Software Developers, Anti Cheat?

[gunner]

Hi guys, just wondering what are effective and powerful Anti Cheat Software developed up till now?

How exactly does the Anti Cheat Software Community look like and operate with Game Developers currently?

[Three English Letters شازام]

VAC, EasyAntiCheat, BattlEye, Punkbuster, Fairfight are some of the most effective I can think of.

And I'd imagine that the community looks like this:
"Help we've got cheaters!!!"
"Hey, I've got this amazing Anti-Cheat and I won't even charge you for it if you let us collect INFINITE DATA."
"No thank you."
"If you give us some revenue we will let you use our Anti-Cheat."
"Oh wow! Thank you for picking my game of all others to let us use your wonderful Anti-Cheat!"
"We do this for a lot of games. And we still want to collect data."
"Oh. Okay."

[Crazy Tiger]

Well, the most effective means likely would be to send someone over who will give the player a neckshot when he cheats. But I don't think that's allowed...

[Electric Cupcake]

See that one Witcher 3 quest for what a lot of gamers think of DRM and anti-cheat bull.

At this point, Denuvo isn't nearly as disruptive as it once was, but people still work to quickly crack it on the mere principle.

[gunner]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Three English Letters شازام:

VAC, EasyAntiCheat, BattlEye, Punkbuster, Fairfight are some of the most effective I can think of.

How are effective are they currently, are Hackers able to work around them?

[Crazy Tiger]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย gunner:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Three English Letters شازام:

VAC, EasyAntiCheat, BattlEye, Punkbuster, Fairfight are some of the most effective I can think of.

How are effective are they currently, are Hackers able to work around them?

It's always an uphill battle.

[.: DBM :.]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย gunner:

How exactly does the Anti Cheat Software Community look like and operate with Game Developers currently?

That's a very big question OP--whether server-side or built into the user-end client, the basic premise is very similar across the board but there are a hundred different ways to go about doing it....which programming languages are used also steers the process and, the more sophisticated the game, the more technical it gets.

Edit: this is a pretty good summary
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooking

[Three English Letters شازام]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย gunner:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Three English Letters شازام:

VAC, EasyAntiCheat, BattlEye, Punkbuster, Fairfight are some of the most effective I can think of.

How are effective are they currently, are Hackers able to work around them?

Well that question seems pretty obvious. People want to cheat and there is money to be made from creating and distributing cheats so of course people defeat them, but they usually get caught and banned because the cheats are cheap for a reason and poorly made.

[gunner]

Is there one Anti-Cheat to rule them all? I mean are Game Developers stepping up effectively to make the Most powerful Anti Cheat together for the legit gaming Community?

[Three English Letters شازام]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย gunner:

Is there one Anti-Cheat to rule them all? I mean are Game Developers stepping up effectively to make the Most powerful Anti Cheat together for the legit gaming Community?

Maybe I have an extreme bias, but I think VAC and VACnet are the GREATEST Anti-Cheat!
Maybe just because of how cool the VACnet rig is and the 1,000+ CPUs!
And I don't think we'll ever see everything come together, you have to remember that It's a business first and stopping cheating as a secondary goal usually.

[gunner]

I think Microsoft should start an Initiative to install Anti Cheat into Windows 10, but you know that is just my wishful thinking.

[Blargo]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย gunner:

I think Microsoft should start an Initiative to install Anti Cheat into Windows 10, but you know that is just my wishful thinking.

That's just more bloat.

[Three English Letters شازام]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย gunner:

I think Microsoft should start an Initiative to install Anti Cheat into Windows 10, but you know that is just my wishful thinking.

I would not like that at all. Some strange program analyzing everything I do because it could possibly relate to cheating whilst I'm not even in a game, and then every single game would need to implement it for it to work, and what about people who don't use Windows as their OS?
Also what would that ban do in the first place?

[gunner]

Can you buy Anti Cheat software for Personal use currently?

[Three English Letters شازام]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย gunner:

Can you buy Anti Cheat software for Personal use currently?

I don't think it's that kind of software where you just open it up and then it runs. There's a little more work to it than that.
And for what reason? Yes I'd imagine that you could purchase it to implement it into your product, but I don't think it's some sort of shopping cart like experience.

[gunner]

I was wondering if Anti Cheat software could be purchased to debuff cheats encountered for Online games, it would alert the Anti Cheat developer if the user comes into contact with a Cheater.