Quote Originally Posted by Johners View Post
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.
What's the disinformation about it? EAC is auto installed with Lost Ark, the botting problem over there is massive and still ongoing to the point the Devs have admitted they are struggling to deal with it.

https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/bots-rema...ks-top-issues/

EAC doesn't stop cheating in many of the games it's in, it's basically like Punkbuster, a product that once upon a time was very effective, lives off name value and is completely obselete.