I mean you can do without it for LANs but that's not how the game is played 99.9% of the time. I'm skeptical that community reports and moderation would be near

I mean you can do without it for LANs but that's not how the game is played 99.9% of the time. I'm skeptical that community reports and moderation would be nearly as effective as anti-cheat software (especially with a lot of cheats being fairly subtle), especially with respect to scaling to a large player base. Also for a free to play game it's gonna be a game of whack-a-mole at best.