[j245]

So many problems with this idea..

Can you imagine your child saying “Mom / Dad I need to buy a webcam to play this game”. Alarm bells will be going off immediately.

Financially speaking, every player needs to buy a webcam to play even a free to play game ?

Do you need a camera of a specific quality ? What if the light in your room is off and the object detection can’t work out where your hand is ?

Do you get kicked from the game because the sun went down and you didn’t turn on the light ?

Can’t imagine the compute resources required to pull this off. The skins in the game will probably have to cost 10x more.

This is just what comes to mind after thinking about this for 2 mins.

[mentos]

I imagine it would start with competitive leagues first and then slowly expand into mainstream if the technology proved itself.

[j245]

Can’t imagine a significant number of users ever accepting this solution, there’s too much hassle involved.

Users who are not attempting world record attempts or playing tournaments where money or fame is on the line.. in other words.. 99.99% of the user base will have no incentive to bother with webcam hand recording anti-cheat systems.

They will just move onto another less bothersome game that doesn’t require it, and that game will eat the webcam-required always recording game's market share.

[mentos]

There will always be servers for the players that don’t care about hackers to play on.

For the ones that are sick of having their games ruined by hackers they’ll angle their webcam down at their hands (or use the app on their smartphone) and join the server that supports it.