Quote Originally Posted by caffe_macchiato View Post
The vast majority of online games published in the past 23 years have had anti-cheats, whether you realize it or not. FFXI and FFXIV stand alone among major online games. For everyone in this thread complaining about anti-cheats, I want you to uninstall Steam and close your account. You say you’d leave this game, so why not leave the others as well? Why are we exceptional?

By the way, we don’t need an anti-cheat to turn off plugins, but that’s a bit beyond the scope of our (and Square’s) field of expertise.
I’m pretty sure everyone already knows this, the actual argument is whether it’s actually worthwhile for the devs to pursue.

The only anti cheat I’ve ever seen that was actually any effective is the one Genshin Impact uses, and it’s also famously one of the most intrusive ones ever known. To the level where the game forces you to run it in administrator mode, there are entire conspiracy theories around the necessity of its existence considering it’s developed by a Chinese company, and hackers a while back actually reverse engineered its code for use in their malware.