[NotOscarWilde]

> Isn't the problem de facto solved by matchmaking? The player that aims better will quickly win more and be elevated to the level of opponents on par with them.

Matchmaking decreases the odds you meet a cheater for low rank players, and significantly increases it for higher rank players -- and since there's fewer of them due to the Bell curve, they are going to feel the cheaters that much more.

If you just rely on rank and not on anti-cheat efforts, you'd be just destroying one of the loyal cores of the playerbase, one which is also quite vocal online.

From my personal experience of thousands of hours in competitive FPS shooters on PC, there is no point in ranking where playing against a cheater becomes fair or fun.

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modern matchmaking includes streamers that pay for accounts that have purposefully lost repeatedly so they've tanked their rank so they can stream themselves pubstomping noobs.

Back in the day an obvious cheater would get booted from the server, nowadays, they literally record themselves doing it and nothing happens because it brings in an incoming to the company.

I can tell you which I prefer.