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On the other hand, I cheated once (I was bored with TF2's new gameplay, and a teenager) 11 years ago , and got a lifetime VAC ban, while most die-hard cheaters
by MayeulC 6y ago
On the other hand, I cheated once (I was bored with TF2's new gameplay, and a teenager) 11 years ago , and got a lifetime VAC ban, while most die-hard cheaters would probably laugh it off and create a new account (especially now that it is f2p). Lifetime bans hardly seem proportional if you are on the receiving side.
The solution to cheating problems isn't necessarily technical, it's also social, and I think it reflects a bigger issue in our society, also present on social platforms. When anyone can interact with strangers and behave however they want, there's going to be trolls and others, motivated by the feeling that they can't be held accountable for ruining someone else's fun (or, just not realizing they are not having healthy interactions).
Lots of online platforms have developed lots of ways to cope with this, from karma systems to moderators, to social credits, to ID verification. Couldn't games take a page from that book?
- xahrepap 6y agoI had a brand new computer that i built at the start of the year. 100% new hardware. Brand new install of windows. Installed Steam, installed CS:GO. And I was unable to play because Steam flagged my system for cheating. The fix was to run some random steam exe found in the steam install directory. I guess it caused Steam to re-scan my system? Not the same level of frustration as a permaban. But I was pretty annoyed that I had to jump through hoops on a brand-new system. Really weird.
- asdff 6y agoSteam is terrible software. It's been losing track of my games lately, so every time I want to play something I have to wait around for 5 minutes or so for steam to rediscover the local game files it had already installed. Download management is terrible too, frequently coming to a crawl or stopping entirely. It's not my ISP throttling me, either, because this only happens with steam and not when I am downloading other massive things from other places.
- charcircuit 6y agoI've not experienced those issues. In fact Steam is the best at stealing internet bandwith from everything else.
- asdff 6y agoIt sucks that developers only crack down on cheating when it hurts a revenue stream. I'm sure if people figured out how to clone hats, valve would hire an entire independent team to come in and work overtime for a blank check until its fixed. Rockstar only cared about cheating in GTA5 because people were duplicating in game money that Rockstar was trying to sell you for real money. They didn't care about cheating in GTA4 because it didn't affect any potential revenue since it only affected people who had already bought the game.