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One choice would be to price out cheaters. Have people pay a one-off fee for access to a premium tier of multiplayer servers. If you cheat, your access is pulled and you've got to go and spend more money to get back in.

Something Awful did this with their forum and it does a pretty good job at keeping spammers and other irritants out.

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Didn't CSGO have something like that with their Prime account status? From what I've seen it wasn't very effective, people will gladly spend obscene amounts of money for an unfair advantage and/or to ruin other players' fun. It might cut down on people using blatant hacks in place of more subtle ones though.

This creates a perverse incentive for the cheat detection system to have a lot of false positives.

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