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What Malitez did would get him fired almost everywhere in the IT industry or any serious company, and not just at some employer's. Breach of trust is something that is taken seriously in the official business world because loss of trust costs a lot and can have long-lasting consequences, unless you are a really big corporate entity. For some people, this matters less; for a lot of others, this matters a lot. Humans are emotional beings by nature So I'm not surprised at the outcry we have seen

well response is still a mixed bag But on the approach to fighting cheaters: I think the best anti-cheat is giving server admins tools to monitor players and players tools to report cheaters. Creating good anti-cheat is not easy, and it's an arms race situation. While good old community oversight of their own servers is cheaper and pretty effective if admins are given the right tools, hiding anti-cheat will always be just a temporary solution.

Past examples from other communities show it often starts with slipping something "lite" and then over time evolves into full-on "I'm the law" moments on modders' part. Really, this is a story as old as modding, although this case is worse in a way since he is now on the studio's payroll

Disappointing 50% of your fanbase is no small thing

Don't quote me on this, but I think I remember reading somewhere in replies on Reddit that at some point in the past, OptiTime? triggered a false positive too, or was it another kind of incompatibility? I might be misremembering things, though

Poll closed and shows angeo will hurt itself with their choices so far

Given how popular and necessary ConfigLib is, possibly a few hundred to over a thousand players of those two mods could have been affected. Maybe some math wizard can give us probabilities? But the potential for false positives seems to be bigger than ~100 affected cheaters. I think not acknowledging it in an official statement is one of the major points of frustration for half of the community outside the case: should Maltiez stay or not

The poll results are pretty close to 50/50 among core contributors, and if we count non-contributors, it's 3300 to 2783 per op post from 5 hours ago, which means the community is really divided, and this won't be good. The hard part is measuring the impact on the VS brand's reputation. Indie studios are thought to be more trustworthy than big corporations, but that makes them more vulnerable to losing that trust, in a way

This all comes down to the breach of Trust, which is easy to lose but hard to gain back, even if they go full Big Brother on Maltiez, keeping him on the team is bad for public relations, and decreases trust even further, and ultimately hurts the game

There is a poll on Reddit that might be interesting to see how it turns out

And you are just a troll. The devs are really shooting themselves in the foot by keeping him, losing all those potential sales, damaging their reputation, and losing trust. Their response made things worse because of how bad it was

Ok that's one less worry. Though there are other issues with keeping him on, but that was pointed out hundreds of times already

You are completely missing the point. I like this game; that's why I'm urging the dropping of Maltiez from the team. The last thing I want is for devs to get into legal trouble because someone on Reddit decides to throw more fuel on the fire

I'm worried that someone affected in EU country reports it to CERT, and devs get an even bigger issue on hand, devs screwed up from negligence, but keeping Maltiez at this point is bad, not just because it's wrong, but because it might be legal liability, which would be the worst-case scenario, and the topic was brought up on Reddit, so there is risk already hopefully no one will bother but on internet you never know

It affected any mods that had some level of obfuscation, which triggered a lot of false positives with probably more than just those two mods by all accounts, it was incredibly sloppy work The official response is terribly disappointing, and the fact that he is still employed when he broke EU laws is not a good idea and may expose devs to worse consequences. It might take a single person reporting it to the authorities, and the whole thing becomes nuclear