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> cheating is an existential threat to a good game experience online, and I really don't know of any other solution. Cheating is downstream of the trust proble
by pphysch 2y ago
> cheating is an existential threat to a good game experience online, and I really don't know of any other solution.
Cheating is downstream of the trust problem with an anonymous global "community". Anti-cheat is just an arms race, but there are other avenues to addressing it (weak "KYC", like requiring a phone number to play ranked modes).
Deadlock is potentially doing something interesting with its invite-only EA system. They're essentially building a social graph of players, which could be leveraged to identify "cheating rings"/compromised accounts and seed some kind of social reputation system within the community.
- JohnMakin 2y agoThis is a really interesting and potentially great idea, but I am fundamentally against the KYC thing because it puts me in a position where I'm at the whims of whatever BS automated moderation systems they put in place these days, which is usually quite terrible.
- pphysch 2y agoWith effective KYC, each moderation action has more weight (because user accounts have more weight), so in theory the moderators can focus more on quality than raw throughput.