is not that difficult. It’s more that calling that number brings with it a certain type of response that is usually not the kind of response that the average worker wants invited upon them.

True. However my video card drivers do a lot more for me than an anti-cheat system. It’s kinda ridiculous they don’t at least make it optional and lock players who opt out to casual play. Cheating in games is unimportant in the greater scheme of things. 

You’re more likely to be shot in America, you’re more likely to be incarcerated and for longer in America, more likely to go bankrupt from medical debt, more likely to catch Covid.

Yes, yes. The driver that’s needed to operate the computer is totally equivalent to a program with admin access that the PRC can update at any time to do anything they want that’s not even necessary to run a video game.

There’s a huge difference between a hardware driver and this, but ok. 

People don’t have much of a choice when it comes to government surveillance. Phones, e-mail, linkedin, etc. are all necessary for many professionals. Valorant is not. If anything you should be happy that people are willing to take a stand when it comes to something they can actually oppose.

I mean, people do get riled up over that.

“and judging by how popular LoL is and how big the closed beta for Valront is I think plenty of people share my priorities.”

Yeah, the kernel access part of this makes me go yeesh.

Thing is, no matter what they say, they’ve already lost. People are have their idea of what it is and does in their head, and people aren’t going to change that. There are such people commenting right now

it sounds like you value gaming over security of your financial data, personal communications/content/whatever else you store and use your machine for.

unless we are talking about a dedicated, gaming-only machine i think most people do not share you priorities.

There is a big difference between drivers from nvidia than a shitty game, the expectations of not fucking things up are bigger with nvidia than a game company.

Bullshit, I wont allow a multiplayer game have adminstrator rights over my computer, riot can keep their shitty game, not exposing my system to the CCP.

I was thinking of checking this game out.  Not anymore. 

It’s a rootkit. No thanks. I don’t care how secure THEY think it is. This kind of thing never ends well.

A roootkit from a Tencent owned company, what could go wrong

When I get a new program, the first thing I do is either change the settings so that it doesn’t run on startup, or uninstall. No exceptions. 

It is intrinsically human, but our society (and many, many other societies) tend to push that to the point of burnt out. Even when we don’t want to, we feel like we must, which I believe is his point.

Saving frequently is great advice. If I forget to save after doing something really good to progress my standing then the game is guaranteed to respond with:

I didn't play for the first time yesterday. I think I will probably wait for the event to be over before I jump back in again