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It's not about physical vs digital games, it's about ownership (popcar.bearblog.dev)
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[–] tabular@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Invested players tolerate a level of cheating and banned cheaters often re-buy the game again. There is a monitary incentive to have some cheaters in proprietary multiplayer games.

Open source client/server multiplayer games permit endless redistribution - new server hosters can exist. A server that falls to a bad temptation can be replaced by players migrating elsewhere.