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Cheating in online games are activities that modify the game experience to
give one player an unfair advantage over the other players. Depending on the
game, different activities constitute cheating, as it is often a matter of
consensus opinion.
Cheating exists in all multiplayer online computer games. While there have
always been cheat codes and other ways to make single player games easier, most
developers attempt to prevent it in multiplayer games. With the release of the
first popular Internet multiplayer games, cheating took on new dimensions.
Previously it was rather easy to see if the other players cheated, as most games
were played on local networks or consoles. The Internet changed that by
increasing the popularity of multiplayer games, giving the players anonymity,
and giving people an avenue to communicate cheats.
Types of cheats
User settings
Typically, a player can change settings within a game to make it suit their play
style and system. These alterations are generally not cheating, except in
extreme circumstances. Changing the keyboard layout to make it easier to use is
usually accepted. However, issues such as changing in-game player models and
textures, turning down particle effects to see through smoke, or modifying the
brightness or gamma in order to make it easier to see in dark areas are
sometimes considered borderline cheating. However, there are other servers of
some games that encourage customization to this level.
Exploits
Usually included in this concept of cheating is the use of existing bugs or
gameplay aspects unintended by the developers known as exploits. Gamers are
divided as to whether all exploitation is cheating, though most consider
exploits as cheats if they are particularly unfair. Example exploits include
bunny hopping in Quake, Wavedashing in Super Smash Bros. Melee or even an
official part of the series such as "skiing" in Tribes. A common exploit in
Unreal Tournament 2004 is using the shield gun in front of teleporters, which is
often considered to be similar to spawn camping by most. However, most exploits
are unbalancing to a multiplayer game, and are called cheats because they are
based on mistakes by the developers. For example, duping ruins a synthetic
economy in online role-playing games and is rarely intended, and therefore is
usually called a cheat. Some exploitations of environments can create an
imbalance in the PvP of an MMORPG, such as being able to stand where enemy
players can not attack them but they can attack back with ranged moves, or being
able to target players on an upper-level of a fortress but they cannot be
attacked by melee players.
Divulging (Ghosting)
Most games allow other players to observe the game as it is played. Most games
offer a variety of camera perspectives from which an observer may scan the map,
the most frequently used being the free camera which allows the observer to
hover all over the map on which the game is being played. In doing so, they can
communicate with players via Teamspeak or by typing to inform active players
about any traps they may run into or they may divulge the position of opponents,
thus giving them an edge over the other team. Although the latter is not
considered illegal, it is often frowned upon because it gives an unfair
advantage to one team over another.
It must be noted, though, that in some games the observer camera perspective may
be restricted to that of the observer's own team players' perspectives in
first-person. That way, the observer can only see what his own team players see
and cannot survey the map to inform his teammates of any information that may be
valuable.
Disconnecting
In games where wins and losses are recorded on a player`s account, a player may
disconnect from a game they have lost in order to prevent the loss from being
recorded. A similar phenomenon is when someone running a server boots players
who are beating them. Disconnecting can be accepted when there are multiple
players in a game but if it is a one-on-one match it is considered immoral, as
the opponent of the cheater will not have their "win" recorded. This is
considered a major problem for Nintendo Wifi multiplayer games. Most games
implement some kind of disconnection penalty, usually by recording the
disconnect as a loss.
Rigging
This kind of cheating often involves altering game settings or team lineups in
order to give one team an unfair advantage over the other. One example includes
filling a team with only skilled or known players and pitting them against
another team of lesser skill. This is known as 'stacking' the teams. Though this
tactic is not illegal, it often upsets lesser-skilled players who feel that they
aren't being given a fair chance. Less ethical rigging involves giving one team
more advantages such as better weapons or equipment. Riggers can also abuse
games with map editors by creating maps that give the advantage to a certain
team in the game.
Ranking up (Boosting)
Some games involve a global leader board, where each player is ranked according
to how they have done in a game. It is entirely possible to cheat your way up to
a high place through fake accounting, which is when someone creates an
alternative account to let a person planning on raising his rank win without
trying to beat him. These free wins help them reach the top of the leader board
without having to compete against other players.
Binding
Binding involves binding the "fire" command to the mouse wheel or any other key
or combination of keys so that the player can shoot faster (generally with
weapons that fire at the speed that the user clicks) than with the default key
configuration. It's not cheating, but is often considered unsporting.
Sharing
Sharing is when multiple people share an online game (mainly MMORPG games)
character. Common reasons for doing a sort of this is to gain a very unfair
advantage by having higher online times, and being capable of having more
manpower (for activities such as leveling or gaining experience). In some MMOs
this is not seen as cheating although others such as Blizzard Entertainment's
World of Warcraft or Jagex's Runescape actively discourage it and if caught your
subscriber account can be locked for violation of the EULA.
Implementation of cheats
There are many facets of cheating in online games which make the creation of a
system to stop cheating very difficult.
"Never trust the client" is a common maxim among multiplayer game developers
that summarizes in their opinion the case of client-servers. It argues that
programmers should assume that information sent to the client game will be known
by that player, regardless of whether or not the player should know that
information. For example, the server might tell a client in a First Person
Shooter that a player is hiding behind a door and cannot be seen, but a wallhack
cheat can reveal the player. Similarly, data from the client might indicate that
the client teleported from one side of the map to another for some reason
(possibly a change made to the game's data). The server is responsible for
sending only the necessary information and for maintaining the game's
continuity. (See "Efficiency versus security" below for the drawbacks.)
The game software
Many cheats in today's games are changes to the game software, although many
game companies have policies which forbid the modification of such code. While
the software (for most games) is distributed in binary-only versions and
encrypted to make it harder, reverse engineering is always possible. Also many
of the data files for the games can be edited without editing the main program
and thereby circumvent protections in the software.
Wallhacks and maphacks often function by modifying the software. Other cheats
can analyze or change the game's state in RAM, such as some aimbots and programs
that give infinite ammo or health (often called trainers). There are softwares
that are actually legitmate programs during normal uses but they can fulfill the
goals when used inside the game. Some examples of these programs include program
accelerator and auto clicker.
The hardware
Turning up the brightness on the monitor or using specific graphic cards with
drivers that allows you to look through walls ("wallhack") are examples of using
hardware tricks to get an advantage. These are frequently impossible to track
with software, but they also have limited effect.
Packet tampering
Some cheats completely circumvent the protection of the software by running in
real-time and changing the game data while in transmission from the server to
the client. Many aimbots in first-person shooters use tricks like this. Some
newer games encrypt the network data, but this uses up computer resources that
could be used to make a faster-running or better game instead.
Preventing cheats
Game developers and third party software developers have created technologies
that attempt to prevent players from cheating. Anti-cheating software is most
commonly used in popular first person shooters such as Half-Life and its various
mods or Quake. A few examples of anti-cheat software are ProQuake Cheat-Free,
Choac, DMW Anticheat, GameGuard, PunkBuster and Valve Software's VAC ("Valve
Anti-Cheat").
Some "Cheats" are exploitations of bugs and glitches in the game, which may
sometimes cause a game-breaking imbalance in either side of a PvP game. These
are usually remedied easily by fixing the physics or spaces that can be
exploited.
Some companies select to ban suspected cheaters from their servers. When this is
done by blacklisting the game's serial key, the player is often effectively
prevented from playing online the game they purchased. Blizzard Entertainment
and Valve Software are known to have banned players, though the actual number of
players is unknown. These companies also chose not to restrict these players to
"cheating allowed" servers, even though it would be just as easy to implement,
mirroring the dislike some took to cheating.
Sometimes the anti-cheating fervor leads to embarrassment, such as when Phil
DeLuca, America's Army executive producer, drew parallels between cheating and
Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, and threatened FBI and Secret Service
involvement.
It might not be financially wise for a company to fight "cheaters" in its games.
Alternate characters are frequently banned in free games but they bring in
revenue just like normal players in games that require subscription fees. Gamers
have speculated that this is the reason why "two boxing" is not a ban-able
offense in major MMORPGs. Players are often less concerned about these
circumstances because it might be debatable if the actions in question are a
form of cheat.
It could be argued, however, that when a company does not take cheating
seriously, they could very well be shortening the lifespan of their games
because of the effects they can have on the game's economy. Regardless of one's
perspective, the stance a company takes on cheating could have a significant
impact on whether one will decide to purchase a game or not. For this reason, a
game company is left to consider the cost of working towards stopping cheating
vs the cost of ignoring cheats.
Efficiency versus security
The more of the game code that is run on the server, the fewer cheats are
generally possible in the game, as the server's operator has control over what
happens. However, a game server has limited bandwidth and limited resources,
which makes it necessary to distribute code to the clients. It's a trade-off
between lack of cheats and usability.
For example, a player is not supposed to know who is hiding behind a closed
door. The server has to make a trade-off between calculating what the player can
and cannot see. It can do this by sending only a part of the entire world state,
which can result in client lag but makes wallhacks unlikely, or sending the
player the entire world state, which is faster for the player but makes
wallhacks more likely.
Cheating in MMORPGs
While persistent world online games, such as MUDs and MMORPGs, are often subject
to the same sorts of mechanical weaknesses to cheating as other online games, as
often as not cheating in such games are social cheats, in the form of confidence
games. Many of these confidence tricks are based on old-fashioned real-life
tricks, or take advantage of the greed or inexperience of new players.
These scams often take the form of uneven trades or outright bad-faith dealing
in trades of in-game items. Players will misrepresent the value of their goods
to new players, substitute lookalike worthless items for valuable ones, offer to
improve items (by crafting raw materials or enhancing equipment) and then just
walk away with the item to be improved, or use one of any other con games.
Another trick that is used is to subsitute an item (that has the same icon, but
lesser value) with the item that is agreed upon or shave off a 0 right before
the other player accepts the trade.
Social engineering is often used to steal players' login information. Scammers
will pose as the staff of the game, either in e-mail or in the game itself, and
ask for the players' login information under any number of pretexts.
Alternately, the scammer will offer cheating or automation services, or require
that the player give their information as part of initiation into a
(nonexistent) clan. Scammers can also pretend that they are leaving the game
permanently, and wish to give their account away. When new victims come, the
scammer tells the victims that they need to know what they should set their
account's password to (to 'give' it to the victim). The victim might
inadvertently suggest their own account password, since it is easy to remember,
allowing the scammer to quickly log out and take over the victim's account. A
common variation of this in RuneScape was the infamous "Jagex (The company who
created RuneScape) blocks your password look *******" scam, where a player
claims that if you type in your password it is filtered. In fact, the filter out
marks are typed by the player, and when the target tries it, the player scamming
them sees the password, tricks them into logging off, and changes the password,
thus putting the scammer in control of the account. This scam was aimed at new
players, who did not know that passwords are not filtered; in response to this
however, Jagex have prevented players from speaking any sentence containing
their password (i.e. everything they enter is blocked, not just the password).
They also hope that this will encourage people who chose poor passwords, in
particular commonly used words that are often used in conversation, to choose
more secure passwords.
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Another controversial issue in MMORPGs is farming, which involves acquisition of
in-game money or items in order to sell it to users in exchange for real money.
Farming can be done either by manual effort, or with external programs that
effectively turn the player-character into a bot. Farming often affects in-game
economies negatively, and as a result, most MMORPGs prohibit farming in their
user agreements under the threat of account closure. This effectively puts
farming under the category of cheating, though it is difficult to enforce due to
the number of players and time investments required for an investigation.
In some games that have a claim system where only one group of people can fight
a monster at a time, many types of exploits exist. Most of the time, the first
person to take action against a monster in such a game holds the claim and until
the monster goes unclaimed again (usually when the group fighting it dies, but
not always), only the group can touch it. Programs exist that can claim a
monster the moment it spawns. Other programs might involve using exploits to
make a monster go unclaimed in the middle of battle so a different group can
attempt to claim it or to directly change the claim to a different group. Games
that involve such systems tend to breed a lot of discontent amongst rival
groups, with accusations of monopolization and cheating being prevalent.
Some MMORPGs can be modified by third-party tampering with the client software,
allowing wallhacking or other similar cheats. A highly-competitive World of
Warcraft guild, Overrated, achieved some notoriety using such a method.
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