Rockstar Games' servers have been under fire from DDoS attacks causing widespread login and connectivity issues for players of GTA Online.

Rockstar Games’ servers have been under heavy fire from massive DDoS attacks in recent days, causing widespread login and connectivity issues for players of GTA Online. These attacks come in the wake of Rockstar’s recent implementation of BattlEye, a new anti-cheat system designed to crack down on in-game cheating, sparking backlash from a segment of the player base. Protesters, unhappy with the new system, have resorted to using distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to disrupt the servers, escalating tensions between the gaming giant and its community.

  • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Back in the day, there were cheats in computer magazines, a sequence of key presses that would give you loads of lives or money or bullets or whatever. I used those an loved em.

    I still use those for my Nintendo DS. My dad had an extension card for his Sega genesis that did the same.

    Cheats like that are as old as games themselves, and they’re not going to be going anywhere any time soon.

    It’s just that now we have online versions, and if you’re on PC you can edit any memory address you like, directly, with any value you like.