[thomastjeffery]

People are still playing Battlefield 4 (2013) on user-hosted servers. Right now.

The only way that "around the world" can be relevant is ping, and the best way to manage ping is by sorting a list of servers by ping.

Cheating is an arms race that no one needs to participate in. Moderation was a perfectly good workaround until major game studios decided to monopolize server hosting.

[LMYahooTFY]

What, 2000 players? 5000?

Moderating that game is multiple orders of magnitude off of major titles.

No Battlefield game is even in the top 100 of esports earnings.

[thomastjeffery]

My point is that player-moderation scales, while corporate moderation does not. The fact that there are more players on corporate moderated servers only makes this reality more significant.

[thenthenthen]

Studios could release the server files when the game is EOL…

[guizadillas]

I wouldn't measure anticheat success by esports earning