Joseph Ridgeson
WarRavens
Final Resolution.
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Posted - 2014.05.11 12:31:00 -
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Bots and cheats happen in World of Warcraft when the game is 40 dollars for all the current expansions and 15 bucks every 30 days after the first. It happens in Counter-Strike and TF2 when it can result in a ban for all VAC protected games. It will happen in Legion where you just need a burner account. The problem isn't so much catching people. A good anti-cheat program can catch people fairly easily, though the arms race does exist. The problem is some jerk does this on a completely separate account made with a fresh e-mail. Even if they are banned within 12 hours, you barely slowed them down. They do it again. If they do it with their real account, the ban would hurt. A fresh faced noobie with wall hacks is not afraid of a ban.
1. IP ban can be got around with a simple Google search.
2. Requiring a credit card to enable an account could work, just so they have your name on file. If they catch you cheating with a Legion account, they can ban every account under your name. The problem is that a free to play games work best when they don't want your credit card at the start. They wait, do a promotion, show you some cool stuff, and then ask only when you want to buy. Requiring at the start limits initial growth. Also: "My 11 year old son used my credit card to start an account. He cheated on his account and now mine and his are banned."
3. Give a unique ID for the install and punish accounts that are played on the unique ID launcher. This has the same problem of the "11 year old cheater" and can be got around with various tactics.
Cure is easy in this case. Catch them, throw them out. Develop ways of these kind of cheats quickly. The problem is prevention with any kind of hack or bot.
I don't think it will be as widespread of a problem as people believe it to be. I have seen cheaters and hackers in various FPS before but not as often as people say. I have ran into far, far more lag-switchers on console FPS than I have bonafide hackers in PC FPS but that is just my experience.
"This is B.S! This is B.S! I paid money! Cash money, dollars money, cash money!"
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