[thot_experiment]

Anti-cheat and DRM are not the same thing, and having community servers with admins greatly reduces the need for anti-cheat. So does not having rewards for winning other than winning.

[prvit]

Some crazy rose tinted glasses here. Back in the CS 1.6 and CS:S days community admins would only catch straight up rage hacks, most aimbots and triggerbots would fly under the radar unless caught by clientside anti-cheat.

But sure, we can pretend that cheaters don’t matter as long as it’s not blatantly obvious to all other players.

[stonith]

We used vote kick to get rid of them. The server would clear quickly if the vote failed so it wasn't a huge issue.

[prvit]

But there was no way for you to know if that person was just really good or using cheats with vaguely legit settings.