It’s not hard to make it very difficult for people to cheat, Valve has proved that. Design a system that’s resilient to cheating and you’ll end up with very, very few cheaters to punish.

This is another reason I stay far away from Live, it was only just a few weeks back that a friend was relating a tale to me about CoD, how he’d been kicked and banned from a server for the consensus that he was cheating. Whereas he was simply amazing.

I know the guy, and he’s clan-quality, made of hardcore gamer stuff and spends most his time playing FPS games across all formats. He was a victim of the false positive scneario, it would really stink if people like him ended up having their Gamerscore reset.

After all, is Microsoft’s system really bulletproof, or is it “bulletproof” like Blizzard’s Warden? Wherein people have been banned for running Warcraft on Linux or using a programmable keyboard (something they do allow).

It’s easy to bunch ‘cheaters’ all in a pen and hate them all, and you’ll love doing that, you’ll love doing that right up until the second you become a casualty of the omnipresent false positive scenario.