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Re:Valve bans 40k accounts after laying a trap for cheaters ... by Negitivefrags on Thursday February 23, 2023 @02:19PM (#34915056)
C&C Generals had a thing where if you had multiple clients with the same CD key in a multiplayer game everything would be fine for a while, but 10 minutes into the game all the buildings of the people who duplciate keys would explode.

This happened a few times at LAN parties to my friends, some of whome gave each other the game by copying the install directory across. Took us a while to work out what the hell was happening.

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Re:Valve bans 40k accounts after laying a trap for cheaters ... by bombcar on Thursday February 23, 2023 @05:29PM (#34917569)
Which is interesting because Starcraft had a specific "Spawn Install" so you could have two people play multiplayer from the same license.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spawn_installation

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Re:Valve bans 40k accounts after laying a trap for cheaters ... by t-writescode on Thursday February 23, 2023 @06:35PM (#34918392)
I wish this were more common. This is how games should be made and played, imo.
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