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| Cheaters and Modders Get a Smackdown |
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| Written by alien | |||||||||||
| Wednesday, 12 November 2008 07:11 | |||||||||||
 Modders, haxors and plain old cheaters come in many shapes and sizes and they affect just about every gaming platform you could name. It often seems like nothing is ever done and when it is the perpetrators are back at it again once they crack the new system. We've all felt the frustration and bitch and moan about how PunkBuster sucks and XBLIVE should delete accounts and botters and gliders should be killed then stabbed then raped then revived before getting ganked again. Yep, we have all been there. Fortunately, the game devs and server providers are still trying to weed out the good from the bad and occasionally make their efforts public so we can all talk about these punks getting what they deserve (not death, but losing game access is a close second). Just within the past week we have seen three such efforts from three high profile names - Blizzard, Electronic Arts and Microsoft. Blizzard announced today the deletion of 350,000 accounts for cheating
This doesn't count the back-end efforts the company takes to ensure limited shenanigans in World of Warcraft which are fairly substantial. EA has been striking back lately too by addressing hacked Battlefield 2 servers. Yep, the game is 3 years old and people are still hacking.
What this means is mass account resets, stat wipes and hardware banning. This usually nets the most flagrant haxors and every now and then an innocent gamer but that tends to be someone swearing their brother was playing on their account and PC because they would never cheat...OK, some might really be a mistake but the vast majority are just ghey hackers that bought a script somewhere. Microsoft has also been taking care of business (TCB in a Flash yo!) by banning Xbox 360 modders. Modding is becoming a serious issue and this move was to help prevent game stealing more than cheating but just like subway fare jumpers, chances are if you get them for this they are guilty of something else too. The crackdown of course coincides with the release of Gears of War 2 and we're sure this is not random.
While these steps will only hold back the serious offenders for a little while, the casual rule breaker will be set straight and that's a good thing. With multiplayer games increasingly becoming the most important part of a game, cheaters are growing in number and affecting ever more gamers. It's good to know some companies are fighting back. 
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ohnohjeffy
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... I never understood why someone would want to hack a game like this. It's not even the one time offenders, it's the people that must cheat every time. They're not pwning, they're just jackasses. You know there have got to be parents paying for some of these kiddies and the others are loser old guys. |
john_walker_negro
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... Just another reason why you should go PS3...it's too complicated and expensive to mod! |
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