Hackers Plaguing the Gaming Industry; For Good or For Bad?

Even since video game have been around, people have done everything they can, to get better at the
game. Many have put hours, even days, or months, into a game, just to get better at it, where they choose
to forsake any human interaction, except for the interaction within game enemies, when it comes to
online multiplayer games.

Not all gamers are honest on these things. They decide to switch to the dark side, just to get better at the
game or for showing off to friends. People downloads a few hacks from internet, boot into a game, run
their hacks, and ruin it for them as well as their teammates.

The weird thing is, people who buy these hacks don’t realize that the people who make these hacks are
actual hackers. These hackers not only limited to innocent videogame hack but they could also ruin
people’s lives and starts wars and they could do everything.

Hacking in videogames, have no definite timeline. Nobody knows exactly when it started, but it boomed
around ‘90s, with multiplayer game coming around. People who couldn’t get better at game, used this
dreadful method. It just started out small. Simple DDOS hacks, which just lagged the entire server, making
it impossible for anyone to play.

First Person Shooter are the worst hit, with Aim bots, Wall hacks, Silent aim, Spin bots, the list goes on.
There are many hack. Hack which reduce the cool-down of certain spells, or eliminate it altogether.

Hackers haven’t just stopped there. Many times people are scammed out of their Steam money, or all of
the money pm the account had been used to buy pointless stuffs. It is very hard to trace down the hackers.

Once this problem started growing from a few isolated incidents to full blown epidemic, developers
started stepping in. to try and limit this cheating epidemic, developers set up many software which detects
hacks, when used on a secured servers. In valve games, one of the methods used to curb cheating is VAC
(Valve Anti-Cheat). Whoever is caught is permanent banned for playing the game on VAC secured servers.

These aren’t very effective as hackers just tweak their hacks a little and ruin everybody else’s experience.
Valve got smell of this, and introduced a new way of convicting hackers. They rolled out Overwatch. When
someone is reported for cheating. Valve sends the video of the game to Overwatch community, which
consists of developers and professionals and the video is examined. If they are violating the standards
they are banned for life.

Rockstar Games decide to give hackers a taste of their own medicine. If you are convicted of cheating in
Max Payne 3, your account would be blacklisted, and you are then only allowed to match up with other
convicted hackers. Now, hacking against another hacker is pointless. If you were nice enough to apologize
to Rockstar, they would allow you to be pulled out of the cheater’s pool.

As of today, there isn’t much deter hackers from hacking at all. Permanent bans are easily by-passable. If
you buy another copy of the game. Getting a VAC ban in the game equivalent of being thrown into Daves
Jones’ locker. It’s easy to buy your way out of it’s, if you just buy another copy of the game.

There’s a theorem explaining why game developers won’t introduces a permanent way of making sure
hackers are staying out of a game. One of the major speculation being, developers do it to keep up their
sales.

Now, you say “Is hacking good or for bad?” Stop using hacks, if you are using because it will ruin your and
other player’s experience.

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