Presented as a FiveM anticheat provider, Warden operates in practice as a self-appointed policing system for the ecosystem. It maintains an opaque blacklist with no independent oversight, no published criteria, and no real appeal process, and pressures third-party servers with 24-hour ultimatums: cut ties with blacklisted communities or be blacklisted yourself. Servers are targeted not for anything they did, but for who they partner with. Multiple cases documented and archived by TopV Magazine.