Allow users to votekick and voteban. Provide the server software for players to host their own servers and provide their own solutions to these problems.
These are tools and approaches that we had in past games and while they are not perfect, they are better than these black box invasive anticheat solutions born from a desire to avoid giving community control to users.
>Sacrificing a small percent of your playerbase in the name of having a functioning online system at all seems like a reasonable solution to me
Only if you provide a robust and empowered support staff to quickly unban and resolve false positives. That is, actually take responsibility, which is something game developers and major publishers seem allergic to.
Allow users to votekick and voteban. Provide the server software for players to host their own servers and provide their own solutions to these problems.
These are tools and approaches that we had in past games and while they are not perfect, they are better than these black box invasive anticheat solutions born from a desire to avoid giving community control to users.
>Sacrificing a small percent of your playerbase in the name of having a functioning online system at all seems like a reasonable solution to me
Only if you provide a robust and empowered support staff to quickly unban and resolve false positives. That is, actually take responsibility, which is something game developers and major publishers seem allergic to.