I get that people want to play games with randos and 13-30 yr old basement dwellers on the internet, but the idea never appealed to me.

If the vendors said: Disable anticheat and we’ll block you from tournaments / matchmaking, I’d consider that a feature, not a bug.

If some IRL friend of mine wants to be an asshole and use auto aimers / see through walls to screw with me, then I have ways to deal with it outside the game.

On the other hand, if we both want to run some bullet hell mode + cheats with physics mods and a debugger attached, then what’s the problem?

It’s none of the game developer’s business.

I’m not sure if I am in the minority or majority, but I’m not the only one with this attitude. I suspect the set of people in this boat dwarfs the 5% market share Linux currently has.

They might even get some of us to buy their games if they added support for such a mode. How hard could it be?