@hayhor I'm more surprised that people actually cheat in that game. CoD is streamlined to be the perfect super casual shooter. Imagine being so bad at a game that requires 0 talent that you have to cheat. It's genuinely laughable.
War against cheating is hard. Everyone wants to be safe from harm, but no one likes authoritarianism.
Extra security steps means more private data shared across the internet and stored by another company: phone number, credit card data, your first pet's name etc.. If that company gets hacked, all its clients are exposed and the risk is much greater than losing a match in a game. Anti cheat has the same problem, the deeper it goes into a client the worse it will get if a hacker manages to breach their software or databases.
Besides the risk that comes with sharing more private data, security measures can take a heavy toll on performance. Games already push devices to the limit and we are still years away from having AI systems good enough to weed out cheaters efficiently, with no collateral damage. And, when they will come out, they will be very hungry in terms of computing power.
Players continuously reporting, along with "netwatch police" like Hideouts are the most efficient tools right now. I'm pretty sure that Conor Ford is not alone and it's good to keep people doing this type of work hidden from the public eye.
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