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

[PetThisMiqo]

The gorgeous kitty that wrote this topic is absolutely right. The small group of toxic elitists in this game will do anything to prove themselves better than the rest of the playerbase. I don't ask Square Enix for much because they've always done a fantastic job of running this beautiful game but I must ask them to add an anti-cheat and deal with the small group of cheaters in our game.

Our game must be cleansed of the cheating elitists. Once they can no longer cheat it's very likely we won't have to hear complaints about how easy the game is to them despite the rest of the terms of service abiding players finding the difficult to be quite challenging.

[Mostly_Raxus]

ban the cheaters, the health of the game is worth more than the cheaters that are killing content and market boards..

[Davixxa]

im sure they can live without the 5 players using linux

Say goodbye to playing the game on Steam Deck then. Last I checked the Mac client also runs on Wine, so say goodbye to that as well.

Actually fuck it. Let’s roll it out on every platform! That way we can protect against jailbroken PlayStations as well.

What’s that? The PlayStation OS is a BSD fork? Ah, right.

[Davixxa]

The gorgeous kitty that wrote this topic is absolutely right. The small group of toxic elitists in this game will do anything to prove themselves better than the rest of the playerbase. I don't ask Square Enix for much because they've always done a fantastic job of running this beautiful game but I must ask them to add an anti-cheat and deal with the small group of cheaters in our game.

Our game must be cleansed of the cheating elitists. Once they can no longer cheat it's very likely we won't have to hear complaints about how easy the game is to them despite the rest of the terms of service abiding players finding the difficult to be quite challenging.

And we all saw that worked out when UNNAMED_ got caught cheating “because everyone else does it therefore we have to do it as well”.

There are plenty of reasons to not want anti-cheat in the game, and most don’t involve self reporting.

As an example, Steam Deck and other Linux players, where the very core design of the operating system doesn’t support kernel ring 0 level anti cheat as is standard in the industry.

[Davixxa]

Sure, you could do that, but as of right now you can't even play FFXIV on the latest macOS release because Python2 was moved and the wrapper-based client relies on Python2. The Mac client in general needs a proper update to actually be a proper macOS application rather than some wrapper-based piece of garbage.

The Steam thing was fine and literally just SE following by the terms of service Valve applies to all publishers selling games through Steam. The fact Square Enix weren't already doing this account linking was the problem to be honest.

It sure as hell isn’t necessary to update it to actually Be a proper binary for macOS when DXVK will often run better than a native binary (and be easier to maintain). Provided Vulkan is a thing on macOS anyhow. Apple did make their toolkit to help Windows games play nicer on Mac. And I’m saying this as a Linux user, that would normally love to have a native binary.

And even when I used Windows, the Steam changes actively hurt my workflow. The requirement to be logged into the same steam account as the linked one where before I could just pass in the -issteam flag caused problems with games I’d be playing in queue that were associated with a different account.

[Ravenblade1979]

I see op references pvp and anti cheat. Might I remind op that pretty much all pvp style games got cheats like that lol. Ppl use them for some smug satisfaction and it don't matter anyways. We don't have a esports really for our pvp.

If it's not that then you would whine about wintrading (which does happen). If you aren't enjoying pvp then don't play it. Otherwise don't expect the devs to really step up. They didn't when the James Webb cheat used in that one ultimate came to light. All they did was add it to a savage or something as a phase.

I mean, you talking same people who won't even deal with gil sellers, house sellers, stalkers, pedos and a whole host of stuff they really should.

[DragonFlyy]

The gorgeous kitty that wrote this topic is absolutely right. The small group of toxic elitists in this game will do anything to prove themselves better than the rest of the playerbase. I don't ask Square Enix for much because they've always done a fantastic job of running this beautiful game but I must ask them to add an anti-cheat and deal with the small group of cheaters in our game.

Our game must be cleansed of the cheating elitists. Once they can no longer cheat it's very likely we won't have to hear complaints about how easy the game is to them despite the rest of the terms of service abiding players finding the difficult to be quite challenging.

Not surprised this troll is the one to necro a post about PvP cheating. SE doesn't actually care enough about PvP to bother with policing it.

[Canadane]

If they put that anti-cheat I unsub, seriously.
And not because I love people cheating, but it never stops people from cheating. You said Elden ring as an example, the game where they can invade you and lock your savefile moving your character to some coordinates that make you fall and die over and over.
EAC doesn't stop cheaters, it just makes fair players have issues to play.
The best that works against cheaters is to report them, nothing more.

This would be true if SE did anything about the cheaters getting reported.
They're often too slow or too light handed on the punishments, or both.

[Eastwall]

It would also hit mod users which is going to make them lose a lot of money. So this probably isn't going to happen unfortunately