• aluminium@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    No bro, Xbox isn’t evil anymore. Phil Spencer is a good guy and Gamepass is the “best deal in gaming”./s

    On serious note there is some legit reason to do something like this. Things like the Cronos Max or Rapid fire controllers are a legit problem in multiplayer games because they are hardware cheats essentially.

    But they could have created an API that allows games to check if a unoffical device is detected if that is the reason.

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      1 year ago

      From the article

      The problem seems to revolve around brands that haven’t acquired this licensing

      It seems to just be rent seeking? Since it’s retroactive there probably isn’t a security change and malicious hardware can spoof being licensed, though this is unclear. So it probably only hurts legitimate small brands.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah its probably rent seeking, I was just pointing out there are legit reasons to ban certain hardware.

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          1 year ago

          I get your argument, but I’d say it makes room for a legit reason to control and identify hardware, not ban it.

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            1 year ago

            absolutely, hence why I put forward the idea of an API that would allow games to stop people from joining multiplayer matches or flag their highscores if sketchy hardware is involved! For Single Player games, who cares!

            But deep down we all know that this first and formost is a money grabbing scheme from micro$oft

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      1 year ago

      So use a tool like this for call of duty multiplayer lobbies, not globally. Who cares if people “cheat” in single player games?

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      1 year ago

      As an avid modder I can tell you that’ll make it harder but not impossible, I was halfway to hotwiring an xbox controller so I could run my xbox over parsec