OT: Blizzard Entertainment disabled around 20,000 accounts of cheaters

Wardad · #1 September 13th, 2002, 06:59 PM

Winning can be fun, losing can be depressing. People with no ethics may see cheating as another tool. After all the next guy is likely to be cheating.

Warchild has unlearned a lot, and teaches me things I do not want to know. He would play MOO in "GOD" mode with cheats and enjoy taunting the AIs.

geoschmo · #2 September 13th, 2002, 07:32 PM

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Originally posted by Wardad:
Winning can be fun, losing can be depressing. People with no ethics may see cheating as another tool. After all the next guy is likely to be cheating.

Well, if you are playing Warcraft on Blizzard.com, odds are good he is.

Arkcon · #3 September 13th, 2002, 08:47 PM

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Originally posted by Wardad:
Winning can be fun, losing can be depressing. .

IMHO, someone older than 8 years old should be begining to conquer that feeling. I started my first PBW game. I'm against an organic race, a psycic race, a temporal race, and a religious race.

I'm playing stock Jarenar.

I have 3 small planets.

I'm planning a noble death for my race, not galactic conquest

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Originally posted by Wardad:

He would play MOO in "GOD" mode with cheats and enjoy taunting the AIs.

Oh wait, cheating against the AI? Well, if I only intend to play for a half hour sure. Even playing well against the AI is exploiting it.

Atrocities · #4 September 13th, 2002, 09:09 PM

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[ September 13, 2002, 20:09: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

Phoenix-D · #5 September 13th, 2002, 09:22 PM

"So this is my sollution: Game makers; don't put cheatcodes in games!!
(offcourse you still can HEX edit the game, but I think most of the cheating could be avoided if they won't include cheatcodes)."

99% of the time the cheats in MP are NOT cheat codes. These gennerally are disabled for MP, and if they are active anyone can use them.

The map hack for example wasn't a cheat code.

Phoenix-D

gregebowman · #6 September 15th, 2002, 03:08 AM

Having never played an on-line game before, I can't say anything about that kind of cheating. but I must admit that if I'm playing a game by myself, I am tempted to use cheat codes sometime, depending on how bad I'm getting beat or not getting enough money or resources. That being said, I have only used the cheat code in SEIVG once, on my very first game, mostly so I could get through it and explore all of the nuances of the game that I probably wouldn't have seen the first time around. But ever since then, I have resisted the temptation to use it. And even though I usually wind up getting beat or not progressing as fast as I could, I'm having more fun not using the code than I would have if I had used the codes.

DavidG · #7 September 15th, 2002, 04:06 AM

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Originally posted by sparhawk:

So this is my sollution: Game makers; don't put cheatcodes in games!!

Good idea if you mean only in MP mode. In single play mode game makers do not put in enough 'cheats' in my opinion. When I pay my $80 for a game I want to play it however I feel. If I want to ski that track with out winning all the other first let me damm it! If I don't feel like fighting that one monster 20 times let me press a button and skip ahead. If I want to cruise around that 3rd Island in Grand Theft Auto let me do it! I bought your freeking game... (sorry for the slightly OT rant

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