Police bust 'world's biggest' video-game-cheat operation

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Taken right from the BBC.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56579449

I've been playing Battlefield V lately and honestly, about 50% of the games, there's 1 person who's *suspect* or just down right cheating.
I could be salty about their 84-0 score, but when all of their kills are headshots, while sat in a tank, on the other side of the map, suspicions start to arise.

But I'm most suprised at this part of the article.

In 2019, a survey revealed around a third of gamers admit to using cheats to improve their chances online.
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I've cheated in plenty of games, I'm playing through some Doom mods at the moment and I regulary use IDKFA for **** and giggles, but all those games have been offline single player.
 
surprised it's got to that level, but good to see it's being taken seriously.

i tend not to play competitive style games online, partly because of cheaters but mainly because the skill level required to have a good experience requires time and effort that i just don't have to put into a video game.

can see the vicious circle- the worse it becomes the more average players are gonna resort to hax to level the playing field against everyone using hax until eventually it just becomes a competition of who's got the better aimbot.

whilst i will occasionally use cheats/console commands/mods/glitches, it's always on single player games and generally after i've done at least 1 legit playthrough (except morrowind because even with lockdown i don't have that much spare time......)
 
£55m wow what mugs were funding that.

Dont really believe the third of gamers quote its not put into any context. For all we know it might be a survey of 1000 gamers in China.

LOL when they quote cheating all started in games (arguably) with the arcade game Gradius.
They've obviously never used cheats on a ZX81 or even a BBC Micro with Elite. :D BBC Numpties.
 
I think using cheats in single player games, or were it's a consensual agreement in a private online game is ok.

But a persons belly as to be pretty low to the ground to think he has done good in an online competative game by using cheats.

Winning at all costs seems to be the mind set of some gamers these days.
 
BowdonUK said:
Winning at all costs seems to be the mind set of some gamers these days.
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I think that's exactly it. There's a difference between using infinite special in Tony Hawk's 1 after you've completed everything for the 50th time, or paintball mode in Goldeneye for a laugh, and having something 'play the game for you' in Battlefield these days.

I just don't see the appeal of an aimbot, though admittedly I'm so bad a shooters anyway I don't play them much. Is anyone actually impressed by your k/d ratio or how many wins you have in Fortnight? They're just numbers to me.
 
I thought cheating in single player games was just turn the difficulty to easy - people still need to cheat for fun?

As for cheating in online games - well since the server side went to being owned solely by EA then you couldnt have server admins pop in and kick the player. BF4 was the last good battlefield.

Many games have lost the votekick option too. Hence why the only games I play are still those where clans operate and decide the server and game style - such as infantry only, NO SNIPER, etc etc. BF2 > BF4 were the golden years.

Bring back votekick at least.
 
Cheated in an online game once. Lineage 2. I used something called L2 Walker to farm when I wasn't online.

That being said, cheaters in competitive FPS games should be insta IP banned and game removed from library, it's not fair on those that actually play and payed for the game.
 
agnes said:
Cheated in an online game once. Lineage 2. I used something called L2 Walker to farm when I wasn't online.

That being said, cheaters in competitive FPS games should be insta IP banned and game removed from library, it's not fair on those that actually play and payed for the game.
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Personally don't care what people do when it doesn't affect other players - but wallhacks/ESP and especially aimbots and things like rate of fire hacking on game with poor client/server architecture, etc. are another matter.

Personally I'm an experienced enough player someone using wallhacks or ESP doesn't really present much of an issue for me but aimbots are another matter.

When you boil it down though people use cheats because they are afraid, though some might hide behind griefing, etc.
 
gaming is broken, bring the days back where people cheated and it was fine in single player games, multi player gaming I will be frank i hate it, its way too competitive and getting to the point where its now breaking the law?
 
chrcoluk said:
multi player gaming I will be frank i hate it, its way too competitive and getting to the point where its now breaking the law?
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I have large doubts about cheating in an online game breaking actual law.

Strongly suspect the law involved in this case is some kind of money and fraud angle instead of the actual in game effect of gaining unfair advantage.
 
Seems like an utter waste of police time,

I hope the real case was to catch money launders / tax evaders and the game cheat bit was just a side thing or just happened to be their business..

If people cheat in competitive games that's up to the organisers or game writers to worry about not the police..
 
Hotwired said:
I have large doubts about cheating in an online game breaking actual law.

Strongly suspect the law involved in this case is some kind of money and fraud angle instead of the actual in game effect of gaining unfair advantage.
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Yeah - there may be an intellectual property rights angle though - reverse engineering and distributing game code/assets as part of a paid for cheat could see them in court though that would likely be civil law with relatively meaningless penalties or no real resolution in a lot of cases.

EDIT: Though being China it is more likely they'll get slapped because of tax evasion type stuff with property confiscated and the whole thing will likely be buried.
 
It's absolutely rife and has been for years now. When you factor in the other bots like farming ones or those that scan in-game markets to instantly purchase listings, I could quite easily see that 1/3 figure being close to the truth.

Plenty of players using 2d radar hacks in the likes of CS:GO, where it's very easy to avoid a ban if you don't make it really obvious.
 
So, Tencent funding this, pretty sure they own PUBG, they did nothing about their blatant cheaters in this game and actively encouraged it, all you had to do is look at the highscore page and who was top on it every season. Maybe that source of revenue has run out for them now.
 
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