If it meant a cheat free gaming experience I would give anti cheat representatives full permission to come into my home and sit beside me while I game and ensure I am not cheating. Hell they can bring all their friends with them. Do you know why I have no problem with Kernel Level, Invasive Anti Cheat that is Always On and monitoring, and a system that BRICKS any and ALL devices downloading 3rd party software, or plugging in third party devices designed to circumvent a systems security and "hide" from detection... ...it's a redundant question, the answer is "Because we have nothing to hide". The people most vocal against any kind of security service that actually works and gives a company the ability to hardware ban any device from accessing their services are those who have something to hide. As someone who has held "The Ban Hammer" and enacted it many times over a more than 2 decade experience in the gaming industry as a player, and as a moderator/admin, I can safely say it is always the cheaters, and cheat sellers that come into the conversation to spout the "they are taking away your privacy with the anti cheat" rhetoric as a scare tactic to get support from the uninformed, and uneducated playerbase (read toddlers being babysat by consoles and their parents PCs), and the irresponsible parents that are downloading the cheats that have more malware and system hacking programming than any anti cheat from the nefarious sites that have the power to hardware ban cheaters from their cheat selling sites and run off with all their money because they are about as educated as their toddlers. Give us anti cheat that works and the only thing we will lose is the toxic playerbase ruining multiplayer for everyone. Every gamer should have an ID like a SIN number or drivers license that identifies their system, and allows them multiplayer access, and should they cheat, they lose multiplayer access license permanently. F**k 'em. We won't miss em.

They will never do it unfortunately, they didn’t when Verdansk was cheater heaven and they won’t now because they need the PC player base for revenue growth. In addition Cronus is still possible on Xbox (and PS with some workarounds from what I understand), so console only won’t necessarily be 100% ‘clean’.

It's not only about privacy, do you think your PC won't suffer with all that bloat of services running in the background? There is absolutely no reason the anticheat should be on if the game is closed

Doesn't matter, dma board with firmware will just bypass most a/c! Give up fps or just play for fun! Cheat industry is a Multibillion dollar industry now and it ain't going anywhere!

Can you imagine how bad public lobbies would be in that situation? Might as well remove the option because they would be unplayable

@@User57655 you've misunderstood my comment. It would be Opt-Out which would mean that it is enabled by default 80-90% of players will keep it enabled. Call of Duty can matchmake all these players together if they wish. Worse case scenario is that public lobbies remain in the same state as they are now except that CoD would have highly trusted users in lobbies because they have it enabled, and extremely untrusted accounts who have it disabled. I imagine that it would still be a vast improvement on today's cheating issues and gives those who don't want or trust kernel level anti-cheat an option.