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There's some overlap with your points but I think you missed 2 big ones. Blatant cheating to troll is one (myg0t "clan" is the first notorious case I remember
by hnick 7y ago
There's some overlap with your points but I think you missed 2 big ones.
Blatant cheating to troll is one (myg0t "clan" is the first notorious case I remember from back in the day).
Another is "cheating" to fix problems in the game. Some games are really good except for a couple of issues. An example from back in the day is Final Fantasy XI. They programmed it so ALT-TAB would crash the game. They thought this would stop cheaters (Japanese devs don't seem to really get the PC landscape sometimes) but it was just really inconvenient for the rest of us. I hit it by mistake/habit more than once in a tense moment. So a third party hack called Windower was invented to stop this.
Predictably, it was very popular but there were also players saying those who used it were dirty cheats who deserved a ban. Alsod predictably, because it already operated in a grey area, it received a number of QoL updates and features including add-on support and scripting where anyone could easily develop things that clearly crosses the line.