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leetbulb ◴[] No.41862811[source]
This isn't about stopping cheaters (cheat detection). This is about stopping repeat cheaters trying to ban evade. Detecting cheats, especially nowadays with hardware cheats (DMA, etc), is an entirely different ballgame.

IMHO, one of the most effective way to stop ban evaders is to actually charge money for the game.

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kemitche ◴[] No.41862981[source]
At the time of the events in the blog, CS:GO was NOT free, and yet there were still cheaters that apparently had access to 80+ accounts.
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bob1029 ◴[] No.41863310[source]
Charging money and banning at the payment provider level can be quite effective. It isn't a perfect answer but it cuts out gigantic chunks of the problem space.

I'll take a ~99% cheat-free experience over not having any improvement at all.

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1. kemitche ◴[] No.41863427[source]
Agreed, but in this particular case the blog writer was running private servers, rather than being Valve. They had no control over payment processing etc.