How anti-cheats catch cheaters using memory heuristics
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#2Serious question for you gamers out there:
Why would a person go to such great lengths to cheat at a video game? Is there a monetary incentive? Otherwise, it seems like a lot of effort just to increase one's standing on a leader board.
Re: How anti-cheats catch cheaters using memory heuristics
#3Serious question for you gamers out there: Why would a person go to such great lengths to cheat at a video game? Is there a monetary incentive? Otherwise, it seems like a lot of effort just to increase one's standing on a leader board.
Young men seem driven to compete for little reward. There's no need to try to intellectualize it.
Re: How anti-cheats catch cheaters using memory heuristics
#4Serious question for you gamers out there: Why would a person go to such great lengths to cheat at a video game? Is there a monetary incentive? Otherwise, it seems like a lot of effort just to increase one's standing on a leader board.
As someone who likes to cheat at single player video games, the cheating itself is a lot of fun (at least it was until I started doing reverse engineering professionally; now it just feels like work).
My sense of the multiplayer cheating scene (which I never looked at closely) is that most of the cheaters use tools developed by others. So, it seems possible that the people doing the bulk of the work are motivated in part by the technical challenge (including the cat and mouse aspect of it), and the social proof that comes along with sharing their cheats.
Once the cheats are out there, using them has a much lower barrier to entry.
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#5Serious question for you gamers out there: Why would a person go to such great lengths to cheat at a video game? Is there a monetary incentive? Otherwise, it seems like a lot of effort just to increase one's standing on a leader board.
Sense of social status, cheating artificially increases your rank. No one knows your cheating, so you get all the respect.
Leaderboards are dopamine clickbait for trying to improve.
Why do billionaires want to richer?
Re: How anti-cheats catch cheaters using memory heuristics
#6Serious question for you gamers out there: Why would a person go to such great lengths to cheat at a video game? Is there a monetary incentive? Otherwise, it seems like a lot of effort just to increase one's standing on a leader board.
Yes, especially in multiplayer focused games, if there's a way to cheat there will be cheaters.
Also people who profit from the situations and sell cheating tools to other players.
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#7Serious question for you gamers out there: Why would a person go to such great lengths to cheat at a video game? Is there a monetary incentive? Otherwise, it seems like a lot of effort just to increase one's standing on a leader board.
Playing by the rules favors those who the rules were set up to benefit. Are you poor, "ugly", unlucky, "stupid", uncoordinated? Cheating is your chance to win when our "just" society tells you you must lose. The transgression itself feels right and good.
Re: How anti-cheats catch cheaters using memory heuristics
#8Serious question for you gamers out there: Why would a person go to such great lengths to cheat at a video game? Is there a monetary incentive? Otherwise, it seems like a lot of effort just to increase one's standing on a leader board.
Cheating for gamers is like hacking for programmers, except you get points and there's a leaderboard.
Re: How anti-cheats catch cheaters using memory heuristics
#9Serious question for you gamers out there: Why would a person go to such great lengths to cheat at a video game? Is there a monetary incentive? Otherwise, it seems like a lot of effort just to increase one's standing on a leader board.
As someone who likes to cheat at single player video games, the cheating itself is a lot of fun (at least it was until I started doing reverse engineering professionally; now it just feels like work). My sense of the multiplayer cheating scene (which I never looked at closely) is that most of the cheaters use tools developed by others. So, it seems possible that the people doing the bulk of the work are motivated in…
I would think money plays a big role too. Back when Apex Legends exploded into the scene with the initial user base, selling a hack for 10 a pop would make a lot of money.
Re: How anti-cheats catch cheaters using memory heuristics
#10Serious question for you gamers out there: Why would a person go to such great lengths to cheat at a video game? Is there a monetary incentive? Otherwise, it seems like a lot of effort just to increase one's standing on a leader board.
Playing by the rules favors those who the rules were set up to benefit. Are you poor, "ugly", unlucky, "stupid", uncoordinated? Cheating is your chance to win when our "just" society tells you you must lose. The transgression itself feels right and good.
No one forces, or even pressures, anyone to play multiplayer video games.