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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It is not different from how the previous shared libraries worked. I guess it's there to stop cheaters from buying a single copy of the game and sharing it with throwaway accounts.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

That sort of behaviour should be easy to track if it happens more than once though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Being able to evade a ban once is already a problem. Now you need to ban every cheater twice to really ban them.