Russian game developer bans and doxes 6,700 cheaters
Reading Time: 2 minutesCheaters are an annoying part of almost every online video game. And banning them has become an important routine for game developers and publishers to keep their users happy.
The publisher of Escape from Tarkov, a game developed by the Russian company Battlestate Games, has added an unusual twist to the routine: naming and shaming the cheaters. In the last week, Battlestate Games said it banned 6,700 cheaters, and it published all their nicknames on publicly available spreadsheets.
Other companies, such as Call of Duty publisher Activision, or Valorant’s developer Riot Games, usually just announce the number of players they banned — not their nicknames and handles.
People in the industry believe the approach taken by Battlestate Games may be more effective and act as a better deterrent.
‘However, in some cases, despite being banned, these individuals simply purchase a new account with a similar profile to their old one and continue cheating without consequence, deceiving whoever they built a relationship with to play games with. Also cheaters who try to be professional and win tournaments would be exposed to the public so other players never give them the chance again to play,’ they said. ‘You have broken the trust, you do not deserve the chance to come back.’
Cheats are essentially programs that exploit vulnerabilities in video games to give players unfair advantage when playing online against. Usually, cheats offer features such as ‘wallhack,’ which allows players to see their opponents through walls, or ‘aimbot,’ a system that automatically points at enemies, making it easier to kill them.
Making cheats has become a big business. In 2021, Chinese police with the collaboration of tech giant Tencent dismantled a video game cheating organization that had made more than $70 million selling cheats for PUBG Mobile.
Reference: https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/06/russian-game-developer-bans-and-doxes-6700-cheaters/
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