EA posted a job listing seeking an engineer to port its Javelin Anticheat, a kernel-level anticheat solution, to the Windows-on-Arm (WoA) platform. This is a significant indicator of where the industry is headed, confirming that the biggest game developers are officially porting their game engines, ...
Hey, EA, can you like, invest in making something worth defending with anti-cheat before you start investing in anti-cheat?
While we’re here, why would anyone buy a windows-on-arm device? Windows RT should have taught them this lesson that nobody fucking wants windows outside of the begrudging desktop, which is a result of the msofficification of the school education programs, which has since run its course.
I just don’t understand consumer computing it would seem.
I suspect they know something we don’t about a future XBox ARM handheld.
I think you’re taking the wrong message from this. I don’t think the author intended you to read the article and think that EA is targeting low compute ARM netbooks, I think the author intended you to come away thinking that major AAA devs are actively preparing for a landscape in which x86 is no longer the dominate desktop processor architecture/instruction set.
Regardless of how you feel about the company, Macs running Apple processors using the ARM instruction set are proof positive that ARM based cpus can replace x86 in compute scenarios higher than netbooks.
Unless you’re specifically referring to the Windows bit of it, in which case I agree.
Oh for sure, its the specifically windows bit that I’m confused by.
If you’re gonna have to learn new shit, it may as well be better shit.
What you don’t understand is that the average consumer just does not give a fuck. The ethics of their purchasing decisions are invisible to them and they can’t understand how their decisions leave an impact. This is true everywhere, but it is especially true of gamers. They will buy your slop year after year after year with no qualms.