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> There exist good solutions, but none of these companies have the competence or will to actually solve the problem

Could you share what some of the good solutions are? As someone who works in games, (not in anticheat) it's a stretch to say that companies arent competent enough to implement good anticheat.

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See the video above. It’s a condensed recap of Valve’s GDC 2018 presentation on VACnet. The actual presentation is worth listening to if you have the time.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ObhK8lUfIlc

I disagree on the statement that developers, publishers, and/or anticheat companies are too incompetent to implement good solutions. They have not been putting serious effort into the problem or else the state of cheating in video games wouldn’t be as bad as it is today.

I have worked on some server-side anti-cheat detection for a game recently. Competence is not a problem, it's actually very difficult to even do detection some would think is "easy".

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