Even not as far back at BF4 we have 3rd party host-able servers.
They’re still quite active today with few cheaters because people developed server side anti-cheat plugins to monitor suspicious stats and keep a blacklist of known cheaters and their alt accounts.
The thing is that kind of solution only works on that kind of scale. If they get a false positive and ban someone that player can still play on other servers. If the developer gets a false positive and bans someone the player is shit out of luck…
Fair point, just sounds like a reason to me why we should lobby for regulation that forces game developers to provide us with the software to host our own servers
Back in the day, people would buy a server and modded themselves and cheaters got fucked.
But some how mega corpos can’t fix cheating and won’t let us have our own server.
Parasite don’t care about the gamer
Self-hosted servers with active moderation and a consistent, vetted player list? What are you, a communist?
Back in my day we only had community servers, and we liked it!
/get off my lawn
Even not as far back at BF4 we have 3rd party host-able servers.
They’re still quite active today with few cheaters because people developed server side anti-cheat plugins to monitor suspicious stats and keep a blacklist of known cheaters and their alt accounts.
hmmm as if there is a way to this with software and a bit of elbow grease…
bad company 2 to BF4, the golden are of mil shooter. cod sucks!
The thing is that kind of solution only works on that kind of scale. If they get a false positive and ban someone that player can still play on other servers. If the developer gets a false positive and bans someone the player is shit out of luck…
Fair point, just sounds like a reason to me why we should lobby for regulation that forces game developers to provide us with the software to host our own servers
One of the reasons developers do not want to give you server binaries is that it makes it easier to create cheats that isn’t just wall hacks.
this is why we need regulation for it