Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage silently added Easy Anti-Cheat

With no official notice from the developer, Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage recently added in Easy Anti-Cheat. It's not listed on the Steam page either, which appears to be against Valve's rules on this. Valve really need to clamp down on their rules to ensure developers are correctly listing things.

Originally just called Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O., the Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage rename and update came out at the end of October. There's been a bunch of complaints about it, including the silent addition of kernel-level Easy Anti-Cheat.

I've tried personally testing it on Linux with the update with Proton 9 to confirm, and I can see clearly it loads in Easy Anti-Cheat and the game itself appears to work. You can get into searching for opponents but I have been unable to verify if the online does actually connect now to another player since it never finds a match. So for now, it's listed on our dedicated anti-cheat page under a new status of waiting on reports from players.

A shame when developers choose to do such things silently, it's a slap in the face to fans of the game to be so secretive about a technical change like this.

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The game is rated Steam Deck Verified by Valve from January and Platinum on ProtonDB, but all current reports on it are older.