Anticheat system

[GoldenRockstar]

What do you think Rockstar will do about the cheaters on GTA:O? I hope it will have a VERY good anticheat system to keep the hackers away. A good anti-cheat that comes to mind is ESEA, I hope GTA will have something similar so everyone will have a fun and fair experience..

[Troll_Hunter]

 

“A healthy GTAIV multiplayer game is really hard to come by nowadays. By healthy I mean players play for good clean fun. Every time I join a game it's either modded or hacked. When I create a custom game, some abusive d*ck joins my game and ruins everyone's fun game. I can't just kick him out unless everyone votes. Do something about this in GTAV, Rockstar.” – received via Mouthoff

 

Ever since Grand Theft Auto IV was released, we’ve continued to integrate newer and stronger methods of cheat detection and prevention for each of our games. While we have yet to reveal specifically what new anti-cheating measures we have planned for GTAV, rest assured that we’re focused on creating as level a playing field and as fair, fun (and healthy as you say) an experience as possible for everyone. There will always be some people who want to cheat but we are going to do our best to stop it. We have spent a lot of time and effort making an incredible Online experience and proper support is part of that package.

 

The above is from the last Ask and Answered so looks like they're onto the issue. I'm not familiar with anti-cheat systems/software but I would imagine Rockstar have developed their own. The cheater's pool introduced in Max Payne 3 sounds like a good idea but I still haven't played the game so not sure how effective it is. Whatever new measures are put in place for GTA Online, I just hope it works because cheaters are a royal pain in the ass.