• redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com
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    1 year ago

    So, these games do not ban cheaters, but instead try to inconvenience them until they stop cheating? I wonder why they don’t outright ban the cheaters. Are they afraid of getting chargebacks or refund request? Or are a huge proportion of those cheaters actually some big spender so the game companies don’t want to ban them because retaining them is more profitable?

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      1 year ago

      because ban evasion is a problem and dealing with cheaters is more effective when they don’t know they’ve been tagged as a cheater

  • ArchmageAzor@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    This actually sounds like a coverup in an SCP article.

    “At 1700 hours the foundation became aware of an unknown digital entity in the video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 that would only make itself aware to cheaters. Foundation assets within Activision has announced this as a new anti-cheat system.”

  • Iteria@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    They really decided that Naruto was right and kage bushin no jutsu is a fantastic defense against rapid attacks lol. That’s really fascinating. From the POV of a normal character cheaters are like storm troopers missing their shots over and over again and opening themselves to be sniped. From the POV of the cheaters their opponents are really dumb grouping together like that. I wonder when cheaters will get savvy to this technique and just move house when they see too many targets in a space.