That's where I think they'll go, it won't be 'mandatory' outright, but they'll do what AAA studios do and make the experience far more pleasant at least for normies when you go onto premium servers. Free servers will be barely moderated if at all and completely infested with hackers as they almost always are currently.

You want no hackers? Got to pay for it and have a bunch of staff monitoring you as well as submitting ID so you have a real name attached to your account. The normies will eat this up thinking it will be a huge net benefit to them and then they'll get banned for all sorts of silly shit or it will be some kind of overly complicated hellscape to navigate through. If the companies can ban hackers the second they see them because of the smaller playerbase spending more money, the normies will probably go for it.

That's where I think they'll go, it won't be 'mandatory' outright, but they'll do what AAA studios do and make the experience far more pleasant at least for normies when you go onto premium servers. Free servers will be barely moderated if at all and completely infested with hackers as they almost always are currently.

You want no hackers? Got to pay for it and have a bunch of staff monitoring you as well as submitting ID so you have a real name attached to your account. The normies will eat this up thinking it will be a huge net benefit to them and then they'll get banned for all sorts of silly shit or it will be some kind of overly complicated hellscape to navigate through.