This is so funny because rust has one of the worst cheating situations and majority of their players are windows users, and theres lots of games that have anticheat that allows linux and have notably less significant cheating problems like marvel rivals. in reality rust doesn’t take cheating very seriously because if they did they would have more server side software that detects illegitimate behaviour like tons of other games do successfully… even most popular Minecraft servers have better functioning anti cheat that is completely server side than rust has while getting kernel access to your pc. its pathetic and lazy development tbh and this entire post from them reads like such extreme cope…
Rust’s top player count was ~263,000, so .01% of players is 26. Good job stopping between 14 and 26 cheaters by not supporting Linux.
Rust’s all time peak, is 263’000. As in, the maximum number of players all logged in at the same time. It does in no way reflect the total number of players
The number of registered users, as of 2022, was estimated to 15 million. Of that, 0.01% would be 150 thousand. Which mean they’ve seemingly stopped between 75’000 and 150’000 cheaters by not supporting Linux.
Source of those numbers are https://activeplayer.io/rust/
Good job estimating the number of cheaters on Linux. You were only off by a factor of ~5000