• northendtrooper@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    A lot of people are glancing over the fact that now a country is running this Video Game company. I’m not betting that the Saudis will: Open up old IPs, take care of labor costs, respect the players, not install spyware onto customer’s machines and report their party affiliation or any government secrets stored on said machine.

    If you didn’t trust EA being run by a private company then I bet you won’t trust EA being ran by a government.

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      4 hours ago

      Games are essentially attack vectors with kernal level access to your computer.

      The united States is looking at doing something about Chinese gaming companies, yet we are okay with handing over what is essentially a back door over to the Saudis.

      I just think its weird what malware we are okay with.

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        4 hours ago

        Games are essentially attack vectors with kernal level access to your computer.

        Some games, with very specific anticheat. Let’s not spread misinformation.

        That being said, yeah I don’t get it either - I refused to play Valorant for this reason.

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          16 minutes ago

          I mean even games without anti-cheat are attack vectors. Some 18 year old kid is going to prison because his game stole crypto.

          Also that’s pretty much what I was explaining, I just assumed everyone already knows what I’m talking about. I wouldnt say its misinformation, just lazy short hand and me expecting the audience here to be caught up enough to know what I mean.