While there are solutions, I won't comment on Valorant - free to play games are a whole can of worms the companies have nobody but themselves to blame. I will

While there are solutions, I won't comment on Valorant - free to play games are a whole can of worms the companies have nobody but themselves to blame. I will comment on a game I used to play though: Escape from Tarkov. The game costs somewhere between 40$ and 250$+tax, depending on what pack you buy. Banning cheaters for this game is literally a profit center. Every time you ban a cheater and they re-buy the game, you made at least 40$. The majority of cheating in the game was due to real money trading - cheaters would make in-game millions quickly, sell them, get banned, buy the game again at a profit. The solution to this is brain-dead simple - more manual moderation (these cheaters are very obvious to spot). What the developers did instead just killed the game.