you know how this could all be mitigated? what if we as gamers ran our own servers instead of the giant corporations who take a billion years to respond? what if maybe instead of a giant live service slop that restricts fun in the name of having a safe environment, we are given the tools to run our own servers with our own moderation, as well as the ability to immediately ban cheaters?
No, cause that would kill the GAAS, The motto is you will own nothing and you will be happy.
But to be serious each time cheating comes up that is the most cost effective way to do, everything else will require draconian measure such as ensuring the hardware is locked to a computer including its peripherals, (and even that would just mitigate).
The problem is that even most indies do not want to do this since it would leave money on the table or it could be used for the government to mandate that they control the communication, we would not want to have those Third Reich red orchestra servers now, haha
you know how this could all be mitigated? what if we as gamers ran our own servers instead of the giant corporations who take a billion years to respond? what if maybe instead of a giant live service slop that restricts fun in the name of having a safe environment, we are given the tools to run our own servers with our own moderation, as well as the ability to immediately ban cheaters?
wouldn't that be a novel concept
No, cause that would kill the GAAS, The motto is you will own nothing and you will be happy.
But to be serious each time cheating comes up that is the most cost effective way to do, everything else will require draconian measure such as ensuring the hardware is locked to a computer including its peripherals, (and even that would just mitigate).
The problem is that even most indies do not want to do this since it would leave money on the table or it could be used for the government to mandate that they control the communication, we would not want to have those Third Reich red orchestra servers now, haha