Comments on: Gaming Cheats: What’s the Point?

By: Gary160974

Gary160974 — Mon, 12 May 2014 04:20:00 +0000

Saints row offer cheats as a DLC. They are the same cheats as you would expect to see if you entered a special combo on your joypad. You can also still purchase xploder game saves editor which although allows you to cheat and even reassign game saves to your account from another users game save. It only does it for single player games. Cheating is big business. A cheat video for GTA online will get hundreds of thousands of views. Which means the you tube user can then put ads on they videos etc. Do I agree with it. No. But it’s become a business in its own right and could even cause user numbers to increase. I’m sure theres quite a few regular home users that have access to stuff they shouldn’t have that probably wouldnt use home if they didn’t. Plus cheating using multiple accounts to cheat means users numbers get increased as well.

By: ted2112

ted2112 — Sun, 11 May 2014 22:36:27 +0000

Such a great article Burbie,

This argument has been going on a very long time. Remember Game Shark for Nintendo and the PS1. you buy it and bango you have the ultimate weapon and the highest level or have the best gun and never run out of ammo.

What makes me cringe is the DLC trend from developers that offer better weapons for a price. Case and point Square Enix with the last 2 installments of FF13. Is it cheating when the establishment is doing it?

By: Godzprototype

Godzprototype — Sun, 11 May 2014 14:01:54 +0000

GTA Online has an interesting way of dealing with cheaters. They put them on a server together.

When the currency started to get unbalanced and then passed around like a virus. They banned the people passing it, and took all of the money other players had made from it. Interesting strategy.

I have never heard of people doing that to put food on their table before though. Maybe they should think about looking for the people who do the hacks for a living.

Great article Burbs. 8)

By: Burbie52

Burbie52 — Fri, 09 May 2014 09:43:36 +0000

I have been playing this game for about 8 months now and have amassed a huge amount of gil by totally legal means. At first I did it by farming enemies and selling the loot I didn’t want or need, but now that I am crafting I am really making gil fast. Like I said, doing this is a lot of what make the game worthwhile, I am working my tail off but I get a real sense of accomplishment from it.

By: Jersquall

Jersquall — Fri, 09 May 2014 06:54:18 +0000

Such a interesting article. FF11 online had Gil sellers and power leveling. need Gil? Buy it, Want level 50? A team will level up with you for a price. Is it fair? not even a little bit. What harm can it cause? it disrupts entire in world economies. So why do they do it? Why do people from 3rd world countries do this? It’s how they feed their families. it’s their job.
In FF11 where I spent 4 years playing we had to deal with RMT camping mobs. Mobs that dropped money and items that would be sold in a auction house. That Gil was then sold for real money and traded to players in world. i did research on the organised RMT and even talked to a few in world and it shocked me they do this ”work” to live. Well, a large majority of them do, not all. There are whole companies who sell Gold, Gil and other monetary items online. Developers are on to the scam and Square Enix has a very strong no cheat policy and bans thousands of players each month. Let me say that again. 5000 a month was not something they take lightly as far as banning gamers because those are subscriptions lost yet it has happened.
Other discussion have developers thinking about selling their own currency to deal with this while others actually program games to defeat the purpose of currency altogether.. So much to talk about here. In FF online you just need to farm and sell items, level up and you’ll have the gil needed. no need to buy gil ever. period. I had 500k from farming and selling silver from missions/quests and hardly even crafted to sell. Sqenix made FF14 fairly easy to get gil. RMT are a pain. Spam is so bad in 14.. block, report and go farm. thats what I did.