An nameless reader quotes a report from Gaming On Linux: Valve introduced a change for Steam as we speak that may make issues quite a bit clearer for everybody, as builders will now want to obviously checklist the kernel-level anti-cheat used on Steam retailer pages. Within the Steamworks Developer put up Valve stated: “We have heard from an increasing number of builders just lately that they are in search of the best method to share anti-cheat details about their sport with gamers. On the similar time, gamers have been requesting extra transparency across the anti-cheat companies utilized in video games, in addition to the existence of any extra software program that might be put in inside the sport.”
Builders with video games already on Steam can even want to do that, as it is not only for new video games developing for launch, and it is usually a part of the discharge course of now too. So Valve might be doing checks on video games to make sure the notices are there and proper. Nonetheless, it is solely being pressured for kernel-level anti-cheat. If it is solely client-side or server-side, it is optionally available, however Valve say “we typically suppose that any sport that makes use of anti-cheat expertise would profit from letting gamers know”.
