Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negative Game Review Useful
The output from this incident doesn&#x27;t seem useful for anyone tbh.<p>-Just deleting the comment isn&#x27;t right. But it was up for a long time so saying this renders the comment system useless isn&#x27;t true. Snuffing out speech at inception would be infinitely worse from ethics and pragmatic standpoints.<p>-&quot;2500 accounts banned&quot; here means just related to that specific game&#x27;s community, temporarily. Chances are a dozen or fewer of those might have even noticed that trying to contribute to that specific niche forum in normal situation.<p>-Comments on the anti-cheat seem just FUD. It seems to run like any other anti-cheat, leaving stuff in registry is what almost any software does even after uninstalled. And it doesn&#x27;t seem to have run unless the games&#x27; active besides due to a bug during beta. At worst the &quot;hope they change to a more reputable anti-cheat vendor&quot; kind of talk runs towards a situation where one (&quot;the&quot;?) big vendor&#x27;s anti-cheat software (which is a rootkit from a permissions standpoint) gets so juicy a target it gets hacked and million gamers get their PC bricked at worst.<p>If we wanted useful talk on anti-cheat it should first target things like Riot&#x27;s Vanguard. Other developers don&#x27;t need their anti-cheat to run as deep which, if something should cause some stress in PC users by default. This also kills Riot&#x27;s game&#x27;s accessibility on linux to the cradle, which should not be considered to only to harm Riot&#x27;s business.<p>Some also noted it as a negative that the anti-cheat has a tray icon. Developer starts to debate if the software should even have one if it just causes users to FUD themselves instead or increasing feeling of trust and control.<p>I wonder what would be the right way to handle this without resorting to pointless rigamaroles. Maybe some kind of pre-comment disclaimer from valve administrator to the comment after a short investigation to the anti-cheat solution clearing the FUD (if it was grossly breaking GDPR or such I don&#x27;t think the game or the company could stay up long)