• ☆Luma☆@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    I think you’re missing the point of why they’re buying cheap game keys. In fact, it sounds like you think a ‘ban’ is something bad to these players or will stop them. If it did, I’d probably be enjoying Rust still.

    Not even VAC bans are perfect, although it typically stops the poor unfortunate kids who truly don’t know better at least.

    Minecraft anticheat won’t be perfect either. It is a necessary and functional safe guard as is usually the case with anticheat (minus rootkits, fuck those useless tools), but people will always slip through. Note what other people in this thread are saying.

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      8 months ago

      Note what other people in this thread are saying.

      Sorry, but being a developer I can tell when players are just repeating half-truths they read online.

      There’s no reason why strategies that work in any other kind of computer science shouldn’t work in gaming.

      In fact, it sounds like you think a ‘ban’ is something bad to these players or will stop them. If it did, I’d probably be enjoying Rust still.

      The difference between an attack costing $0.00 and $$0.01 is enough to reduce attack volume by orders of magnitude.

      Even just costing the attacker 30 seconds is enough to have a massive effect, which is why captchas exist.

      Game keys tend to be in the $1 - $5 range, which makes bans an extremely useful tool.