Doesn't actually stop all cheat developers. If even one person develops and sells a cheat that the kernel-level anticheat doesn't catch, then it stops 0% of cheaters from buying and using the cheat.

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Levitating 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

It's much harder to sell a cheat that requires the user to significantly alter their computers boot process. Anti-cheat just exists to inconvenience cheaters enough so that the cheats lose their value.

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pharrington 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It makes the cheats more valuable on the black market. I'm fairly sure the only people cheating in the major competitive games with anticheat are whales and extremely unethical pro players.

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baby_souffle 4 days ago | parent [-]

If that's the case then why not only have kernel level anti-cheat enforced for the leagues and the tournaments?

	▲	charcircuit 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Because then a lot more people would cheat outside of leagues and tournaments.

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Mindwipe 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

That's not really true if the exploit requires soldering on to RAM pins and executing on a second, independent machine.