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by max46 1725 days ago
this type of solution sounds good until you get hit by a false positive in a game.

happened to me on pugb and the only way I could get my account back was with a paypal charge back. It's very typical that game companies refuse to tell users what triggered it or how to avoid it in the future. For all I know, it could have been a scam from the devs.

I can live with a 40 - 60$ loss on a game, but losing the ability to play all games on protected servers forever would be really bad

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Yup it's a valid point, that's why I made sure to call out in my original comment. So many little details that would need to be done right in order to make it work.

It's an impossible task for every game studio to get all those details right, that's why I think it needs to be centralized. That way game studios can just worry about making cool games, and not having to waste resources on this endless arms race of cheating.