Product: EA SPORTS™ WRC
Platform:PC
Summarize your bug Stop kernel-level EA anti cheat in the next upcoming patch.
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? https://steamcommunity.com/games/1849250/announcements/detail/4188988499354675175
What happens when the bug occurs? https://steamcommunity.com/games/1849250/announcements/detail/4188988499354675175
What do you expect to see? No kernel level anti cheat software.
Stop kernel-level EA anti cheat in the next upcoming patch. This is a highly invasive and unnecessary back door that will be installed with the next patch. It will also stop the game from running on Linux and Steam deck. EA anti cheat runs at kernel level and will have access to pretty much everything on your computer. Please make yourself heard and tell EA that this is not what we want.
You can read here what kernel level anti cheat means and why it's bad: https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/xf1cwr/the_insanity_of_eas_anticheat_system_by_a_kernel/
I stand with this as well, EA / Codemasters did NOT state this was going to be a kernel anti cheat game at launch and its false advertising, IF they did this at launch I WOULD NEVER have bought this game, NO DiRT Rally by Codemasters has EVER had a kernel anti cheat, and so I will be requiring a FULL refund from Valve on Steam, until EA makes their Kernel anti cheat work on Linux and with the new Linux NT Kernel Sync Driver being added to the Linux Kernel V 6.10 mainline release this summer then all Win NT Kernel Anti Cheats should be able to just be run in Linux Userspace in Proton/GE-Proton/WINE Staging, and listening to the Linux devs it would be pretty impossible to create anti cheats for Linux with that in place on Linux running the WIn NT Kernel Anti Cheats that I have been reading up on and watching them talking about this. So either EA gets their act together this summer when the Linux NT Kernel Sync Driver is released in Linux Kernel 6.10 and sort this out, or I get a full refund and stop playing any games that EA wants to try and FORCE people into ONLY using Windows, this is an ABSOLUTE SCANDAL as gaming companies are FORCING people to use ONE OS by a corporation ONLY which is a MONOPOLY and I HOPE this goes against laws in the EU and all OVER the world and the big gaming companies INCLUDING Microsoft get FORCED to create this in Linux with the Linux NT Kernel Sync Driver, as there is NO EXCUSE other than to create a fascist dictatorship model of a tech monopoly into using just ONE OS.
Sort it out EA, Linux is growing now by 400% a year, and largely due to the Indian Open Source Initiative, India is the largest country on the planet, the largest democracy on earth and the fastest growing economy, and they are all switching to Linux, so there will be a boom over the next coming couple of years seeing as Microsoft is ending support for Win 10 next Oct 2025.
