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There were all kinds of cheats and hacks in basically every networked game back in the day. Hardly some new thing or change.

• zero-sharp 3y ago
  It's not about whether the cheats or bots existed in the past. I'm confident they did. It's about the experience that the online game is now mostly bots playing with bots. I mean, they're programmed to work in teams. So, for example, you might enter a game and find that 7 out of the 8 players (8 players is the max per game) are bots doing a speed run. And those are pretty much the only games you see. I'm sure something similar existed in the past, but it definitely wasn't as visible. And I'm not an active gamer, so that was the first time I experienced it. It just completely trivialized the game. Whenever you needed an item, someone would eventually find out and just give it to you for free. At least back in the day there was an economy where things had value. People even paid for participating in certain events. What made the game fun was the challenge of progress and the excitement of getting that rare drop.
• jprete 3y ago
  Cheats and hacks aren't the same as bots. Even a cheater wants to engage with other players. Bot players are only there to farm items or leveled characters for sale as quickly as possible.
  • TylerE 3y ago
    There were bots. So so so many bots. Countermeasures were basically non-existent. This is before even stuff like early versions VAC.