alt Hacker NewsIt's a whole lot of effort to go through just so corporations can get gamers playing with strangers instead of friends, while taking the whole thing way too seriously. You need anticheat when you want competitive rankings and esports leagues, but is any of that actually any better than just playing casual games with people you know and trust to play fair?
Yes it can be? This is a very strange statement to me. Many genuinely like testing themselves against other people, improving over time, and seeing how they stack up. Competition is a pretty basic human thing, e.g. sports, chess, card games, and therefore video games. And competing with the world is a far grander challenge than those you explicitly know.
Not everyone enjoys that, and that’s fine, but acting like it’s somehow unnatural or pointless feels way off.