let's say you are a multi billion dollar gaming company. you are about to make a super competitive shooter which main focus is Esports and Esports content as well as player integrity (catching and preventing cheaters etc)
How important is a replay feature to you when making the game? would it be important for your whole team to make sure it is prioritize and made available asap in the game?
who made the decision at riot that a replay function should be an afterthought?
esports wise yes, very important
for casuals eh
but I agree it shouldn't have been an afterthought. I agree with what balla tweeted, he said that an imperfect system which is improved over time beats a refined system which isn't as imperfect on release (something like this can never be completely perfect)
The thing is, how often does that really happen?
VAL has had cheaters in high elo recently yeah, but when you put it in perspective with other live service games, the AC is still really good.
On top of that, replays aren't perfect, and they never can be, this means that legit shots can look like cheats and cheats can look legit, because of that ambiguity it doesn't really hold up as a system to find and prevent cheaters (which as I mentioned before, Vanguard is pretty good at)
most players are low to mid elo and that is where most cheaters are. looking at how a player react to enemy rotations or maybe having their crosshair tracking enemy behind walls are just some giveaways that the person is cheating. the AC is great but would be even better with a replay system where you can clip and report right away with hard evidence
it's less about the replay system itself and more public trust for me, With a replay system it feels as though you are adding content to satiate content creators, people who hunt cheaters and the odd few people who just think someone in their game is cheating, There have been multiple times where I've thought it in Marvel Rivals and such but I could put it to bed 100% by watching the video replay and knowing either I was or wasn't right
I mean look at all of the oldschool vac review videos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTDu6D6uejk&list=PLF6iM8IDUylNkcc-qPt5EiX9Q5Ozq254a&index=17) this is where content creators could do a service to csgo by preventing cheaters from playing and get content out of it, this is fundamentally a win win for the community for sure.
TL:DR I don't know why you wouldn't want to, Fundamentally I feel as though it's a win win.
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