Your payment for the game was the smallest amount of collateral that was taken from you. The cheating server situation is a similar concept to hell banning but

Your payment for the game was the smallest amount of collateral that was taken from you. The cheating server situation is a similar concept to hell banning but poorly executed. Hell banning is the status quo. If you try to play Overwatch they probably query VAC and might match make you with other people with VAC bans. It’s hard to know without working for the game studio. There is no hard technical solution to preventing cheating for many games. It depends how you describe insurmountable DRM or anti piracy measures, such as operating the only copy of the game’s backend server code. If people have no viable alternatives to playing on your remote servers, then you have an anti cheat solution. The net result is that all games, in a Darwinian way, start to look like this. Similarly on PS5, you cannot pirate their games practicably, so there is a vibrant single player business. It all goes back to: are the only valid limitations on users insurmountable DRM? If we enforced copyright infringement in this or any country it would be a different story.