ELI5: Why is cheating in online games seemingly so prevelant? - eviltoast

What do these people think they gain?

Whats the point?

Do they really just want to ruin stuff for everyone?

  • 🐍🩶🐢@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Yeah, on the rpi thing. I know someone who uses something like that for EverQuest. The gist is it looks for monster spawns and can display them on a map instead of camping a spot for over an hour, sometimes more, to get an item you need. The amount of people who use it on some of these servers is supposedly pretty high and it is just looking at network packets I believe. This is a case where I can find it acceptable, especially for an old game that is mostly played by people who have jobs.

    I can’t fathom cheating though in online games and as a woman I have zero desire to play FPS games with a bunch of immature assholes that will torture me if they find out my gender. The only online FPS I played as a kid that was a positive experience was Serious Sam 1 & 2. A lot of German players I remember. Only other online PVP I liked was in Guild Wars 1.

    • fluckx@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      This is the reason why I only play cs2 with 5 or 4 people in the team. I suck, usually, but CBA dealing with salty tryhard teammates. At least the people I play with are just there for a good time.

      I swear one of them should be in the 20k rating region if he wasn’t constantly dragged down by us losers. :D