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Redditor buys used CPU, turns out it was banned on Valorant and they are SoLreddit.com
13 points•xbmcuser•about 4 hours ago•1 comment•
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2OEH8eoCRo0about 3 hours ago
When did video games get so serious that we need to do these things? Ridiculous.
orbital-decayabout 1 hour ago
Anticheats started moving into ring0 and became rootkits in early 2000s with nProtect GameGuard, HWID checks started in mid-2000s with myAC (or even earlier? I think myAC first appeared during CS 1.5).
vjsrinivasabout 3 hours ago
I wonder if it has anything to do with the rise of e-sports and the monetary aspect of "professional" multi-player games?
2OEH8eoCRo0about 3 hours ago
That's one of my theories. Money got involved and here we are. Now games are serious business! Remember when they were just fun?
nancyminusoneabout 3 hours ago
Probably around the time individual games started to have the term "billion dollars" associated with them in some way.
bigmadshoeabout 2 hours ago
As someone who has played a decent of competitive games in the past, it is less about them being extremely serious, and more about how much people cheating ruins the fun for everyone else.

For example, a soccer Sunday league might not be that serious, but you still wouldn't want someone frequently running on the pitch with a golf club and whacking the ball into your goal with no consequences.

cronin101about 2 hours ago
Definitely not frequently, but once or twice a lifetime would provide a measurable uplift.
RicoElectricoabout 1 hour ago
When tryhards flocked to ranked games; more broadly in the world with no opportunity for the young people e-sports emerged and they saw it as one.

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