'After closing the game, the anti-cheat program continues to run in order to prevent the use of certain external plug-ins that operate when the game is closed this is to help protect the fairness of Genshin Impact for all players. 'The anti-cheat program only reads system information it does not process, save, or upload information in any way whatsover,' it said. In a blog post, MiHoYo explained its reasoning. And because Riot Games and MiHoYo are both effectively Chinese companies (Riot is owned by Tencent Games) that naturally led to a lot of concerns about user privacy and data. The Dragon has to grow up one stage to be rideable (dragon saddle needed) and another. It's a similar (albeit much smaller) controversy to Riot Games' Valorant, which also has a kernel-based anti-cheat system that caused an uproar earlier this year. After the Dragon hatched, tame it by feeding it with raw meat or orc skin. It's not uncommon, both BattleEye and Easy Anti-Cheat both use kernel drivers, but both of those systems only run when the game is open.
Without getting too into the technical jargon, that means it basically has direct access to the raw information being processed on your computer. The controversy started because Genshin Impact's anti-cheat system has kernel-level access.
