How game developers are tackling cheating and abusive language in online gaming

Given how for every cheat there are at the least 16 players who are clean and do not support such behaviour it is ultimately possible to reach a stage where cheating can be effectively removed from gaming an esports. Cheating and poor behaviour are common issues that all online games today deal with, and by extension even esports. Professional Valorant player Abhay ‘Xhade’ Urkude who was a part of well established Indian Valorant team Paratroops admitted to cheating. This incident has been likened to the incident of former Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player Nikhil “forsaken” Kumawat cheating in a professional game back in 2018. While game developers work hard to limit cheating and poor behaviour there are questions of privacy that the intrusive solutions have been subject to.