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Cheaters Sacked
by Steve Gibson, Sep 12, 2002 7:01am PDTWell you know it's hip and cool when Wired picks up on it (Thanks VE). Global banning people from playing online games is becoming all the rage. Most recently Blizzard banned close to 20,000 people for 2 weeks from playing Warcraft3 on Battle.net because of cheating, and not too long ago Valve announced that they were banning Counter-Strike players as well. This is good yes?
Few firms have been hit as hard as Blizzard, however. Cheats granting players near-infinite abilities essentially melted online play of Diablo, the company's 1997 Dungeons-&-Dragonsesque hit. Determined not to repeat the mistake, Blizzard banned 8,500 players of Diablo II earlier this year.Yup, hacks ruined Diablo2's economy as well.. and when hackers are ruining games, they are probably hurting word of mouth sales at least a bit I'd think. Hackers are poo heads.
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It's painfully obvious Blizzard would never perma ban such a large amount of accounts, not when it means they might lose money.
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If cheating is as rampant as is claimed, then shutting down cheaters is bound to decrease consumer interest in playing online.
Try this simple test. Become very good at an FPS. Play without cheats, and trounce the opposition. See how many people leave the server to find a place where they have a chance...
Of course, the industry could combat this effet by democratizing FPS gaming, making it easier, for instance, to camp, and, er, oh... They have? ;-)
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'normal' h4x0rs are l33t. w00t. w00t!!1!
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When I started programming, "Hacker" meant someone who explored the limits of the computer and software. The people writing this cheat tools are hackers in they are finding the limitations of the security of the game software. The people using these tools to break the game are cheaters, plain and simple.
Should we stop hackers from writing these tools? Honestly, I would say no. Hackers writing this tools make people who make games (such as myself) work at making them better and more secure. But I'm all for banning the cheaters who are using the tools.
The subject of this story should have been Cheaters and not Hackers since the people being banned are the ones using cheating addons/tools.
/// Zoid.
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Where those that are clever, succeed. The key might be that those that immitate (by just downloading someone's cheat) don't succeed, as immitation is not rewarded.
But then there's the problem of "meta cheating" - where you make a cheat that looks like you did a good cheat, so you get falsely rewarded :D
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Glad to see most of the people getting what they deserved. 20,000 people, man that is a lot of cheaters. Considering the number of half-life players is 75,000
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FIX YOUR !@#*&!@ GAMES!
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Everytime someone screams 'cheater' at me in a game, I can't help but think it's sad that there are those out there who think they are the best and can NEVAR be beaten.
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My parents are landlords and they always tell me, "get rid of the bad tennants and the good ones will remain. Try to keep both and you will only keep the bad tennants." I think that applies here.
Not that i agree with paying a subscription for a game you've already bought i'd just wonder if it effects the amount of cheaters
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Main Entry: Hacker
Pronunciation: 'ha-k&r
Function: noun
Date: 14th century
1 : one that hacks
2 : a person who is inexperienced or unskilled at a particular activity <a tennis hacker>
3 : an expert at programming and solving problems with a computer
4 : a person who illegally gains access to and sometimes tampers with information in a computer system
HACK
4 a : to write computer programs for enjoyment b : to gain access to a computer illegally
Main Entry: Cheat
Pronunciation: 'chEt
Date: 1590
transitive senses
1 : to deprive of something valuable by the use of deceit or fraud
2 : to influence or lead by deceit, trick, or artifice
3 : to elude or thwart by or as if by outwitting <cheat death>
intransitive senses
1 a : to practice fraud or trickery b : to violate rules dishonestly (as at cards or on an examination)
2 : to be sexually unfaithful -- usually used with on
- cheat·er noun
synonyms CHEAT, COZEN, DEFRAUD, SWINDLE mean to get something by dishonesty or deception. CHEAT suggests using trickery that escapes observation <cheated me out of a dollar>. COZEN implies artful persuading or flattering to attain a thing or a purpose <always able to cozen her grandfather out of a few dollars>. DEFRAUD stresses depriving one of his or her rights and usually connotes deliberate perversion of the truth <defrauded of her inheritance by an unscrupulous lawyer>. SWINDLE implies large-scale cheating by misrepresentation or abuse of confidence <swindled of their savings by con artists>.
That is all.
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http://www.byondscape.com/scape.dmb/content/000032/#howcheat
What one human can make, another can break.
Don't you guys miss the days of playing Doom via Kali and lanparties, even before Quake1, when there weren't even 8,500 gamers worldwide? I miss those days...
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http://www.warbucket.com/comic.php?id=76
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Hackers Teabagged
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i hate chaters/hackers, allways have...
you allways wonder, in the back of your mind, "is he cheating" ..
and if you are a server admin which i am (bf1942 retail is now up, 168.10.142.3)
you are allways looking for hackers/cheaters...pain in the ass, and you dont really know for a fact if someone is cheating unless u catch them in the act...
hackers die!