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Most of multi-million-dollar games have a special team dealing specifically with public and semi-private bots.

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it might help to ensure that whatever-information-you-collect, DOES NOT leave the player’s box

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I’ve seen game companies with hundreds of thousands of dollars lost per hour of unplanned server downtime.

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deterministic debugging is by far the best thing I have seen for production debugging.

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BTW, I don’t want to say that unit testing is pointless

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I am arguing that changing design to enable testing should be avoided.

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we realize that for some of the Clients – UDP just doesn’t work because of some weird firewall between Client and Server

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there is nothing to block us (so head-of-line blocking doesn’t apply)