https://steamcommunity.com/games/CSGO/announcements/detail/4257672198473442892
Remember when Valve used to be the pinnacle of gaming? All they've pushed out are a couple of half-arsed bug fixes. I also don't know too much about what their PR is like but it seems they do very little to try and interact with the community these days. I hate when developers do this, especially when it's a problem that's pretty big and they refuse to address it. It's also funny how people were bitching about ranked and how low skilled players could easily game their way up now.
Honestly I think the fix for cheating in gaming is well beyond the purview of actual devs at this point, it's a demographic issue.
Selling cheats is so profitable now, especially for the big games, that the cheat developers are very motivated these days. It seems the only way to truly stop third party interference is to have a combination of draconian, system hijacking anti-cheat software and netcode designed from the get-go around being ironclad against interference first and optimized for good performance second, nobody who enjoys games really wants that shit either.
The real issue is too many low class scum who somehow managed to derive enjoyment from cheating in a videogame have enough money and time for games now. Also doesn't help that the micro transaction monetisation, battle pass unlock dribbling progression systems all over even provide a financial/time-saving incentive to cheat. If the demand dwindled the cheat makers wouldn't have so many resources to devote to ruining games. The least intrusive solution is region locking your games and making sure the immoral members of your domestic community are too busy trying to survive being ostracized to have disposable cash for a gaming rig, a cheat subscription and multiple copies of the same game.
Specifically, region locking China, the part of the world where cheating is a normal part of their culture (thank Chairman Mao for that). But that is the one thing that devs won't do because the Chinese video game market is still far too lucrative even after further restrictions by the CCP, and they would rather keep sucking up those sweet Renminbi Yuans than even begin considering the possibility of appeasing their domestic audience.
Just about every big multiplayer game (whether PUBG, Fortnite, CoD, you name it) has this problem.
Just let them have their own servers isolated away from ours.
China, Southeast Asia in general, Brazil (or South America in general), Russia (or Eastern Europe in general) all have to go.
No, just China. I don't know how else to convey the scale we are talking about here, but Chinese cheat in games disproportionately in the same way US blacks commit crimes disproportionately. It's not even close.
Honestly curious: how do you know that? Not as a gotcha, I genuenly find the topic interesting and want to read up more on it.
You're either sick in the head or south korean.
Nobody is going to do time over a programming nerd.
Eye for an Eye. They enjoy hurting other people, they should get hurt in turn. If one of them ruins 50k rounds with a successful cheat at 15 minutes a round, that's 85 years equivalent lost. So take 85 years off of their life.
You take gaming too seriously.
If Boeing can do it why can't Valve do it?
and play them on every startup
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What the hell, Cato? You seem further than actual Cato.
Cato the Elder bragged that he had destroyed more towns in Hispania than he had spent days in that country. I am no where near as extreme as my namesake.
Point taken.
I actually find myself agreeing with you, community operated servers and providing more options for private sessions would definitely help solve this big time as others often suggest on this site. I mean if we're going to talk about absolutely scum of the earth 'gamers' GTA V online is a classic example of what happens when low IQ retards invade a game and just wreck everything.
It's all gotten worse now because of the script kiddies invading and buying cheats to go fuck up the experience for everybody else. I like referencing GTA V because it's such brilliant example of shameless behaviour that you're describing. Racing is one of these things that frequently pops up in normie tube as the thing to do in GTA, what happens if you log in even as an account with good history? You immediately get rammed five seconds after starting, which is how you know you've got a bunch of 10 year olds and trolls on your hands.
I think you could still make a multiplayer game these days and make it good with matchmaking. However the developers have no interest in doing any kind of decent design and fixing all these exploits at the very least and removing ways for retards to fuck up matches because all they care about is getting their next RL Lamborghini with all these kids endlessly buying shark cards to power level their way through the game.
Especially with 'team based' multiplayer games I'm banning myself from even playing them now even CS:2 because of the level of retard you'll encounter on these games. If they don't cater to solo players I'm simply done, never again, I can absolutely see why as a result co-op gaming has become more of a thing, I get it.