Comment by mrguyorama

Cheating was solved before any of this rootkit level malware horseshit.

Community ran servers with community administration who actually cared about showing up and removing bad actors and cheaters.

Plenty of communities are still demonstrating this exact fact today.

Companies could 100% recreate this solution with fully hosted servers, with an actually staffed moderation department, but that slightly reduces profit margins so fuck you. Keep in mind community servers ran on donations most of the time. That's the level of profit they would lose.

Companies completely removed community servers as an option instead, because allowing you to run your own servers means you could possibly play the game with skins you haven't paid for!!! Oh no!!! Getting enjoyment without paying for it!!!

All software attempts at anti-cheat are impossible. Even fully attested consoles have had cheats and other ways of getting an advantage that you shouldn't have.

Cheating isn't defined by software. Cheating is a social problem that can only be solved socially. The status quo 20 years ago was better.