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by baby 1743 days ago
Haha, go tell that to the esport community :) honestly I feel like your comment is out of touch. You're basically telling me: don't play competitive games or games online with strangers. Some people actually enjoy these things believe it or not.
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matheusmoreira 1743 days ago
> You're basically telling me: don't play competitive games or games online with strangers.

That's exactly what I'm saying.

> Some people actually enjoy these things believe it or not.

Those people will just have to live with cheaters as well as game company malware that doesn't actually work.

It's simple. The only way to prevent cheating is for the game company to own your machine. They can't. Not on PC where we have software freedom.

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baby 1743 days ago
> That's exactly what I'm saying

Oh well, end of the argument then :)

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no_time 1743 days ago
His reply does make sense. In the age of self hosted game servers you could ping an admin on irc/xfire and have him decide if someone is following you through walls etc etc. Sure he couldn't possibly catch every player being smart about aimbots but it was a remarkably good system because unlike now, there was a human element in all stages of the conversation.

If you were wrongly accused you could just move over to a different server with little downtime instead of pleading customer support for weeks that Process Explorer is NOT a game hacking tool.

Minimal anticheat, human support from your friendly neighbourhood admin is all you need.

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matheusmoreira 1743 days ago
> pleading customer support for weeks that Process Explorer is NOT a game hacking tool

Yeah, it's such a humiliating experience. They'll never believe whatever you say anyway, your only option is to sue them. One person actually did that in my country. Can't imagine it ever happening in corporation-friendly USA.

Pay hard earned money for a game only to get banned when their idiotic systems flag our software developer tools as cheats. Looks like you have a debugger running, citizen. We permaban people for that here. What's that? A virtual machine? You naughty user.

It makes me want to cheat out of spite.

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episteme 1743 days ago
It wouldn't work these days though, cheats are much more subtle and harder to detect by eye now. If the player just shoots the head of every opponent on screen then a human being involved doesn't always help, they won't be able to distinguish between a great player and a cheat sometimes.
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baby 1743 days ago
It doesn’t make sense for competitive gaming.
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