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pharrington 10 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The issue of anti-cheat on Linux (2024)

It makes the cheats more valuable on the black market. I'm fairly sure the only people cheating in the major competitive games with anticheat are whales and extremely unethical pro players.

baby_souffle 10 months ago [–]

If that's the case then why not only have kernel level anti-cheat enforced for the leagues and the tournaments?

charcircuit 10 months ago | [–]

Because then a lot more people would cheat outside of leagues and tournaments.

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