[nkrisc]

I’ve mostly just stopped playing online games with the public as anti-social sociopath cheaters have ruined the fun.

There’s one “solution” to cheating that publishes seem loathe to offer these days: server executables so people can host their own servers.

When I played BF1942, we just banned anyone we thought was cheating. Having a reputation for being actively moderated and typically cheater-free meant the server was popular and often full. When I ran a Minecraft server, I used a whitelist so it was a complete non-issue.

The only online game I still occasionally play is WoW where cheating is mostly non-existent and what cheating that does exist doesn’t typically affect the gameplay experience of normal players.