'We have an actual person with the title of Game Master': A single Helldivers 2 dev named Joel is pulling the strings on its galactic war like an all-powerful D&D dungeon master, war will become 'more and more sophisticated over time'
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Arrowhead has noticed the "attachments" players have to planets and will make them more of a character in the future.

Arrowhead has been curating the game with a Game Master named Joel. Everyone thank Joel for giving our missions that human touch.

  • Broken_Monitor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    8 months ago

    You have essentially given kernel level access to a games company. That’s a line no software company should ever cross. Then they acknowledge they employ someone to actively manipulate the game as you play. There’s only one more small step to complete intrusion that you will never know about. But hey, do as you will, it’s your computer, your info.

      • Broken_Monitor@lemmy.worldEnglish
        33·
        8 months ago

        Dude most anti cheats dont need kernel access. This is a relatively new and very shitty practice.

        I’m trying to warn the frogs but damn they’re already boiled.

        • asymmetric@lemmy.caEnglish
          7·
          8 months ago

          Warning people about kernel level access is valid. Nobody is disagreeing with that end point. Everyone is taking exception to the wild logic you used to get there as well as the fact that you didn’t read the article.

          • Broken_Monitor@lemmy.worldEnglish
            12·
            8 months ago

            I didnt read it? Pretty sure our boy Joel can manipulate the game server wide or get granular enough to give a specific player power ups. They don’t say he’s trawling through your browser history or personal files, but you make a wild assumption that they wouldn’t when they can. When other companies are desperately mining our personal info by any means necessary I’m not about to think that opening the gates for a game company would be any different.

            Now, technically, GameGuard is owned by a separate company, INCA. Maybe you trust that the Helldivers crew isn’t accessing your machine, but do you trust INCA too?

            If GameGuard / INCA is ever compromised are you prepared to have your PC accessed by a malicious actor? You’ve handed this company the keys, so let’s hope they’re good at guarding them. You’ll only know after its happened, and these companies tend to wait a few weeks or months to announce when they’ve been breached.

            • asymmetric@lemmy.caEnglish
              2·
              8 months ago

              I’m responding only because I think your insanity is amusing, btw.

              I didnt read it?

              Clearly you didn’t read the article.

              Pretty sure our boy Joel can manipulate the game server wide or get granular enough to give a specific player power ups.

              HOW did you come to this conclusion if you actually read the article??! READ THE ARTICLE PLEASE. NB: do not confuse “Planets” with “individual matches” because they are not the same.

              the rest of your novella of a comment

              My brother in Christ. Nobody thinks this level of invasive bullshit is a good thing. You don’t have to keep explaining the part we all already know.

    • fox2263@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago

      Can you explain please for the feeble minded such as myself how one is related to the other?

      • WarmSoda@lemm.eeEnglish
        41·
        8 months ago

        We’ll you see because I know what a kernal is, I mean I’ve heard about it recently, and I also read that it’s a bad thing to have access to, I’ve equated any changes that can be made to anything in a program as horrible, too. If you give a dog a steering wheel he’ll chase the ambulance, you know what I mean? Hold on this foil hat is melting into my hair.

        -OP

        • BobGnarley@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          8 months ago

          Lol I agree he was a little alarmist about the wording but you acting like full kernal access is nothing is part of the problem he was talking about. Don’t downplay it.