That's just power-fetish control freak faggotry. Happens every so often in modding communities. Someone gets a big head over their stuff getting somewhat popular and they abuse that platform sneakily force control over the users. For example, the Left 4 Dead 2 mapper who's custom map overwrites the game's UI and disables several multiplayer modes because he doesn't like them.
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it stores hardware IDs so it can blacklist people from ever opening the game
it also detects if you're using programs such as cheat engine, fiddler, etc
>>715463580 (OP) >have we reached Sonic autism?
That might actually be worse. Every time a Sonic fangame has tried some bullshit like that the dev has gotten run out of the community. The closest thing I can think of that people put up with is Ring Racers profile data being encrypted, but the devs claim that was most just for consistent identification online.
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Yeah, as soon as online play enters the ring, it's probably easier to justify some measures to prevent bad actors ruining things for everyone else.
But single player mods? lol, lmao