Quoting: scaine

Quoting: PhiladelphusWhat does "requires manual removal" in the second screenshot mean?

Might be wrong, but I think some of these tools install outside of the game itself, adding themselves to the "add/remove software" tool in Windows, or whatever that's called these days.

So you install the game, it installs the kernel-based rootkit/spyware, you later uninstall the game, but the rootkit/spyware is still there, potentially still running at startup, until you remove it.

We Linux users have it lucky in that regard. We might still install the "rootkit/spyware" element in some cases, but because it's tied to Proton emulating (shut up pedants!) the Windows environment, when we stop the game, we also stop all the anti-cheat crap. In our cases, it only gets to run when the game is running.

Exactly, I played the Delta Force demo on my Windows machine during Steam Next Fest and later uninstalled it. Noticed that the "ACE" anti-cheat was still there with 3 services (ACE-BASE, ACE-GAME and a third one). They weren't running, but it's shady to leave the anti-cheat behind after the game has been uninstalled.
(Yes, I realize that installing kernel-level anti-cheat is insecure in the first place and at least in theory renders that machine compromised.)

Regarding the store page anti-cheat disclosure:
That's a fantastic change. Guess there's no chance to make it a bright red box?

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I doubt it, but this might make it possible that "Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition" gets relisted. I don't really know details about the delisting, possible music licensing issues etc, but I think I remember reading that Gearbox considered their "20th Anniversary World Tour" version worthy of replacing the "Megaton Edition" or something dumb like that (shut up, Gearbox).

Maybe Valve could work something out with Take Two and then give "Half-Life: Opposing Force & Blue Shift" the same treatment they gave Half-Life 1 for its 25th anniversary? I don't even know if it wasn't possible before.

Or maybe all this is now even less likely because Take Two is terrible?
We'll see (or not).

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:woot::smile:
That's impressive - congratulations!

For me browsing GamingOnLinux is always a good time and somehow just feels super cozy (not sure if that makes sense to anyone else), so you're definitely doing something right.

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the actual Doomguy as a combat partner to pet you

They should make a variation where it’s a mini Doomguy and the cat pets him :woot::smile:

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PSA for Germans: You're missing out on Commandos 1 in Tier 1 if you don't use a VPN!

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Quoting: scaineI have the same annoyance when the Humble Choice comes out each month, because while Humble allows Steam linking for redeeming the games, there's no library search function. So I have to grab the title, visit steampowered.com, enter it and see if I own it. Doing that for 10-12 games... it's just a bit tedious.

The Augmented Steam extension has a feature that adds a "Search Steam Store for <marked text>" entry to the right click menu. You can't use it everywhere (for example when you can't (easily) select text on a website), but it's usually pretty convenient and saves a lot of time.
But you're right of course, 3rd-party stores should have library syncing and (or at least) links to Steam.

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