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Re:Epic launches anti-cheat support for Linux, Mac, and Stea... by babypuncher on Thursday September 23, 2021 @05:04PM (#28635367)
Once you start requiring external hardware setups like that, I think the barrier to entry for cheaters becomes high enough that they become far less prevalent.

The goal of good anti-cheat should never be to eradicate it entirely, since that is obviously impossible. You just need to make it so the vast majority of players rarely encounter it.

Re:Epic launches anti-cheat support for Linux, Mac, and Stea... by temporarrry0923 on Thursday September 23, 2021 @05:27PM (#28635680)
Very true. I wasted hundreds of hours doing this, if it takes an extra hour to do, cheating would drop overnight
Re:Epic launches anti-cheat support for Linux, Mac, and Stea... by sudosysgen on Thursday September 23, 2021 @08:20PM (#28637228)
People already pay hundred of dollars for cheats. I don't think it would make that much of a difference.
Re:Epic launches anti-cheat support for Linux, Mac, and Stea... by temporarrry0923 on Friday September 24, 2021 @10:21AM (#28642798)
That's a small fraction of all cheaters. I was a dev of a free open source cheat and our download rates were insane.
Re:Epic launches anti-cheat support for Linux, Mac, and Stea... by sudosysgen on Friday September 24, 2021 @12:20PM (#28644493)
Perhaps, but that doesn't change the fact that video game cheats are a billion dollar market.