Quoting: elmapulits another thing if you find an cheater in lets say 1 in every 10 matchs.

I'm not sure what kind of games you're playing, but in some games, cheating is already at this level, and worse. Ever played PUBG or Apex?

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Quoting: elmapuldude fortinite alone has 250 millions of players, and the cheating industry move more money than the entire linux gaming industry (if we assume its 100 smaller than the windows gaming industry)
so yes, he might be right.

i cant remember where i saw the cheating numbers, i think it was one of the valve conferences arround anti-cheating.

What's your argument? He might be right because the player count is high?

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Quoting: elmapulthe malware capabilities will be limited by the size of the hole

Are you sure you understand this topic well enough to explain it to others? If you ask me, this is a very misleading simplification of how bugs and exploits work. The size of holes is important in the physical world, but that doesn't really make sense in the digital world. Any bug can lead to full permissions. It really depends.

Quoting: elmapulthat is like having an open source password.
security by obscurity DO WORK for passwords.

That's a very unfitting comparison. Locks should be open source, but the keys of course not. It wouldn't make any sense otherwise.

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Quoting: CatKillerthe absolute minimum information that you pass to the client

There are cheats in the game "Escape from Tarkov" that lets you see the content of the inventory of every player on the map. Those cheats are well known, not just hearsay. One has to ask why the frick a developer transmits the content of every inventory to every player on the map. This is either ridiculously stupid... or they are selling their own cheats. I really hope they just don't know what they're doing.

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Quoting: DribbleondoHow is he using lies in this situation? Fortnite is popular, the threat model he describes makes a lot of sense.

He is stating that his anti cheat solution works good for games with less players, but it's bad for games with many players. How does this make sense to you? How about this: "My product is bad for your health, but luckily not a lot of people are using it, so it's not really bad for most people!"

It's stupid. It's so stupid that you know he's hiding something, because we know he's not stupid and actually believes this crap. That's how I know he's lying. Sadly, as you can see, many people fall for this kind of argument tactic.

not everything he says is untrue

That's also a good example. You are of course correct that not everything he says is untrue. But I didn't say that, and I'm sure nobody ever said something ridiculous like that, so I'm not sure why you're arguing against a position that nobody expressed.

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Quoting: tpauhow about tuning the match making system in a way that rapidly pita people with a normal skill against each other?
Good people are challenged and cheaters remain mostly amongst each other.

This right there. This is how it should work. We know that there are very well working match making systems. But sadly, the game industry seems to have lost the knowledge how to implement well working systems.

Or... it's that they found out how to abuse match making to make more bucks with their in game store. Sounds ridiculous and over the top. It indeed does, and I wouldn't have believed it - if Activision wouldn't have applied for a patent with literally this functionality, described in plain English for everyone to see.

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I'm not buying it. Sweeney says a lot of stupid stuff to win an argument. Especially around Linux.

"Sweeney is not saying it's not suitable as a whole, just that Fortnite is a massive target for cheaters"

I rest my case. This is so stupid, I'm out of words. Who believes crap like that?

(I want to add that I'm not saying that Sweeney is generally dumb or doesn't have knowledge about game development. I'm just saying that he has a very strong opinion, and starts to lie his way through an argument until he thinks he won it. There are people like that, and Sweeney is just one example. He's human after all.)

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Quoting: slaapliedjeWell, the PS2 had a Linux kit for it. So there were other reasons.

They did that, of course, for the very same reason. Sony tried to export the PS2 as home computer as well.

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Quoting: BeamboomI've actually never felt Sony were much against Linux at all. Keep in mind that on their PS3 they even allowed Linux to be installed as "otherOS".

They sold the PS3 with Linux support in order to save on import tax, because it technically can be imported as "home computing device", instead of "gaming console". That's literally the only reason why they did that. Not because they "love Linux" or something.

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Quoting: Liam DaweYou really don't think it's strange to boot up previously exclusive PlayStation and Xbox games on Linux? Okay then. I have nothing more to say, because not long ago at all that was a complete fantasy.

Do you have any good explanation for Sony doing this other than profit?

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