oh wow you beat me to it man. I said in another thread that hardware id's has been tried in the past like with quakelive for example. But they can be easily changed lol. I mean it is trivial. like its literally a setting. And they always worried about innocent people getting banned. So why not verify identities like the gov't then. I mean for suspicious players especially facebook will even ask for birth certificates. lol. And like you said, we talking about people with money to burn. I remember in bf3 they were paying 50 dollars a month for hack subscription with tech support and everything. lmao.... jokes....
But what I also always say is that stacking teams is the bigger problem. A cheat engine bot is not as bad if properly skill matched. But you can't have an actual mmr with the anonymity as the past 20 years have taught us. Not every stacker is a hacker, but every hacker is a stacker by nature, so if you stop all stacking you stop all hacking by virtue. and the only way to do that is to verify identities. period. Just like you would in real life. People can't change face. 10 yr olds in the park match up accordingly for a competitive match. I mean the internet is being treated as some fantasy land where the same principles don't apply, and it is delusional.
interesting what you say asbout cod's anti cheat system. But I don't buy it brother. lol. Because if they are not verifying identities, nothing matters.