Why do people cheat in games?

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Mynight

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(I've done a search as I'm sure its been discussed already but couldnt find it)

Why on earth do people cheat in online games?

I can understand cheating in a real life situation to increase reward but why cheat when what there is no real reward?

I just can't get my head around the need to inflate my stats artificially.


Only reason I ask is I just played a match against a squad of aimbotters shooting me across the map in rainbow six. So the inevitable rage quit led to this query.

Feel free to talk hypothetically if you use them yourselves.
 
Kuros said:
It depends on the context, for example.

Back in the COD4:MW days, be and my friends found an exploit to jump through the map. You could still shoot other people but they couldn't get you.

Then again, we only messed about with this in the private match function, wouldn't consider doing it with public people. Part of it is just seeing how a game engine can be broken.
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Exploits I can get by utilising them you're inevitably alerting the devs to fix them after enough people rage.

Its more the ESP/Aimbot style cheating I'm referring to.


Pure interest Dg have any excuses stuck in your mind as comical?
 
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HazardO said:
Like who exactly? Send me a trust message if you know anyone, they're not welcome in the platoon if they do.

TBL was removed for precisely this reason.
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Nexus... :D.


I wont lie I had a look at some cheat sites and they're all subscription based. Seems to be around £15-20 a month, kinda shows its not really kids doing it its adults. Maybe its just me being a tight ******* but I couldn't imagine paying more for a game I've already bought.
 
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Admittedly I haven't touched bf4 in a while but it was quite rare to see an obvious cheater(none even come to mind when thinking about it). Obviously there was suspect players but when you suck at a game everyone is suspect :D.

Although it was a badge of achievement to be labelled as a cheater :D. I know I strived for that honor.

Yeah Tonybot didn't make it out of V1 :D.
 
~>Dg<~ said:
there is being good at a game and then being registered on multihack sites :D
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In my defense my multihack bans were from a script someone automated to ban anyone with the word "fairfight" in their username :(. Took a while but I got the dev to remove it from public release :D.
 
Thekwango said:
got to agree strongly with the WarZ one though - a game I actually loved but was destroyed by the hackers and the crooked devs - there were actual reports that the dev team were responsible for some of the cheats and were happily banning people so they would have to re-buy the game!
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Thats an awesome but ****** business model :D.
 
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