Honestly, this seams a bit unfair. My understanding is that VAC is free or very inexpensive and pretty decent, while other options are potentially better for some cases and more expensive. Valve making a reasonable anti-cheat available is a good thing IMO.
So it existing is a good thing, it just may be the wrong fit for a given game (e.g. more popular games probably need a more intense anti-cheat).
If a game isn’t detecting cheaters well enough, blame the game, not the anti-cheat system it uses.
Even with GoG, you still pay for a license. Yes it’s better because you can get all the files for another install, but if you don’t own it why pay for it?
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Honestly, this seams a bit unfair. My understanding is that VAC is free or very inexpensive and pretty decent, while other options are potentially better for some cases and more expensive. Valve making a reasonable anti-cheat available is a good thing IMO.
So it existing is a good thing, it just may be the wrong fit for a given game (e.g. more popular games probably need a more intense anti-cheat).
If a game isn’t detecting cheaters well enough, blame the game, not the anti-cheat system it uses.
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Even with GoG, you still pay for a license. Yes it’s better because you can get all the files for another install, but if you don’t own it why pay for it?
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