A good game environment without plug-ins, friendly communication among players, and tacit understanding of teamwork is something that every player wants to see, but it is not an easy task to achieve these. Most players are able to manage themselves well, but a small number of people need to be officially involved as game operators to maintain normal order in the game.
Shooters have always been the hardest hit by plug-ins, because the shooters themselves have to rely on a lot of local computing. CS:GO, PUBG, these popular games that have been operating for many years can only be eliminated in various ways to minimize the appearance of plug-ins.
However, the shooter "Valorante" launched by Fist in 2020 has become an excellent model for plug-in governance after its release.
With defense in depth as the core idea, the game tries to improve the anti-cheat program as much as possible. The anti-modification program plays a big role in this, and constantly detects, blocks, and removes cheating players to achieve the maintenance of the game environment. For example: through Vanguard cheat detection programs, hardware blocking, player reporting, data analysis, machine learning research, etc.
As early as the publicity stage before the game was launched, Fist has begun to use anti-plug-ins as a selling point, and they have indeed implemented it in the follow-up. In order to be able to sanction players for bad behavior in The Valorante game, The Fist Designers are recently testing a new program that will be used to record and analyze the voice communications of players who have been reported as abusive chats.
Of course, whether it is the control of external plug-ins or the supervision of players' bad behavior, it comes at a cost.
The existence of Valorante's anti-cheat system almost eliminates all third-party connections. CS:GO pro Oscar "Mixwell" Canellas was kicked out of the game by the anti-cheat system after charging his phone through a USB-connected computer while playing "Valorante" live.
Riot's terms of service, updated last year, pointed out that the voice review process will be activated after the player is reported, in order to investigate and record voice communications to punish the player, and its essence is to monitor the player's words. Ultimately, ensure that the behavior of the reporting target is correctly punished.
At present, the evaluation and popularity of "Valorante" in overseas regions are not low, but there is no news of the national service on the line in the short term. Whether the background monitoring system is turned on or not determines whether the player can run the game or not. Wanting a good game environment, The condition offered by Riot is the control of the player's background and privacy.
Overall, the fist approach has pros and cons, so do you agree with this approach?