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Redditor buys used CPU, turns out it was banned on Valorant and they are SoL

85 points · 66 comments · xbmcuser

  1. 2OEH8eoCRo0 · · focus · HN ↗
    When did video games get so serious that we need to do these things? Ridiculous.
    1. orbital-decay · · focus · HN ↗
      Anticheats started moving into ring0 and became rootkits in early 2000s with nProtect GameGuard, HWID checks started in mid-2000s with myAC (or even earlier? I think myAC first appeared during CS 1.5).
      1. Sohcahtoa82 · · focus · HN ↗
        First anti-cheat I ever ran into was PunkBuster. I don't remember when I first used it, but apparently it was released in 2000.
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