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Direct link to announcement instead of low effort spam blog: https://www.ubisoft.com/en-gb/game/for-honor/news-updates/4WKJhG6v6C9sbCOZkFZ6wG/ranked-faq
Relevant part:
Their announcement rubs me the wrong way. It reads as though Linux is the problem. They’re doing Linux “to ensure a safer environment” and to “reinforce a fair competitive environment”
Implying Linux is unsafe, unfair, and anticompetitive (i.e. promotes cheating).
They act as if any kernel level anti-cheat even stops a fraction of cheaters. Windows is just as unsafe and unfair in this regard. And it’s not like the already pretty small player base is majorily on Linux.
Yeah, they just want to keep installing fucking viruses on our devices and since they can’t, they throw a huge tantrum.
I wonder how much more analytics they have access to with them because I doubt they have the intention of infecting customers with actual viruses and I can’t think of any other reason they would have such a big boner for them other than harvesting more data to sell.
When I say “viruses” I refer to the anti-cheats themselves. Like, exactly because of what you said: they live at kernel-level (sometimes even at a lower level, like Vanguard), so they can literally see anything you do (and everything you don’t), and everything you have (and everything you don’t) and exfiltrate all that data without your knowledge, much less your consent, and if that’s not a virus (more specifically, a rootkit), then I don’t want to know what’s an actual virus…
C’mon, they can even brick your PC, as it’s demonstrated that for example Vanguard does:
Independent research & analysis on Riot Vanguard / kernel-level anti-cheat:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00500
PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.00500
https://gist.github.com/gmh5225/2b430b6025c8888196dd95c8557bfc6f
https://archie-osu.github.io/2025/04/11/vanguard-research.html
https://arxiv.org/html/2512.21377v1
https://blog.quarkslab.com/exploiting-lenovo-driver-cve-2025-8061.html
https://blog.quarkslab.com/exploiting-lenovo-driver-cve-2025-8061_part2.html
https://zonifer.dev/posts/byovd-kernel-driver-hardware-primitives.html
https://research.checkpoint.com/2026/btr-reforged-weaponizing-defenders-remediation-driver-as-a-kernel-operation-primitive/
https://shattered.io/vanguard-anti-cheat-2026/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel-level_anti-cheat
So then they should be forced to pull the game from Steam. Don’t sell your shit to a platform promoting Linux if you’re going to exclude it’s player base (any of itplayer base).
That and they should be forced to give refunds (not Valve, Ubisoft).
They should just make a separate server and ranking for linux players.
Incoming refunds