vsrs_au wrote: »

With behaviour like that, we could be excused for thinking that ESO is behaving like the malware.

Amusingly enough, that is one of the tools that I used to use back in the day when I was chasing down malware and spyware in programs on Windows. (Edit: Blocking that tool was usually a good indicator that there was malware or spyware active)

Well, Process Explorer is an advanced system utility that can be downloaded from Microsoft. I've been using it since long before ESO was a glimmer in anyone's eye and has been part of my standard PC build for as long. It is on my system tools USB stick that I used when fixing my parent's computer.

There is little debate over whether I would choose Microsoft system utilities I've been using for decades over ESO plus whatever Anti-cheat Spyware they added. I have no interest in tricking ESO to let me run it. ESO is not the purpose of the computer, so other things are installed and running that have nothing to do with ESO.

My main question is whether I can get my money back for Gold Road, if this goes Live.

@ZOS_Kevin ... your team decided to go forward with the process table scanning and shutting down the client for Process Explorer, task manager tool available for free download from Microsoft.

As this is a system management tool that I use across all of my Windows PC, and I generally don't allow game studios to dictate how I manage my computers, I will have to stop playing on the PC platform. I don't want the game just crashing if it detects something it doesn't like, and I don't want to be accused down the calendar of a ToS violation related to "third party apps".



I will see if I can get a refund of Gold Road.

Edit: This update also appears to be interfering with the Corsair iCUE software, somehow, so it is not setting my cooling and RGB profiles properly.

Edit 2: The interference with iCUE appears to just be the game client hanging and sucking the life out of the rest of the computer.