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Some months back, I made a joke statement on a tf.tv post

Just another reason why F/OSS games are superior to closed-source proprietary games.

Some users then argued with me that making anticheat systems FOSS would cause more problems. I conditionally disagreed with them at the time.

Today, I visited that posted again and I laughed at the past chaos; but now I am curious: Should anticheat systems be F/OSS?

  • Thann
    4·
    3 years ago

    No.

    Anticheat software is only needed for private-servers. With FOSS games, the servers are typically community run, and the community can vote-ban users who they suspect of cheating. (like old-school CS)