So, cheaters basically ruin this game?

[Martin]

Bought this tonight to play with my 2 youngest kids, ages 6 and 9. It became pretty obvious pretty quick something wasn't right. People sliding ahead at silly speeds, people floating and various other strange occurrences. A quick look at the reviews and it became clear cheating is rampant. Why would you cheat at a game like this? The worst we experienced was when floating players stopped a platform from rotating, basically trapping the rest of us from progressing.

[Raoul[GER]]

Originally posted by Martin:

Bought this tonight to play with my 2 youngest kids, ages 6 and 9. It became pretty obvious pretty quick something wasn't right. People sliding ahead at silly speeds, people floating and various other strange occurrences. A quick look at the reviews and it became clear cheating is rampant. Why would you cheat at a game like this? The worst we experienced was when floating players stopped a platform from rotating, basically trapping the rest of us from progressing.

the cheaters only ruin the final round. i dont think your kids (6 and 9, or 69 if you wanna call it) even have a chance against normal people to win in the finals anyways

[-=Skellionz=-]

Ive just started 7 games, and each had multiple cheaters at start. 7...in a row...and its still going

[Swishy7]

Originally posted by RaoulGER:

Originally posted by Martin:

Bought this tonight to play with my 2 youngest kids, ages 6 and 9. It became pretty obvious pretty quick something wasn't right. People sliding ahead at silly speeds, people floating and various other strange occurrences. A quick look at the reviews and it became clear cheating is rampant. Why would you cheat at a game like this? The worst we experienced was when floating players stopped a platform from rotating, basically trapping the rest of us from progressing.

the cheaters only ruin the final round. i dont think your kids (6 and 9, or 69 if you wanna call it) even have a chance against normal people to win in the finals anyways

Agreed, it might be tough, there are a lot of relentless players desperate for that crown :P

[MysteriousPinkFluff]

Originally posted by RaoulGER:

Originally posted by Martin:

Bought this tonight to play with my 2 youngest kids, ages 6 and 9. It became pretty obvious pretty quick something wasn't right. People sliding ahead at silly speeds, people floating and various other strange occurrences. A quick look at the reviews and it became clear cheating is rampant. Why would you cheat at a game like this? The worst we experienced was when floating players stopped a platform from rotating, basically trapping the rest of us from progressing.

the cheaters only ruin the final round. i dont think your kids (6 and 9, or 69 if you wanna call it) even have a chance against normal people to win in the finals anyways

'cheaters only ruin the final round' is categorically untrue. cheaters ruin pre-finale rounds like fall ball and hoarders because they use their hacks to make it impossible for the other team(s) to progress. i get where youre coming from but its not just finales that get ruined by cheaters.

[Psyringe]

Originally posted by Martin:

Why would you cheat at a game like this?

The game has become so popular that the associated bragging rights for things like "look how many expensive skins I got" become attractive for many people, as silly as that may be. Additionally, some people operate on a mindset that cheating on games doesn't matter much because it's "just a game". Personally I think exactly the other way round ("There is nothing substantial to gain because it's just a game, so why would people cheat?"), but the other perspective is relatively common, unfortunately.

Another reason that you'll probably have to deal with as a parent in a few years, is social pressure. Kids are already being derided as "Defaults" on schoolyards because they can't afford expensive skins for popular games like Fortnite and have to use default skins. It's the same cruel mechanism that was used in earlier generations to deride kids whose parents could not afford clothes of whichever expensive brand was popular at that time, just transferred into the digital world.

This creates a situation where some kids are willing to try cheats just to escape the derision.

[Mikki]

Originally posted by RaoulGER:

Originally posted by Martin:

Bought this tonight to play with my 2 youngest kids, ages 6 and 9. It became pretty obvious pretty quick something wasn't right. People sliding ahead at silly speeds, people floating and various other strange occurrences. A quick look at the reviews and it became clear cheating is rampant. Why would you cheat at a game like this? The worst we experienced was when floating players stopped a platform from rotating, basically trapping the rest of us from progressing.

the cheaters only ruin the final round. i dont think your kids (6 and 9, or 69 if you wanna call it) even have a chance against normal people to win in the finals anyways

they can ruin in earlier rounds tho. based on OP saying, it might be on See-Saw on the last 2 seesaws. If any hacker tried to make either of those two seesaw titled one side, no one could pass until a secret timer is up.

[UltimateTobi]

Cheaters are BS period. Don't bis disheartened though, as it appears to be that devs are working on it.

[I]

Originally posted by Psyringe:

Originally posted by Martin:

Why would you cheat at a game like this?

The game has become so popular that the associated bragging rights for things like "look how many expensive skins I got" become attractive for many people, as silly as that may be. Additionally, some people operate on a mindset that cheating on games doesn't matter much because it's "just a game". Personally I think exactly the other way round ("There is nothing substantial to gain because it's just a game, so why would people cheat?"), but the other perspective is relatively common, unfortunately.

Another reason that you'll probably have to deal with as a parent in a few years, is social pressure. Kids are already being derided as "Defaults" on schoolyards because they can't afford expensive skins for popular games like Fortnite and have to use default skins. It's the same cruel mechanism that was used in earlier generations to deride kids whose parents could not afford clothes of whichever expensive brand was popular at that time, just transferred into the digital world.

This creates a situation where some kids are willing to try cheats just to escape the derision.

+ well said mate

Download Tiktok and you'll find your answer to everything you need to know about this "cheaters generation". This is EXACTLY what happens when millennials cannot tell the difference between game/media and real life experience. Self-entitlement, self-obsorbed and over-privileged teenagers who have life handed to them on a silver platter by mum and dad. If not - ok, I SHOULD cheat)

[HuggernautNL]

Game is completely ruined. Hackers and cheaters everywhere.

First two weeks it was ok, now it is EVERY ROUND.
Impossible to win anything, and the fun is completely ruined.

[Psyringe]

Originally posted by I:

Download Tiktok and you'll find your answer to everything you need to know about this "cheaters generation". This is EXACTLY what happens when millennials cannot tell the difference between game/media and real life experience. Self-entitlement, self-obsorbed and over-privileged teenagers who have life handed to them on a silver platter by mum and dad. If not - ok, I SHOULD cheat)

To be fair, I don't think the current generation is any worse than previous ones. The teen that uses a cheat in Fall Guys to attain a skin that is "accepted" by their peers, isn't much different from the teen that stole expensive clothes from a store back in the 80s. Or the young man that removed his religious head covering on the way to public gatherings in earlier times. The underlying problem is always the same (people trying to elevate themselves above others by convincing their peers that others need to be ostracized because they can't conform to arbitrary social "standards"), it just expresses itself differently over time (and therefore the means to "escape" this pressure also change over time).