game ranks presents 10 nasty waves
videogame cheaters were punished we all
hate cheaters we deal with them every
day so here are 10 of the best examples
of cheaters getting a taste of our own
medicine at number 10 we have a
notorious case in Guild Wars 2 a player
character was teleporting and running
around and killing random players and an
obnoxious reign slaughtering people by
the hundreds even if you killed him he’d
reappear ten seconds later this is a
cheater to the maximum degree so one of
the heads of security in Guild Wars 2
managed to take control of this player
stripped him of all of his items and
clothing and walk him to the highest
point in one of the game’s hubs and then
proceeded to jump off and plummet to his
death and he recorded the whole thing
while everybody watched after that of
course he was permanently banned forever
and all his characters were deleted that
is just some sweet sweet justice at
number nine we have rock star dealing
with Grand Theft Auto cheaters in the
only way they know how
by being obnoxious and blowing [ __ ] up
Grand Theft Auto online players found an
exploit where they were able to bring in
really awesome single-player cars into
multiplayer giving them a really unfair
advantage so Rockstar found out and made
it so that anytime anyone went into one
of these cars it automatically exploded
and killed them and destroyed their car
permanently there was no way to escape
this explosion you were dead let’s just
say there were a lot of random exploding
cars in GTA online for a while at number
eight we have a really cool community
security system and Counter Strike
global Offensive or CS co foul came up
with a program called overwatch that
gives certain players special ability to
oversee matches that were flagged as
seemingly unfair they then have the
power to watch replays of the matches
and make their own decision on whether
or not to ban certain players it’s a lot
of power but so far the system seemed to
have been working it’s very cool and
definitely trial by fire at its most
effective at number 7 we have gamers
actually getting slammed with criminal
charges just for cheating in an online
game
the Japanese company Nexon famous for
its games Sunnat attack have been
slamming gamers using in-game cheats and
hacks with actual legal action the first
people to get charged by this company
were seventeen-year-old college students
do you guys think this is too harsh or
just appropriate at number 6 we have
back when Gears of War 2 launched
players were actually hacking the game
to automatically unlock all the game’s
achievements Microsoft was able to find
and hunt down these people and reset
their gamer score completely that is
just slash and burn and really harsh but
kind of appropriate you know if you’re
gonna cheat to boost your score your
score doesn’t
too much do you so maybe you should
start from zero you’re punks and number
five titanfall definitely made some
waves going to first released thanks to
its cheater policy their cheater policy
was absolutely awesome if you cheat or
hack in the game you could still play
but you’re placed in special matches
where you can only play with other
cheaters it’s almost like a little bit
of a no-man’s land or getting outcast
from the city so if you cheat in
titanfall you’re destined to be stuck
with your own kind whether you like it
or not at number four we have some words
to the wise if you’re a professional
gamer don’t get caught cheating because
you will get screwed riot actually fan
League of Legends cheaters $30,000.00
Riot Games really takes cheating
seriously especially when it’s on a
national scale and especially in the
case of the Korean team Abzu forest this
$30,000 they were fined was actually
twenty percent of the team’s current
tournament winnings the bright side is
harsh as that is is that Riot Games has
a Korea charity and they donated all of
it to that so be a good team player in a
good sportsman and this stuff won’t
happen to you I would cry if I lost that
much money at number three players that
play Red Dead Redemption online that
were bullies are actually marked as
player killers in the game players that
were bullied were actually given the
opportunity and a chance to make a
comeback by being able to teleport
anywhere in the world instantly and the
actual bullies themselves had a really
hard time because not only were they
marked a player killer but they were
also wanted by the in-game law
enforcement constantly so if you mess
with people in Red Dead Redemption
you’re gonna have a bad time at number
two do not cheat in Monster Hunter 3 or
you’ll get banned for 7000 years
Capcom’s message to cheater that
displays during the game says because
you use modified data to connect online
you’re now banned the ban will be lifted
December 12th 9999 in the future if you
violate the Terms of Service it’ll be
possible that you’re banned for good yes
so 7,000 years is apparently only the
first strike if you screw up again then
you’ll be banned forever don’t screw up
Monster Hunter players at number one we
have cheaters in the newest open world
survival game h1z1
cheaters in this game are of course
permanently banned but could actually
gain access back into the game by making
a public apology yes by completely
embarrassing themselves by making a full
youtube video with a sincere apology and
sending it to one of the heads of Sony
online that’s the only way you can get
back in this game so you make an ass of
yourself by cheating and then you make
even more of an ass of yourself by
publicly apologizing like a goofball if
you really want to play the game that
bad and that’s what you want to do to
get unbanned maybe you shouldn’t achieve
it in the first place so those were 10
harsh punishments for video game
cheaters have you ever been a victim to
one of these let us know let us know
which treatments you think should be
adopted by a bunch of games are some of
these too harsh and crazy or are they
just right and of course if you had a
good time definitely liked this video
because it really helps us out you know
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you’re new you could also follow me and
yell at me about video games on twitter
at jake Baldino
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you guys next time
The most dishonorable thing
you can do in video games.
But, sometimes it sucks pretty bad
and sometimes the
consequences can be steep.
Hi folks, it’s Falcon and today
on Gameranx 10 Nasty
Ways video game cheaters
were punished Part two.
Now if you go back to part one
we talked about some
cheaters in various games.
Guild Wars 2, CS:GO, Nexon,
Gears of War, Titanfall
the various riot games,
Red Dead, Monster Hunter 3,
H1Z1 And GTA 5 specifically GTA online.
They’re all interesting.
Some of them are actually
pretty funny ways
of being punished for cheating.
But without any further ado
starting off at number 10,
COD Warzones, Mitigations.
So, Player Response, call of
Duty’s new anti cheat software,
Ricochet been kind of mixed,
but one of the positives of the system
is that it incorporated
a bunch of mitigations
as they’re calling it into the game,
that are basically ways in
which the system makes cheaters
have less of an impact.
It does keep them in the game in order
to fully analyze their tactics
and strengthen ricochet’s security.
I’m using their words of course.
I don’t know if that completely jives
but it’ll probably take some time
before you can answer that.
As Ricochet evolves,
I’m sure it’ll become apparent
if that makes any difference.
Anyway, how effective this
stuff is at curbing cheaters
eh, I don’t know yet
but it does make for some
pretty funny headlines.
The first major mitigation
outlined from this cell job
from callofduty.com
describes a damage shield
where they make it so
anyone detected is cheating
does less damage to other players.
The mitigations get harsher from there.
Next comes cloaking,
which when activated makes
all the legitimate players
invisible, including sounds.
So, if you’re cheating,
you cannot see anyone.
The most extreme is disarm
which is exactly what it sounds like.
They just straight up take
your guns, you’re cheating
you don’t get guns, you just
run around and get shot.
That’s it.
Again, on paper these
things sound pretty good
but I think it’s gonna be a while
before we can say if this is
really the way so to speak.
And number nine, CS:GO and
actually other games too
these fake hacks make cheaters jump
off the map is a pretty interesting story.
The caught some playback in 2020.
There’s a streamer and YouTube
producer named ScriptKid
who had this hilarious idea
of creating fake cheat
software that was the opposite
of helpful for any poor dope who ended
up downloading it instead
of the standard aim bot.
This software hit a collection
of punishments that would
do things like make it
so they can’t jump or force
them to throw grenades
at their own feet.
Or probably the most
impressive video posted
to his YouTube channel.
Force a cheater to commit
suicide in the game.
How it works is that
the program would take
over inputs after detecting
certain in-game triggers
like the suicide punishment.
It detect when
the player crosses certain
invisible thresholds
and would make them switch
to a flash bang or something similar
and they throw it at their feet
and then force them off a nearby ledge.
The best part about it is
that it actually records
the cheater’s death
and sends the resulting
footage back to ScriptKid
so he could show off the results
on their YouTube channel.
It’s all really funny and unlike
other entries on this list
there’s no danger of it
affecting other players
because the only ones
who are getting punished
are people who downloaded
the fake software
in the first place.
Basically, they’re asking for it.
Legitimately asking for it.
At number eight is Fall
Guys, cheater Island.
Cheating is pointless enough
as it is in games, but it’s
really unnecessary In a game
like Fall Guys, which is
designed to be really casual
like there’s no kill death
ratios, there’s no leaderboards
the best you can do is
get number one in a game
and it barely matters.
Of course that’s not gonna stop
people from cheating anyway.
And at least for a while
the developers of Fall
Guys, Media Tonic came
up with their own method to deal with it.
Instead of just
immediately banning players
for cheating the game would put them
in a separate queue just
for being caught cheating.
And they described this as Cheater Island.
It’s a funny idea forcing
cheaters only to play
with other cheaters.
But being a relatively small developer
they ran into problems.
The cheaters that did get moved
could still attempt matchmaking
but if there were no other cheaters nearby
the game would just be stuck
trying to connect forever.
The funny thing is Media
Tonic never even actually knew
if one of these cheater
only games actually ran.
They think someone posted a video about it
but they’re not actually sure.
Either way It was pretty clear
that the developers were
in over their heads on it
and these anti cheat measures were kind
of just making the game look
worse rather than better.
So, they moved to a less amusing
but more effective method
of just banning people if
they got caught cheating.
It’s not as funny as forcing
cheaters to play together
but considering pretty
much every multiplayer game
that attempts this eventually seems
to give up on it after a while.
It’s probably better to just ban a cheater
than waste precious server space on ’em.
And number seven is
Botany Bay In RuneScape.
Back in 2012 RuneScape
had a real bot problem.
It’s a common issue in MMOs
but especially in free-to-play games.
You know, games like RuneScape.
If you’re unaware of
bot’s, basically a script
that automatically inputs button commands
to automate certain actions.
In MMOs, it’s usually done
to make farming resources
or crafting faster and
easier, or it’s used for spam.
Either way, they get pretty annoying
for regular players for obvious reasons.
So, Jagex, they came up with
a pretty fanciful solution.
Botany Bay, an island where
bots are sent to be judged
and I’m not being facetious here,
what would happen to
somebody accused to be a bot?
Would that be that they’d
appear in the center
of the island or the bot
finder General would proclaim
that they had been accused of botting
and give anyone in attendance
the opportunity to vote
on one of three possible
punishments, crushing, swallowing
where a giant worm eats
the bot or deity where
they’re incinerated by a holy light.
The entire time any
normal players watching
could pick up rotten tomatoes
and throw them at the accused.
No matter what the punishment,
the result was the same.
The bots killed and the account
will be permanently banned.
The island was closed in 2018
and the game moved onto a less
exciting punishment system
which is sadly the direction
most games seemed to be going.
The actual effectiveness
of stuff like Botany Bay,
I don’t really know, but it’s creative.
And number six is Bad
Eggs from Pokemon Gen III.
A nasty little thing that can appear
when you use certain game
shark codes in Pokemon,
Ruby, Sapphire or Emerald.
When trying to generate
certain rare monsters.
Instead of getting the
legendary creature you want
you end up with a bad egg, a
worthless Pokemon that takes
up space in your collection
and never hatches or evolves.
It seems intentional
like a thing meant to
counter people who try
to cheat their way to get
Pokemon, but ah, I’m not so sure
for one thing, these bad
eggs are potentially damaging
to the game rather than just wasted space.
Like they have a chance of
causing permanent damage
to your save file the longer you have ’em.
They can even corrupt
the firmware of the game
breaking it completely, which
seems to be a little extreme
if all they wanted to
do is just stop people
from generating rare monsters, it’s likely
that the bad egg was created
for testing purposes.
So, programmers could immediately know
if something went wrong with
the egg generation program
and unless game freak starts
talking, which is unlikely
all anyone can really do is
speculate and also be careful
about cheating in any game
where the bad egg shows up.
There are a few methods for deleting them
but the outcome can be a little chaotic.
So, it’s best just to leave
the whole thing alone.
And number five, Donkey Kong 64
and unplayable buggy
game followed by death.
Like who knew using a Game
Shark could be so dangerous.
Like these things are ubiquitous
in terms of the 1990s.
Everybody had one, but
little did they know
they were actually game
destroying time bombs
waiting to explode.
Okay, little dramatic, right?
Yeah, most games worked fine,
but the ones that didn’t work
Oh, boy did they not work.
For example, Donkey Kong 64.
So, games kind of already
a bit of a buggy mess.
So introducing Game Shark
codes into the equation.
It’s just asking for problems.
If you try to use the Infinite Health Code
for Donkey Kong 64 for instance,
everything seems fine at first,
but the next time you load
up the game it’s gonna
be a bugged out mess
with Donkey Kong staggering
all over the place
whereas single hit will kill you.
Keep in mind the big issue here
you don’t even need to
be using the Game Shark
for this to become a problem.
Every time you load the game,
it’s gonna be bugged out.
You’re basically screwed.
Pretty much every bit of
discussion about this circles back
to some gameplay posted
on YouTube by KlydeStorm
but hardly the only person who’s reported
this issue popping up.
I’ve seen lots of people
claim that Rare put this cheat
in intentionally is a way
to stop cheaters, but as far
as I can tell, there’s no
evidence that it’s actually true.
I don’t know, you guys are smart, right?
Has anyone actually asked Rare about this?
Let us know in the comments
if you if you know anything.
AT number four is Battlefield 1942.
The instant failure.
For some reason there
are cheats in the very
first battlefield game from
2002 that can only be accessed
in single player and for
some reason they come
with some pretty hefty punishments.
For one thing, if you
input them incorrectly
the game hits you with
a message that says,
“Trying to cheat?
Shame on you, feel my wrath,”
and you get your ticket
count dropped by one,
which minus will be an instant loss.
If you do manage to put
in these codes correctly
and good luck, they’re long
and they’re case sensitive
you still get punished.
Depending on the cheat
you get a huge portion of
your team’s tickets taken away
which in most instances
makes your team lose
at least in the next game.
The cheats stay active and
your tickets get reset.
But why even make it
have so much punishment?
You can only use the codes
in single player against bots anyway.
You can’t use ’em in co-op.
So, what’s the point?
Why even put cheats in the game
if you don’t want people using them?
I don’t know, 2002 was
a very different time.
And number three is Valkyrie Profile 2
Infecting your save system.
The whole save system.
Unlike some of the previous entries
on the list where it’s not
a hundred percent clear
if the punishments for cheating
was intentionally put there
by developers or a bug, Oh, it’s obvious
that this was intentional.
Square Enix was just
I guess feeling extra malevolent here.
‘Cause Valkyrie profile
2’s anti cheat software
is nasty as hell.
How it works is if it detects
you cheating using something
like a game shark, it makes it
so the game will crash
after a few battles.
Noteworthy thing about this is
it’s one of those PlayStation two games
with a separate system file
and when the game decides
to punish you for cheating
it doesn’t just infect the
save you were using to cheat
it starts at the system
file and spreads from there.
So, if you got other saves
where you didn’t cheat
they’re probably gonna crash too.
The anti cheat’s gonna ruin all your saves
and the only way to fix this is just,
delete every save file you’ve
got and start from scratch.
It’s all completely unnecessary too
’cause it’s a single player only game
but that didn’t stop ’em did it.
I guess they just really
wanted to force people to grind
’cause that’s I guess why
everyone plays RPGs, right?
The grind.
And number two, World
of Warcraft’s banning of
an entire guild.
An old story, you don’t hear too much.
The Martin Fury scandal, someone
a random WOW player named Leroyspeltz.
Not sure why everybody in that game
who has some notable weirdness to them
is named Leroy something.
But you know, he managed to
get an item that was meant
to be something that was a GM,
only a GM or Game Master’s.
Basically a moderator with the power
to solve players’ issues
and deal with things
on the servers.
So, they have a lot of power to do things
that normal players don’t.
It’s not exactly clear
how this person managed
to get a GM item from an
old joystick interview.
It sounds like it was
given to him by mistake.
When GM’s attempted to restore his account
after it got hacked along
with all the standard stuff
was this shirt called Martin Fury.
Here’s the description,
Use, kills all enemies
in a 30 yard radius,
cheater obviously not meant to be held
by normal players.
Leroy was a member of
the Marvel Family Guild
which was led by a guy named Karatechop
Who decided they should use the shirt
for raid in an interview.
They claim they never expected
Blizzard to punish them
in any way for using the thing.
But that’s pretty naive, isn’t it?
Especially when you’re using
an obviously broken item
to kill a bunch of raid
botses In record time.
Unsurprisingly the ban hammer came down
and it came down very, very hard.
Every single member of the
Marvel Family Guild was banned
for 24 hours and Karatechop
himself was banned permanently.
Apparently, this is pretty common practice
in World of Warcraft.
You can find stories of
guilds getting banned
but usually they’re for like
much more egregious things
like gold duping.
The shirt was eventually removed
from the game entirely, but
not before Blizzard changes
the description to
the castor commits suicide
instantly killing themself.
And finally at number
one is Genshin Impact.
Now we hear about cheat makers
getting sued all the time
like Blizzard, Activision.
They’re actually pretty serious
about pursuing cheat makers
and either persuading
them to stop pursuing
them into oblivion
but at the end of the day,
it’s just money, right?
Well, if you want the worst
possible outcome for cheating,
look no further than this story published
on the Genshin Impact sub Reddit in 2022.
Which talks about how a team
of three cheat makers
slash sellers were caught
by the Chinese police in 2021
and were sentenced about a year later.
The verdict was severe too.
Four years in prison for the
leader, three years, 10 months
for one guy and one year,
six months for the last guy.
They’re getting banned as bad.
Getting sued is worse,
but getting sent to jail
is about as bad as it can
get for video game cheaters
especially for a game like Genshin Impact
which you don’t even hear
about cheating that much
’cause it’s primarily
a single player game.
There’s really only minor
multi-player elements
in it at all.
But that doesn’t seem to
matter to the developer
as Hoyoverse because they
just threw everything they had
at these guys and and now
they’re paying the price.
Now, to be fair, there’s
probably some element
of intellectual property law at play here
because you would have to modify
and or distribute some level
of intellectual property here.
I don’t know if that’s
the angle they took.
It seems relevant in this type of a thing
because seriously until we get to a story
about a cheater being
executed by a firing squad
I don’t think you’re gonna
hear anything worse than this.
Like seriously, four years
in jail for making cheats.
That’s kinda crazy.
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10 punishment measures frequently encountered by cheating players in video games
game ranks presents 10 nasty waves
videogame cheaters were punished we all
hate cheaters we deal with them every
day so here are 10 of the best examples
of cheaters getting a taste of our own
medicine at number 10 we have a
notorious case in Guild Wars 2 a player
character was teleporting and running
around and killing random players and an
obnoxious reign slaughtering people by
the hundreds even if you killed him he’d
reappear ten seconds later this is a
cheater to the maximum degree so one of
the heads of security in Guild Wars 2
managed to take control of this player
stripped him of all of his items and
clothing and walk him to the highest
point in one of the game’s hubs and then
proceeded to jump off and plummet to his
death and he recorded the whole thing
while everybody watched after that of
course he was permanently banned forever
and all his characters were deleted that
is just some sweet sweet justice at
number nine we have rock star dealing
with Grand Theft Auto cheaters in the
only way they know how
by being obnoxious and blowing [ __ ] up
Grand Theft Auto online players found an
exploit where they were able to bring in
really awesome single-player cars into
multiplayer giving them a really unfair
advantage so Rockstar found out and made
it so that anytime anyone went into one
of these cars it automatically exploded
and killed them and destroyed their car
permanently there was no way to escape
this explosion you were dead let’s just
say there were a lot of random exploding
cars in GTA online for a while at number
eight we have a really cool community
security system and Counter Strike
global Offensive or CS co foul came up
with a program called overwatch that
gives certain players special ability to
oversee matches that were flagged as
seemingly unfair they then have the
power to watch replays of the matches
and make their own decision on whether
or not to ban certain players it’s a lot
of power but so far the system seemed to
have been working it’s very cool and
definitely trial by fire at its most
effective at number 7 we have gamers
actually getting slammed with criminal
charges just for cheating in an online
game
the Japanese company Nexon famous for
its games Sunnat attack have been
slamming gamers using in-game cheats and
hacks with actual legal action the first
people to get charged by this company
were seventeen-year-old college students
do you guys think this is too harsh or
just appropriate at number 6 we have
back when Gears of War 2 launched
players were actually hacking the game
to automatically unlock all the game’s
achievements Microsoft was able to find
and hunt down these people and reset
their gamer score completely that is
just slash and burn and really harsh but
kind of appropriate you know if you’re
gonna cheat to boost your score your
score doesn’t
too much do you so maybe you should
start from zero you’re punks and number
five titanfall definitely made some
waves going to first released thanks to
its cheater policy their cheater policy
was absolutely awesome if you cheat or
hack in the game you could still play
but you’re placed in special matches
where you can only play with other
cheaters it’s almost like a little bit
of a no-man’s land or getting outcast
from the city so if you cheat in
titanfall you’re destined to be stuck
with your own kind whether you like it
or not at number four we have some words
to the wise if you’re a professional
gamer don’t get caught cheating because
you will get screwed riot actually fan
League of Legends cheaters $30,000.00
Riot Games really takes cheating
seriously especially when it’s on a
national scale and especially in the
case of the Korean team Abzu forest this
$30,000 they were fined was actually
twenty percent of the team’s current
tournament winnings the bright side is
harsh as that is is that Riot Games has
a Korea charity and they donated all of
it to that so be a good team player in a
good sportsman and this stuff won’t
happen to you I would cry if I lost that
much money at number three players that
play Red Dead Redemption online that
were bullies are actually marked as
player killers in the game players that
were bullied were actually given the
opportunity and a chance to make a
comeback by being able to teleport
anywhere in the world instantly and the
actual bullies themselves had a really
hard time because not only were they
marked a player killer but they were
also wanted by the in-game law
enforcement constantly so if you mess
with people in Red Dead Redemption
you’re gonna have a bad time at number
two do not cheat in Monster Hunter 3 or
you’ll get banned for 7000 years
Capcom’s message to cheater that
displays during the game says because
you use modified data to connect online
you’re now banned the ban will be lifted
December 12th 9999 in the future if you
violate the Terms of Service it’ll be
possible that you’re banned for good yes
so 7,000 years is apparently only the
first strike if you screw up again then
you’ll be banned forever don’t screw up
Monster Hunter players at number one we
have cheaters in the newest open world
survival game h1z1
cheaters in this game are of course
permanently banned but could actually
gain access back into the game by making
a public apology yes by completely
embarrassing themselves by making a full
youtube video with a sincere apology and
sending it to one of the heads of Sony
online that’s the only way you can get
back in this game so you make an ass of
yourself by cheating and then you make
even more of an ass of yourself by
publicly apologizing like a goofball if
you really want to play the game that
bad and that’s what you want to do to
get unbanned maybe you shouldn’t achieve
it in the first place so those were 10
harsh punishments for video game
cheaters have you ever been a victim to
one of these let us know let us know
which treatments you think should be
adopted by a bunch of games are some of
these too harsh and crazy or are they
just right and of course if you had a
good time definitely liked this video
because it really helps us out you know
the drill subscribing is good too if
you’re new you could also follow me and
yell at me about video games on twitter
at jake Baldino
but thanks for watching and we’ll see
you guys next time
The most dishonorable thing
you can do in video games.
But, sometimes it sucks pretty bad
and sometimes the
consequences can be steep.
Hi folks, it’s Falcon and today
on Gameranx 10 Nasty
Ways video game cheaters
were punished Part two.
Now if you go back to part one
we talked about some
cheaters in various games.
Guild Wars 2, CS:GO, Nexon,
Gears of War, Titanfall
the various riot games,
Red Dead, Monster Hunter 3,
H1Z1 And GTA 5 specifically GTA online.
They’re all interesting.
Some of them are actually
pretty funny ways
of being punished for cheating.
But without any further ado
starting off at number 10,
COD Warzones, Mitigations.
So, Player Response, call of
Duty’s new anti cheat software,
Ricochet been kind of mixed,
but one of the positives of the system
is that it incorporated
a bunch of mitigations
as they’re calling it into the game,
that are basically ways in
which the system makes cheaters
have less of an impact.
It does keep them in the game in order
to fully analyze their tactics
and strengthen ricochet’s security.
I’m using their words of course.
I don’t know if that completely jives
but it’ll probably take some time
before you can answer that.
As Ricochet evolves,
I’m sure it’ll become apparent
if that makes any difference.
Anyway, how effective this
stuff is at curbing cheaters
eh, I don’t know yet
but it does make for some
pretty funny headlines.
The first major mitigation
outlined from this cell job
from callofduty.com
describes a damage shield
where they make it so
anyone detected is cheating
does less damage to other players.
The mitigations get harsher from there.
Next comes cloaking,
which when activated makes
all the legitimate players
invisible, including sounds.
So, if you’re cheating,
you cannot see anyone.
The most extreme is disarm
which is exactly what it sounds like.
They just straight up take
your guns, you’re cheating
you don’t get guns, you just
run around and get shot.
That’s it.
Again, on paper these
things sound pretty good
but I think it’s gonna be a while
before we can say if this is
really the way so to speak.
And number nine, CS:GO and
actually other games too
these fake hacks make cheaters jump
off the map is a pretty interesting story.
The caught some playback in 2020.
There’s a streamer and YouTube
producer named ScriptKid
who had this hilarious idea
of creating fake cheat
software that was the opposite
of helpful for any poor dope who ended
up downloading it instead
of the standard aim bot.
This software hit a collection
of punishments that would
do things like make it
so they can’t jump or force
them to throw grenades
at their own feet.
Or probably the most
impressive video posted
to his YouTube channel.
Force a cheater to commit
suicide in the game.
How it works is that
the program would take
over inputs after detecting
certain in-game triggers
like the suicide punishment.
It detect when
the player crosses certain
invisible thresholds
and would make them switch
to a flash bang or something similar
and they throw it at their feet
and then force them off a nearby ledge.
The best part about it is
that it actually records
the cheater’s death
and sends the resulting
footage back to ScriptKid
so he could show off the results
on their YouTube channel.
It’s all really funny and unlike
other entries on this list
there’s no danger of it
affecting other players
because the only ones
who are getting punished
are people who downloaded
the fake software
in the first place.
Basically, they’re asking for it.
Legitimately asking for it.
At number eight is Fall
Guys, cheater Island.
Cheating is pointless enough
as it is in games, but it’s
really unnecessary In a game
like Fall Guys, which is
designed to be really casual
like there’s no kill death
ratios, there’s no leaderboards
the best you can do is
get number one in a game
and it barely matters.
Of course that’s not gonna stop
people from cheating anyway.
And at least for a while
the developers of Fall
Guys, Media Tonic came
up with their own method to deal with it.
Instead of just
immediately banning players
for cheating the game would put them
in a separate queue just
for being caught cheating.
And they described this as Cheater Island.
It’s a funny idea forcing
cheaters only to play
with other cheaters.
But being a relatively small developer
they ran into problems.
The cheaters that did get moved
could still attempt matchmaking
but if there were no other cheaters nearby
the game would just be stuck
trying to connect forever.
The funny thing is Media
Tonic never even actually knew
if one of these cheater
only games actually ran.
They think someone posted a video about it
but they’re not actually sure.
Either way It was pretty clear
that the developers were
in over their heads on it
and these anti cheat measures were kind
of just making the game look
worse rather than better.
So, they moved to a less amusing
but more effective method
of just banning people if
they got caught cheating.
It’s not as funny as forcing
cheaters to play together
but considering pretty
much every multiplayer game
that attempts this eventually seems
to give up on it after a while.
It’s probably better to just ban a cheater
than waste precious server space on ’em.
And number seven is
Botany Bay In RuneScape.
Back in 2012 RuneScape
had a real bot problem.
It’s a common issue in MMOs
but especially in free-to-play games.
You know, games like RuneScape.
If you’re unaware of
bot’s, basically a script
that automatically inputs button commands
to automate certain actions.
In MMOs, it’s usually done
to make farming resources
or crafting faster and
easier, or it’s used for spam.
Either way, they get pretty annoying
for regular players for obvious reasons.
So, Jagex, they came up with
a pretty fanciful solution.
Botany Bay, an island where
bots are sent to be judged
and I’m not being facetious here,
what would happen to
somebody accused to be a bot?
Would that be that they’d
appear in the center
of the island or the bot
finder General would proclaim
that they had been accused of botting
and give anyone in attendance
the opportunity to vote
on one of three possible
punishments, crushing, swallowing
where a giant worm eats
the bot or deity where
they’re incinerated by a holy light.
The entire time any
normal players watching
could pick up rotten tomatoes
and throw them at the accused.
No matter what the punishment,
the result was the same.
The bots killed and the account
will be permanently banned.
The island was closed in 2018
and the game moved onto a less
exciting punishment system
which is sadly the direction
most games seemed to be going.
The actual effectiveness
of stuff like Botany Bay,
I don’t really know, but it’s creative.
And number six is Bad
Eggs from Pokemon Gen III.
A nasty little thing that can appear
when you use certain game
shark codes in Pokemon,
Ruby, Sapphire or Emerald.
When trying to generate
certain rare monsters.
Instead of getting the
legendary creature you want
you end up with a bad egg, a
worthless Pokemon that takes
up space in your collection
and never hatches or evolves.
It seems intentional
like a thing meant to
counter people who try
to cheat their way to get
Pokemon, but ah, I’m not so sure
for one thing, these bad
eggs are potentially damaging
to the game rather than just wasted space.
Like they have a chance of
causing permanent damage
to your save file the longer you have ’em.
They can even corrupt
the firmware of the game
breaking it completely, which
seems to be a little extreme
if all they wanted to
do is just stop people
from generating rare monsters, it’s likely
that the bad egg was created
for testing purposes.
So, programmers could immediately know
if something went wrong with
the egg generation program
and unless game freak starts
talking, which is unlikely
all anyone can really do is
speculate and also be careful
about cheating in any game
where the bad egg shows up.
There are a few methods for deleting them
but the outcome can be a little chaotic.
So, it’s best just to leave
the whole thing alone.
And number five, Donkey Kong 64
and unplayable buggy
game followed by death.
Like who knew using a Game
Shark could be so dangerous.
Like these things are ubiquitous
in terms of the 1990s.
Everybody had one, but
little did they know
they were actually game
destroying time bombs
waiting to explode.
Okay, little dramatic, right?
Yeah, most games worked fine,
but the ones that didn’t work
Oh, boy did they not work.
For example, Donkey Kong 64.
So, games kind of already
a bit of a buggy mess.
So introducing Game Shark
codes into the equation.
It’s just asking for problems.
If you try to use the Infinite Health Code
for Donkey Kong 64 for instance,
everything seems fine at first,
but the next time you load
up the game it’s gonna
be a bugged out mess
with Donkey Kong staggering
all over the place
whereas single hit will kill you.
Keep in mind the big issue here
you don’t even need to
be using the Game Shark
for this to become a problem.
Every time you load the game,
it’s gonna be bugged out.
You’re basically screwed.
Pretty much every bit of
discussion about this circles back
to some gameplay posted
on YouTube by KlydeStorm
but hardly the only person who’s reported
this issue popping up.
I’ve seen lots of people
claim that Rare put this cheat
in intentionally is a way
to stop cheaters, but as far
as I can tell, there’s no
evidence that it’s actually true.
I don’t know, you guys are smart, right?
Has anyone actually asked Rare about this?
Let us know in the comments
if you if you know anything.
AT number four is Battlefield 1942.
The instant failure.
For some reason there
are cheats in the very
first battlefield game from
2002 that can only be accessed
in single player and for
some reason they come
with some pretty hefty punishments.
For one thing, if you
input them incorrectly
the game hits you with
a message that says,
“Trying to cheat?
Shame on you, feel my wrath,”
and you get your ticket
count dropped by one,
which minus will be an instant loss.
If you do manage to put
in these codes correctly
and good luck, they’re long
and they’re case sensitive
you still get punished.
Depending on the cheat
you get a huge portion of
your team’s tickets taken away
which in most instances
makes your team lose
at least in the next game.
The cheats stay active and
your tickets get reset.
But why even make it
have so much punishment?
You can only use the codes
in single player against bots anyway.
You can’t use ’em in co-op.
So, what’s the point?
Why even put cheats in the game
if you don’t want people using them?
I don’t know, 2002 was
a very different time.
And number three is Valkyrie Profile 2
Infecting your save system.
The whole save system.
Unlike some of the previous entries
on the list where it’s not
a hundred percent clear
if the punishments for cheating
was intentionally put there
by developers or a bug, Oh, it’s obvious
that this was intentional.
Square Enix was just
I guess feeling extra malevolent here.
‘Cause Valkyrie profile
2’s anti cheat software
is nasty as hell.
How it works is if it detects
you cheating using something
like a game shark, it makes it
so the game will crash
after a few battles.
Noteworthy thing about this is
it’s one of those PlayStation two games
with a separate system file
and when the game decides
to punish you for cheating
it doesn’t just infect the
save you were using to cheat
it starts at the system
file and spreads from there.
So, if you got other saves
where you didn’t cheat
they’re probably gonna crash too.
The anti cheat’s gonna ruin all your saves
and the only way to fix this is just,
delete every save file you’ve
got and start from scratch.
It’s all completely unnecessary too
’cause it’s a single player only game
but that didn’t stop ’em did it.
I guess they just really
wanted to force people to grind
’cause that’s I guess why
everyone plays RPGs, right?
The grind.
And number two, World
of Warcraft’s banning of
an entire guild.
An old story, you don’t hear too much.
The Martin Fury scandal, someone
a random WOW player named Leroyspeltz.
Not sure why everybody in that game
who has some notable weirdness to them
is named Leroy something.
But you know, he managed to
get an item that was meant
to be something that was a GM,
only a GM or Game Master’s.
Basically a moderator with the power
to solve players’ issues
and deal with things
on the servers.
So, they have a lot of power to do things
that normal players don’t.
It’s not exactly clear
how this person managed
to get a GM item from an
old joystick interview.
It sounds like it was
given to him by mistake.
When GM’s attempted to restore his account
after it got hacked along
with all the standard stuff
was this shirt called Martin Fury.
Here’s the description,
Use, kills all enemies
in a 30 yard radius,
cheater obviously not meant to be held
by normal players.
Leroy was a member of
the Marvel Family Guild
which was led by a guy named Karatechop
Who decided they should use the shirt
for raid in an interview.
They claim they never expected
Blizzard to punish them
in any way for using the thing.
But that’s pretty naive, isn’t it?
Especially when you’re using
an obviously broken item
to kill a bunch of raid
botses In record time.
Unsurprisingly the ban hammer came down
and it came down very, very hard.
Every single member of the
Marvel Family Guild was banned
for 24 hours and Karatechop
himself was banned permanently.
Apparently, this is pretty common practice
in World of Warcraft.
You can find stories of
guilds getting banned
but usually they’re for like
much more egregious things
like gold duping.
The shirt was eventually removed
from the game entirely, but
not before Blizzard changes
the description to
the castor commits suicide
instantly killing themself.
And finally at number
one is Genshin Impact.
Now we hear about cheat makers
getting sued all the time
like Blizzard, Activision.
They’re actually pretty serious
about pursuing cheat makers
and either persuading
them to stop pursuing
them into oblivion
but at the end of the day,
it’s just money, right?
Well, if you want the worst
possible outcome for cheating,
look no further than this story published
on the Genshin Impact sub Reddit in 2022.
Which talks about how a team
of three cheat makers
slash sellers were caught
by the Chinese police in 2021
and were sentenced about a year later.
The verdict was severe too.
Four years in prison for the
leader, three years, 10 months
for one guy and one year,
six months for the last guy.
They’re getting banned as bad.
Getting sued is worse,
but getting sent to jail
is about as bad as it can
get for video game cheaters
especially for a game like Genshin Impact
which you don’t even hear
about cheating that much
’cause it’s primarily
a single player game.
There’s really only minor
multi-player elements
in it at all.
But that doesn’t seem to
matter to the developer
as Hoyoverse because they
just threw everything they had
at these guys and and now
they’re paying the price.
Now, to be fair, there’s
probably some element
of intellectual property law at play here
because you would have to modify
and or distribute some level
of intellectual property here.
I don’t know if that’s
the angle they took.
It seems relevant in this type of a thing
because seriously until we get to a story
about a cheater being
executed by a firing squad
I don’t think you’re gonna
hear anything worse than this.
Like seriously, four years
in jail for making cheats.
That’s kinda crazy.
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