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Is there much money to be made in those? Honest question; I don't play games at all.
by throwawayboise 5y ago
Is there much money to be made in those? Honest question; I don't play games at all.
- tiborsaas 5y agoYes, and it's mind-boggling: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56579449 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56579449
- mardifoufs 5y agoWait i couldn't figure out exactly why they were arrested. Is it illegal to sell video games cheats in china? Was it at the request of the game devs involved? Or maybe money laundering? Even assuming that online cheating is illegal there for some baffling reason... why would the Chinese police care about cheaters on western video games when its not even illegal here? That bbc article is a bit frustrating, just not a lot of useful info there.
- crysin 5y agoI would hazard definitely given how rampant online game cheating is across competitive shooters. People give grief to Blizzard, Steam, etc for their overzealous methods of detecting cheats and possibly increasing the vulnerabilities of your own machine but without some form of way to ban or detect cheats competitive online gaming would be a dead market. It's a cat vs mouse market and I know back when I was playing WoW every day there was a huge market for buying bots to harvest in-game resources and fishing.