There are four major reasons why people cheat in online video games and even more ways to stop them, according to Clint Sereday and Nemanja Mulasmajic, leaders of an anti-cheat gaming company called Byfron, who gave a talk at GDC, Stephen writes.
Why it matters: Game studios are in a perpetual conflict with cheaters, with the biggest games regularly banning thousands of accounts in an effort to stop cheating from scaring off the rest of the player base.
According to Sereday and Mulasmajic: Content cheaters want a shortcut to obtaining a game’s newest unlockable content.
- A good counter: Make unlock conditions for content reasonable and achievable.
Money cheaters are people who profit from making and selling cheats that exploit technical loopholes.
- A good counter: Send lawyers after them.
- “They care about the money. So if you go after them with legal experts, they tend to fold…
