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The issue isn't cheating--the issue is that cheaters can come back cheaply. Consequently, human moderation of cheating doesn't really work.

Given how intrusive these anti-cheats are, identity verification and login would be less intrusive.

At least with verification, when you ban a cheater, they stay banned. At that point, you can put humans in the loop.




Or they could tie your account to a phone number and use burner lists. You know, like DotA.

This isn’t about that at all. They want their cake and to eat it too.


Yes. Riot doesn't really care about cheating - else they would use identity verification to permanently ban cheaters - this is about something else. They either want that kernel-level access to harvest data, or else it's about modders making mods for custom skins that cut into their revenue.




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