[Aerroon]

>This is a big misunderstanding, and I feel like those more technically inclined should understand that anti-cheat is a "defense-in-depth" type of approach. Where it is just one of many lines of defense. Some anti-cheats are pretty useless, and don't do much, but some actually do try and protect the game you're playing.

As a serious player of many multiplayer games I disagree. All it takes is one cheat to circumvent the protections and soon enough every cheater will use that circumvention.

Meanwhile, I, the legitimate player suffer from degraded performance, disconnections (looking at you Amazon Games - you've not been able to fix your (most likely) Easy Anticheat disconnection issue in 2 years!), or outright inability to play.

Perhaps the cheating situation would be worse without anticheats, but considering how rampant it seems to be in fast-paced or grindy games I play, I kind of doubt it.