[rldjbpin]

very interesting side-effect of the nature of multiplayer competitive games.

to me, competitive video games are far gone like pro cycling in terms of the extent players go to feel "superior" than others.

<rant> many of these games remain broken with other things while raking in insane amounts of money, so regularly maintaining anti-cheat inside the game, if at all, is probably very low in their backlog.

the third-party ones are then used to not having to think about this, but even these providers are more focused on attracting game publishers than doing something meaningful. </rant>

personally, it should be possible for games that can be played in local multiplayer or with friends to have a way to play it without anti-cheat. don't allow competitive modes with it, but having an option will alleviate a lot of these issues.