Rockstar Games' servers have been under fire from DDoS attacks causing widespread login and connectivity issues for players of GTA Online.

Rockstar Games’ servers have been under heavy fire from massive DDoS attacks in recent days, causing widespread login and connectivity issues for players of GTA Online. These attacks come in the wake of Rockstar’s recent implementation of BattlEye, a new anti-cheat system designed to crack down on in-game cheating, sparking backlash from a segment of the player base. Protesters, unhappy with the new system, have resorted to using distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to disrupt the servers, escalating tensions between the gaming giant and its community.

  • scutiger@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    2 months ago

    Rockstar have already mentioned that they are working to get the game working on Steam Deck, and by extension Linux in general.

    Shouldn’t be too hard since BattlEye is supposed to be compatible and there’s a BattlEye Proton runtime.

    • tiddyEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      Yet they rolled this out before that comparability works, essentially updating out some people’s ownership of the game