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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 profe
by gizmo686 7y ago
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.
- julianee 7y agoI 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.
- TheAdamAndChe 7y agoIs this legal? It's obviously against TOS, but I don't think breaking a TOS is illegal..
- kemonocode 7y agoYou could make a case that making a cheat is copyright infringement as Blizzard did [0] so yes, it can be illegal. [0] https://torrentfreak.com/blizzard-sues-overwatch-cheat-maker-for-copyright-infringement-160704/ https://torrentfreak.com/blizzard-sues-overwatch-cheat-maker...
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- JamesBarney 7y agoIt seems like blizzard is really stretching and the cases that already went to court they lost. Is making an overlay a derivative work?
- im3w1l 7y agoI recently met someone who claimed he had a three person company making cheats. Maybe one of them was solely marketing? The memory blurs. They were selling cheats as a subscription service and with different tiers unlocking more cheats. Earned a decent salary doing it.
- moftz 7y agoThere's a monetary incentive as well. If you can reliably produce new cheats that aren't detectable, people will buy them. There's usually an incentive not to share private cheats because once it's public, it will still probably work but will definitely get you banned. Amateurs and professionals both pay for private cheats so besides the technical challenge, there is some money to be made.
- ngold 7y agoI see a weird side of it since I'm a big fan of a hong kong pubg game called hopelessland oUT of hon kong. Great game, huge amount of hackers. I looked into it, and on the android side of things, it looks like their is one major community that opens up apks and gives them away for free. I'm sure their is a business model. But that game, is fun, runs on a low spec device and has a global base. But not as horribly hacked as it was. I would love to know if they even spun up the binary save file in unity or if their are millions of kids with the same laptop I have in 3rd world countries. A 64 core duo with 4 gigs of ram, or if they have my other laptop, which is 32 bit.