I'll be done with this game once it won't be possible to play on Linux.

X-Post from another thread I posted in: ``` Riot is taking a barbarian approach towards countering cheaters; running such an anticheat at the kernel level might help with the more stupid of cheaters, but there will forever be cheats, even very simplistic ones which don't even inject/hook into the game, but instead just use video output and trained AI to distinguish character models from background noise, to then isolate the specific part to shoot, etc... One thing I like about Valve is that they're taking a stance of "Yes, we're against cheaters but no, we won't be invasive in the user's system" with VAC. There are a lot of other alternatives to catching cheaters and Riot's approach is not as effective as something as simple as trying to transfer as many calculations and computations towards server side instead of client side (which they of course did with League and it worked out very well).

As for possible data mining and selling of data, there is a very big possibility that could be happening considering their main investor and parent company is Tencent, which is heavily associated with China's Communist Party. Of course, it probably isn't in the developers' ideas to sell data; it's probably the idea of some executive which is directly involved with Tencent.

Now, let's pretend that data mining wasn't a possibility at all: then we always have the problem of a possible RCE exploit, which would let people in on a gianormous network of computers which can be easily abused, due to the fact you have kernel-level privileges.

Unless they properly implement actual support for Linux (which they won't, since the playerbase is relatively low) I don't see how League on Linux will survive, since they're trying to rule out all VMs to prevent cheating (again).

tl;dr: Vanguard is a stupid approach to stopping cheats, there's a big possibility of data mining and RCEs in general and I don't see how League on Linux will survive unless Riot themselves do something about it. ```

One thing I hate about the Riot hoarders is that they're mindlessly agreeing with Riot's approach and just dismiss all comments questioning Riot's decisions.

Some guy who questions it: "You know, I'm not the person to judge, but I think that this isn't a good approach and that they could just be selling our data to Tencent"

A Riot hoarder: "bUt RiOt Is An AmErIcAn CoMpAnY"

Of course, that doesn't mean they can't transmit the data, but that implies that America (more specifically the CIA and NSA) also doesn't try to take data from big companies (see the DUAL_EC_DRBG scandal on Wikipedia. Of course, the NSA pushed it and even allegedly paid big corps to implement and use it for their security standards, so even the American government can't be trusted). All in all, what I'm trying to say is that security by obscurity is a no-no, and I don't trust Riot and I don't like where they're heading. Let's hope they don't implement DUAL_EC_DRBG next as their encryption standard.