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You let the people run their own servers and kick cheaters. That's one solution which has actively been taken away over the years.

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If you look at modern games that still do this, plenty of them add additional anticheats, not less.

FiveM, modded servers for GTAV, had anticheats before Rockstar added any which already prevented Linux players. Face IT for CS2 does the same.

Yes but then how do you get people to buy your microtransactions.

People just want to click Play and get dropped in a game, not have to mess with servers.

You can just click play on a server without having to run one yourself, the enthusiasts do that. Eg: Halo CE, Armagetron, countless others.

Vehemently disagree with this. One of the reasons I loved BF4 so much were the community servers, with admins that could kick cheaters / griefers, and you enjoyed playing with the same group of folks. It was also one of the (many) reasons I was not remotely tempted to buy BF6. No servers? Not interested.

Modern games should have:

- Quickplay

- Server / Game / Match finder

- LFG - for a more detailed search

Each of these has a different use case, and a single user may make use of all of them (I include myself here). Not everyone wants to just click "play", it's very dependent on the type of game.

Helldivers 2, for example, implements the first two. Destiny/Destiny 2 has mostly the first one. Destiny on Xbox has a XBL-provided LFG functionality (but prior to that external sites were used). You really needed LFG for finding a raid group.

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