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Anticheat Update Tracking

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124 points not-matthias | 1 comments | 29 Jun 25 21:06 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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nichochar ◴[30 Jun 25 17:01 UTC] No.44425550[source]▶
This was super interesting.

Unsurprisingly, I see he didn't have much to say about faceit and esea.

I think CSGO anti-cheats are a league above the rest (I'm not sure why, maybe because the scene is more competitive?)

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maccard ◴[30 Jun 25 17:39 UTC] No.44425937[source]▶
I don’t have any inside info, but I’d comfortably bet $20 that it’s phone number verification.
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reginald78 ◴[30 Jun 25 18:29 UTC] No.44426384[source]▶
F2P creates this problem. If you're eating $20-60 per account every time your anti-cheat is burned it isn't much fun anymore. But if you can roll new accounts for free, there's nothing to lose.
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1. Cthulhu_ ◴[01 Jul 25 09:54 UTC] No.44432241[source]▶
This wouldn't work with CSGO either, as it's a play-to-earn game where you can win / gamble for items that some people are willing to spend a lot of money on. See also Diablo 3 when it first came out, there was a good story about a guy that would run two dozen bots just scanning the auction house, buying stuff for in-game money and selling it for real money. Every once in a while they did a round of bans, but the author just bought new copies of the game and continued.