How Riot Games is fighting the war against video game hackers

Re:How Riot Games is fighting the war against video game hac... by bsder on Sunday May 04, 2025 @08:14PM (#43890769)

The issue isn't cheating--the issue is that cheaters can come back cheaply. Consequently, human moderation of cheating doesn't really work.

Given how intrusive these anti-cheats are, identity verification and login would be less intrusive.

At least with verification, when you ban a cheater, they stay banned. At that point, you can put humans in the loop.

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Re:How Riot Games is fighting the war against video game hac... by Madmallard on Sunday May 04, 2025 @08:25PM (#43890811)

Or they could tie your account to a phone number and use burner lists. You know, like DotA.

This isn’t about that at all. They want their cake and to eat it too.

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Re:How Riot Games is fighting the war against video game hac... by throw10920 on Monday May 05, 2025 @12:31PM (#43896852)

Yes. Riot doesn't really care about cheating - else they would use identity verification to permanently ban cheaters - this is about something else. They either want that kernel-level access to harvest data, or else it's about modders making mods for custom skins that cut into their revenue.

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