Quote Originally Posted by Zsolen View Post
I'm no expert on anti-cheat software, so I do not want to comment on what can be implemented and what cannot, although I will say a lot of people seem to be parroting information on this. Parroting does not add to the discussion and often leads to misinformation. Let's only talk about thing you personally know something about, so when I read about someone's expertise or experience, I can actually take it into account. I claim ignorance here.

I've been a Ranked Feast player (dia most seasons with some plat), and I've seen the cheating first hand as well as on fellow players' streams/clips. The cheaters negatively affected the top players more, since the losses were much harder hits to take. The Special Task Force will not ban players in ranked matches, even with this evidence. On Crystal, we had a speed hacker that was never banned. He was reported by a lot of the top pvpers, myself included. Now we know SE will ban users using Twitch as evidence, but that only seems to be if it is the streamer themselves. Other Feast players were asking for a few things, from what I remember. Either check logs, accept streams/clips as evidence, or have a GM follow those in a match that have a few reports of cheating. Result: Perma the whole account and IP. Easy right? Except SE never does anything. At least let the clips be enough evidence for SE to look further into it.

There were others types of cheating as well, such as boosting and wintrading. Boosting is someone paying someone else to play their account, and wintrading can be done one of two ways. One side throws a real match to the other, or they queue up during dead time with 8 people and trade wins that way. Wintrading is actually rare on Crystal but it did happen. We did have the same person being boosted every season as well, but he annoyed people the least, since the booster still had to play. I mentioned these other types, because they can work their way into CC, like they did with Feast, so I figure it is worth mentioning. I don't think a anti-cheat program can stop that, but like I said, I wouldn't actually know.
Frankly there is no need of a degree to see the difference, launch a game with this garbage ON and launch it again without it whatever hardware you have, you'll notice a difference in term of ressources and performance if you have like me an 8 years old pc, the older the hardware is the more you'll notice it.

There are many way far more efficient to solve this issue and as i said in my first post i'm shocked to see that there are peoples that are so eager to install crippling software that won't do much about said problem on their pc.

Now the bright side is that squeenix have an hard stance on this, for now at least.