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This Koskinas character seems a little frayed. Hyperfocused on punishing people, to the point where he's helping exploit writers to get an in, and then fervorously banning all their customers on release.

Back when anyone could run their own game server, logging was way more prevalent. Many games let you replay an entire match and it was comically trivial to playback and spot superhuman recoil control, aim snapping, wall hacks, etc etc etc. We had kickvote and Overwatch to farm this out to players in near-real time.

But instead of improving this (esp with "AI"), or just adding some financial loss to being banned, these free-to-play monsters need the lowest level system introspection. Seems a bit suss to me. "You can play my game for nothing but I need root?" No thank you.

Charge a one-off £5 for an account. 95% of your cheaters evaporate if they can't freely cycle accounts.




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