I would never play a game that has this feature, and it seems that many people feel the same way. But when I say “many people,” I really mean just people on niche internet forums. I really don’t think the general population gives a shit at all otherwise all these popular games would already be history.
But it does make the case of VAC interesting. So many people including pro players are complaining about how Valve is basically useless when it comes to anti-cheat, and they’re correct, primarily because they don’t use kernel level detection. I recently watched this video that suggests Valve has some long term vision for their unintrusive software lol. I just can’t believe it because e-celebs draw in views, money, interest, etc. and pissing them off as well as the players buying your shit seems counterintuitive. They gotta be cooking up something rightr?
It seems to me that the players who do want a stronger anti-cheat don’t care whether or not the studio is watching them whereas those who are adverse to kernel-level anti-cheat will likely not complain about a game being full of cheaters much.
I’m curious if an open-source anti-cheat consortium would be successful, or if this is one of the few cases where security through obfuscation might be the only way to protect anti-cheat software.
Also found out that the high level CS league ESEA has kernel level anti cheat and was caught mining bitcoin lol.
Anti-cheat is about optics first and raising the bar in what successful cheating looks like second. Even if you can technically still cheat in Valorant, if it’s something like a Direct Memory Access controller to feed a second computer that actually has the cheat software, you’ve raised the bar high enough that the people that do it are either trying to make a point that they can cheat or a really small minority of people that buy it from those that know how to do it.
I mean, do you really think the GTAV script kiddies could pull off anything from the second half of this video?
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Awesome video thanks for the share.
It’s always been fascinating to me seeing how the never-ending cat and mouse game of game cheating has gone and some of the solutions presented here are incredibly inventive.