Sony update to PS5 broke peripherals
Although the news stories don’t say of it was intentional, I’m pleased to hear today that a recent PlayStation update prevents peripherals such as Cronus from working. Other games have taken steps to...
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I made a similar thread on this topic Yesterday but that was closed as it was deemed baiting. I was just happy to see finally something being done against unfair play, intentionally or not.
What struck me most was I was playing Yesterday as normal on PS5 servers with crossplay off. To me it seemed there were a lot less players than normal. Typically I have no trouble finding a full server on Redacted Conquest but Yesterday I played several matches with lobbies almost half full of AI Bots. At the moment I did not know about this issue. I have had the PS update myself on 24th Jan, but I only learned Yesterday evening about the impact of this update to 3rd party input devices. Coincidence or not, I could not see the empty servers earlier that day being disconnected from this.
Despite I'm happy now, I fear that the companies behind these devices won't sit still and accept their products and business becoming obsolete. I think it'll be only a matter of time for them to find another way in. Just as gaming became big business so did the cheating industry unfortunately.
