Riot’s “anti-cheat artisan” Phillip Koskinas explains how he and his team go after cheaters and cheat developers to protect the integrity of games, such as Valorant and League of Legends.
So you’ve chased cheaters off from ring 0 and into hardware where you can’t follow them any further, but what did it cost you? I know a lot of people who’ve quit your games due to Vanguard privacy concerns, or they simply can’t play at all because they use Linux. And as Windows continues to enshitify, you’ll lose even more non-cheating players.
And even after all that, you still have cheaters, but now you can’t even detect them! You claim a 1% rate, but have no actual clue. So, whereas before you could have just matched them with other cheaters, and contained the problem that way, now you can’t even do that.
So you’ve chased cheaters off from ring 0 and into hardware where you can’t follow them any further, but what did it cost you? I know a lot of people who’ve quit your games due to Vanguard privacy concerns, or they simply can’t play at all because they use Linux. And as Windows continues to enshitify, you’ll lose even more non-cheating players.
And even after all that, you still have cheaters, but now you can’t even detect them! You claim a 1% rate, but have no actual clue. So, whereas before you could have just matched them with other cheaters, and contained the problem that way, now you can’t even do that.
I’ve got to ask, was it worth it?