[Feedback] Add Epic Easy Anti-Cheat to FFXIV before is too late

[redheadturk]

Why do you keep being obtuse about this? I've played many games with EAC, and other anti-cheat solutions, on a PC and they use a negligible amount of system resources. If your PC is overheating it's because your cooling sucks, not because of a tiny piece of background software in comparison to an actual game that's loading up your CPU and GPU.

There's so much misinformation in this thread about anti-cheat. Are there some bad implementations? Yes. Are there some good implementations? Also yes. Square Enix have a duty to ensure their online game is fair for the entire player base on all platforms and right now this really isn't the case. A client-side anti-cheat is an effective tool in a wider arsenal to keep a game secure. Look at Riot Vanguard in Valorant or Blizzard Warden in World of Warcraft, they both do a wonderful job and have drastically reduced the amount of cheating/botting in comparison to other games of the same genres.

Vanguard is a damned rootkit and part of why I don't play Valorant. I don't want that shit on my system. Besides, I like that SE doesn't use one because of accessibility plugins I use [Gshade being a major one, because I can use it to increase contrast so that I can actually see mechanics in order to learn them. P3 would be unclearble for me without Gshade.]

[Johners]

Vanguard is a damned rootkit and part of why I don't play Valorant. I don't want that shit on my system. Besides, I like that SE doesn't use one because of accessibility plugins I use [Gshade being a major one, because I can use it to increase contrast so that I can actually see mechanics in order to learn them. P3 would be unclearble for me without Gshade.]

Vanguard functions no differently to any other anti-cheat, it's just Riot configured Valorant to be more sensitive to any triggers. You outright can't log into the game if it's disabled (other games do this anyway) and it'll disconnect you if it senses anything obviously wrong during gameplay. As a competitive shooter this ultimately makes sense because ensuring all matches are fair is best for the health of the game.

Gshade wouldn't trigger an anti-cheat though and NVIDIA even ship a Gshade-equivalent called Reshade as part of their driver software.

[redheadturk]

Vanguard functions no differently to any other anti-cheat, it's just Riot configured Valorant to be more sensitive to any triggers. You outright can't log into the game if it's disabled (other games do this anyway) and it'll disconnect you if it senses anything obviously wrong during gameplay. As a competitive shooter this ultimately makes sense because ensuring all matches are fair is best for the health of the game.

Gshade wouldn't trigger an anti-cheat though and NVIDIA even ship a Gshade-equivalent called Reshade as part of their driver software.

You'd be surprised. Razer synapse has triggered some of the anticheat softwares [Lost Ark logged me out when I turned on Synapse because it tripped EAC]