Awful Anti-Cheat that doesn't even remove itself on uninstall

[TechiRef]

So after trying to do a 3v3 with my friends (unsuccessfully), I decided to go ahead and uninstall it. The anti-cheat software, EasyAntiCheat, doesn't uninstall; there's still traces left on my system. My buddies and I managed to find most of the traces, here's hoping it's all of them.

Files:
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\EasyAntiCheat.exe
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\EasyAntiCheat.sys

Registry keys:
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\EasyAntiCheat
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\EasyAntiCheat

Also, another community page recommends doing sc delete "EasyAntiCheat" to delete the EasyAntiCheat service. There is a file that gets left behind in the game install directory, but that's just a logfile. Either way, I'd watch out if you're particularly wary of Anti-Cheat software.

[OveR]

This should be pined! Dont know why even this game have anticheat in first place!

[Digital Jam]

Haha, I literally just came here to post about this software. What the hell is it doing in a beta?

Fortunately for me, I saw the software trying to be installed and did some research before I decided against it.
Apparently, in the installation T&C's, it says that they 'take no responsibility for taking screenshots of your private information and posting it on a public server'
Oh well. Decksplash sounded good but I've got plenty of other games that don't try to bundle in software that sounds like it's coded by the Russian Mafia.

Decksplash uninstalled!!!

[TechiRef]

Holy hell, I never even caught that! Sorry Bossa, but you dun goofed on this one.

[Digital Jam]

I know, right? I mean, it's all well and good having to put a piece of software like this on your machine to play professional CS:GO tournaments but it's entirely another to put it into a beta that they're trying to get as many people as possible to try.
Back to playing Rocket League, I guess....

[Roland]

Lol is this your first Steam game?
EAC has always left itself behind because it's a centralized program that loads settings for each game it works in conjunction with. That way if you have more than one game that uses it (and there are ALOT of them on Steam) it doesn't have to fully reinstall everytime

[Digital Jam]

Yes, it's obviously the first steam game any of us has ever had.
*Yawn*
"Hey, why don't you want a piece of third party software on your machine that takes no responsibility for dumping your personal information on a public server, it's what all the cool kids are doing"
Thanks for the concern, it made you look really knowledgable, especially the part where you ignored what was said and attempted to hijack the thread just to try and insult people, that was especially smart of you. Everyone's really impressed.

[Trance4Mason]

Originally posted by Digital Jam:

it's all well and good having to put a piece of software like this on your machine to play professional CS:GO tournaments but it's entirely another to put it into a beta that they're trying to get as many people as possible to try.

I agree. For a game like Decksplash where the focus is light-hearted fun, the inclusion of EAC (especially at this beta stage) feels a little out of place. I appreciate that it's a feature of benefit for the long term, and creating a beta build without it is not simply a case of turning it on/off, but we're not quite at the esports tournament stage yet.

'hey come try our fun new game - we're not saying we don't trust you but we just need to make sure you don't cheat...'

I'm not against the EAC software, I just think it could negatively affect the Decksplash 100K playerbase experiement.

[Digital Jam]

Exactly.
Maybe in five years, once I become one of the world's foremost Decksplash players, I'd put the software on my machine before a tournament (then remove it after) but I've worked in the tech industry for way too long to put anything that washes its hands of data security resposibilities in their T&C's anywhere near my machine, just for a game demo.
Corporate shills like Roland can jump in threads and call people noobs all he likes, it won't make a difference to anyone with an ounce of sense.

[zonzon le raton]

Originally posted by Trance4Mason:

I'm not against the EAC software, I just think it could negatively affect the Decksplash 100K playerbase experiement.

Maybe that if the game was gaining enough traction to reach the 100K some party poopers would make a simple cheat (unity games are not known to be secure in that matter) and ruin the game experience for everyone.
Then, the game would fail and it would be because of the absence of anti cheat.

Regardless of all that, Decksplash is on its way to the bin.

[Trance4Mason]

Originally posted by zonzon le raton:

Maybe that if the game was gaining enough traction to reach the 100K some party poopers would make a simple cheat

For a game that might get cancelled in less than a week, it's hard to justify investing a significant amount of time playing, let alone coding hacks/cheats.