Most of their audience don't want community servers. They want matchmaking.
Community servers are available in a lot of these games, for instance Counterstrike. What percentage of the playerbase plays on those?
And sure, let's say we do have community servers. You ban a player. It's free to make a new account. The player just instantly returns. You ban that account. The player returns. You ban that account, the player returns. You ban that account
..guess what happens! You haven't actually solved the problem.
The issue isn't the moderation, a good vote kick system will handle that. The issue is, how do you actually ban a cheater when there is zero cost (or extremely low cost) to create a new identity? You tie the identity to a harder to change, more expensive to chante, identifier.
I remember moderating community servers back in the day (I hosted a lot) and essentially being helpless to actually stop people from rejoining. Ban their IP, they rejoin a few moments later from another IP. Ban their account ID, they're back with another account. Whack a mole all day long until they get bored.
Most of their audience don't want community servers. They want matchmaking.
Community servers are available in a lot of these games, for instance Counterstrike. What percentage of the playerbase plays on those?
And sure, let's say we do have community servers. You ban a player. It's free to make a new account. The player just instantly returns. You ban that account. The player returns. You ban that account, the player returns. You ban that account ..guess what happens! You haven't actually solved the problem.
The issue isn't the moderation, a good vote kick system will handle that. The issue is, how do you actually ban a cheater when there is zero cost (or extremely low cost) to create a new identity? You tie the identity to a harder to change, more expensive to chante, identifier.
I remember moderating community servers back in the day (I hosted a lot) and essentially being helpless to actually stop people from rejoining. Ban their IP, they rejoin a few moments later from another IP. Ban their account ID, they're back with another account. Whack a mole all day long until they get bored.