Damn, I hope to avoid the next step for the companies: captcha to understand if your mouse moving is real or fake.
With “anti-cheat” software here, it wouldn’t be about stopping auto-mouse-movers, but about making it hard enough that people reconsider. If I can just download a tool and be done with it, that’s a lot easier than registry hacks and whatnot. It’s an arms race, but it’s not like it’s useless effort.
(Before anyone accuses me of being pro-DRM or anti-auto-mouse-movers, I’m not. I’m just explaining the logic behind why they exist)
What else could it be, when you punish regular payers because some of the people use hacked version (and without it, they wouldn't pay it nevertheless, so hack is net positive for the company).
If I pay $60 for the game, I don't expect all kind of semi-malware shit installed on my computer, slowing it down even when I don't play the game, making it buggy and yet still having next to 0 effect on hacking groups. Its just madness.
To prevent theft from "regular people" because its easy, you have different much better and 0 intrusion methods to achieve that.
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=7212...