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brcmthrowawaytoday at 12:03 AM2 repliesview on HN

If you were to do this today, how could you make it foolproof?


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confusedbuckettoday at 5:55 AM

COD:BO7's single-player uses dedicated servers. Terrible, yes, but that's as foolproof as it gets when it comes to piracy. They also probably did this to combat all the 'services' offering to unlock camos/cosmetics that you'd normally have to grind for; players would give someone their credentials (probably stolen later and sold to cheaters) and the person on the other side would then use a hacked client to trick the backend into thinking they completed all the challenges. With a server-side campaign, that probably got much more time consuming, I reckon.

shootoday at 12:44 AM

there isn't a market for gamers buying games on CDs these days, so it's not really a problem that needs to be solved

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