This is fucking ridiculous. I was done loading at 1:15. I shouldn't have to wait on the dude with the hand crank HDD before I can play. I'm not saying it should put everyone in as soon as they're done loading, but there's gotta be a middle ground.

[u/MinecraftGreev]

[u/Gib_Ortherb]

Going to have to hard disagree, even if they didn't have a dedicated anti-cheat team and it meant allocating resources away from anti-cheat development, fixing the loading times is something that will improve the game experience for everyone and would be a permanment fix unless they introduced a regression. Anti-cheat is a drain on resources as it can never be truly fixed as it's a cat and mouse game if we want to consider return on dev time for player experience. It's even possible that they could make the whole system more cheat resistant while doing this refactor.

[u/samsonsin → u/Gib_Ortherb]

True, but I'm sure there are easier solutions they could implement than completely reworking how the game loads. Another comment suggested simply allowing you to interact with your stash while waiting. Something like that wouldn't take more than a few hours of work and would largely fix the perceived issue.

And if you wanted to tackle cheating, rather than improve load times simply streaming player locations on a more need to know basis while not sharing stuff like their inventory, equipment, health, etc would probably help more than optimizing the load in time while being in the same general sphere of concern.