Agreed. To be more precise: I think the solution is small, community-run servers. This allows large, consistent groups of players to play together regularly with a much higher percentage of admins who can handle cheaters manually.

I also maintain that human judgement, can still catch things anti-cheat software is yet incapable of. Example: it doesn't matter how well hidden your aimbot is, I still notice cheaters when their accuracy is wildly out of proportion with their strategic understanding of the game.

It also seems similar to mastodon communities. Get too toxic and your server is so isolated you can’t bother people. Get too sensitive, and you block so many servers you can’t interact with anyone. Of course you could just have a server that’s for your little group(intentionally isolated) and that’s fine too.

> To be more precise: I think the solution is small, community-run servers.

That was the normal way to do things. Essentially all modern games go out of their way to prevent you from doing this.

Yep, and that's what I stick to today. I just worry how much longer until the remaining games that support this die out...

I play fortnite and marvel rivals with my family. We have lots of fun. I think this genre of game is fantastic if you play with people you know on voice comms. "Solo queuing" in these types of games is not fun for me at all, so I get what you are saying, but they are popular for a reason!

All things considered, the younger generations would likely consider this to be, excuse the language, a "boomer take".

Disregarding that the most popular game genres today are exactly the things you are saying need to be annihilated is wild to even consider. Some (well most) people enjoy it, some (less) people don't.

Fortunately for me, both young and boomer alike are capable of having bad takes.

It's going to become cloud only

I have created an AI bot that plays by itself on Xbox cloud gaming using a custom browser and a virtual joystick emulating an Xbox controller. Cloud gaming isn’t safe either :)

Well, down voters, I use it to create a virtual NPC in an open world game I play. Not for cheating, however the cheating implications are obviously visible.

Carry on with your disagreements!