Posts Tagged ‘cheating’

Get Rich Quick

August 23rd, 2008 5 Comments

The title above either attracts or repels.

Let’s put this into the context of games. At first, broken games or MMORPGs that offer you a get-rich-quick scheme or a level-fast-now scheme attract players like bees to pollen. But most are doomed to fail.

The average player always sees the false value of a game where you can bot and just level up at the fastest possible time, acquire all the gold by duping and kill anyone with a single hit. Pinoys, by nature, hate the grind. Compared to our other Asian brothers, we just don’t have enough patience. We want the quick and dirty, level-me-now-to-max mentality.

On the onset, this looks like a good thing. You can bot or buy a stupid third party program and then just take a nap and watch your character get all powerful.

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Fraud Software vs. MMORPG Cheats

December 5th, 2007 8 Comments

In my old post, Cheating in Online Games, I outlined the many ways one can well… cheat. Note that my piece is not a guide on cheating but rather what groups and companies are doing to combat it.

And speaking of trying to fight the thousands of dickheads who attempt to cheat, online game developers are now turning to more sophisticated methods and technology.

In this article at propeller.com, to fight back, game developers have taken a page from banks and credit card companies. They’re using fraud-detection software to analyze the rushing stream of events that occur in an ordinary MMO day, in search of something fishy.”If players cheat, the software can recognize a deviation from the norm and flag it,” says David Whatley, the CEO of Simutronics, which makes the MMO game platform HeroEngine.

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Willie vs. Joey (OT)

September 2nd, 2007 5 Comments

Again, this controversy is all the buzz even in the office. My brand managers have been showing me videos and updates regarding the issue. The waukster also blogged about this. Hmmm… time to join the bandwagon and put in my own two cents.

Background: In a nutshell, the issue started when ABS-CBN 2 Wowowee host Willie Revillame had a blooper when he revealed the wrong box containing the supposed “chu-million” (two million) jackpot prize. Now, this really appeared as rigging or cheating. Host Joey De Leon of the competing channel, GMA 7 – Eat Bulaga started to lambast Willie on the incident. The fiasco then erupts – enough for the entire nation to forget more important issues and news. Sigh.

Here’s the complete video of the incident at youtube.

Unfortunately, the owner doesn’t want “embedding” of the video, so you’ll just have to head on over there to watch it.

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Cheating in Online Games

May 20th, 2007 52 Comments

*Disclaimer: The following article is based on my own personal research and is not reflective of any official position of ANY gaming company, local or foreign. This is NOT a manual on how to cheat. Rather, this is a study on why cheating is wrong and what individuals and organizations can do to eradicate it.

Since man invented games and created rules, there were always cheaters. Video games and, to a huge extent, online games and MMORPGs are no exception. In the early 80s and 90s, cheats came in the form of “codes”. I mean, who can forget the Dpad combination for Contra (up-up-down-down-left-left-etc-etc) for 99 lives? Today, with broadband and information readily available on the web, cheating has gone high tech.

Greed is the mother of all motives for cheating. In the online gaming industry, it’s a damn cat and mouse game between developers, 3rd party exploiters and individual cheaters.

Here are some methods on how cheats are done in online games:

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