Why are there so many cheaters in games?

[Ocelote.12]

Are they the same persons who cheat for years?

Or some guys (boys?) just trying to experiment with cheats and later they grow up and don't use cheats at all?

[BubbaTheFedoraWearingNeckBeard]

Trolls in their parent’s basement

[Xero_Daxter]

Imagine cheating in a game and still losing.

[L1qu1dator]

Because that's just how terrible humans are. They feel the need to cheat even in something as irrelevant as pushing buttons for some stupid game...

[Lochlann]

People cheat for various reasons. Some do it because they just want to piss people off and ruin people's day, others do it for HvH, others play legit but toggle when someone makes them mad, some do it just to win

[Ice Robertson]

There's so many wasted Vac banned steam accounts, usually with one game on them, I reckon valve should just delete Vac banned accounts.

[Ulfrinn]

Lack of skill, more importantly, being insecure, and beneficiaries of the "championship trophy" mentality where they feel entitled to something they didn't actually work for, after years of being told they weren't good enough to achieve anything by way of their own hard work and effort.

I have no sympathy for cheaters, I've even stopped watching Twitch streamers that abuse save states because it takes the point out of any of it.

[Knee]

Publicado originalmente por Irene ❤:

Hmm
I think the darker truth is, whenever a person ask "why are there so many cheaters" they are in the process of becoming one.

If they meet 1 cheater, their normal reaction would be : 'XXXX cheaters!".

After multiple times of losing and feeling unsatisfied, they start to question the world. The wanted justice. They wanted revenge.

Why are there so many cheaters? They make such a topic, knowing the obvious answers. They are not asking you why. They are seeking for agreement. They wanted to see comments such as "yeah cheaters should all die". When everyone replied and agreed with his view.. he will become...the chosen one.. the punisher.

and then he'd cheat and get banned as well. circle of life. :erune:

didn’t expect to get hit with a wisdom bomb like this

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Publicado originalmente por Xero_Daxter:

Imagine cheating in a game and still losing.

they throw. it's another method of ruining games for others after all.

[Uncle Sam]

Publicado originalmente por Xero_Daxter:

If you cheat then you shouldn’t banned. Instead you are paired up in lobbies with other cheaters.

Whoever has the better cheat wins. Lol.

Cheater vs Cheater or "hacker vs hacker" matches had been a common thing in some PvP games across the years afaik. I think GTA 5 Online does got "special" lobbies where all cheaters, griefers, exploiters, etc. are put against each other.

[AdahnGorion]

Publicado originalmente por Manul:

Are they the same persons who cheat for years?

Or some guys (boys?) just trying to experiment with cheats and later they grow up and don't use cheats at all?

The vast majority of people that are over 30 have used cheats.. back in the day, cheats was a vital thing to get you through games.. you might have to cheat to get through a awful bug or to even complete a game.

Then you have all the games, that had fun "cheats" sortof like a hidden gem.


In more mordern times (this century) you have people that exploit (I use exploit on purpose here, instead of cheat) to gain advantages in MP games, I assume those are the people you question.
The answer to it is, that there is only a very little risk of punishment and a very large reward for doing it.

I have been to CPL once, mainly because we had a person in the team, that carried us in all online matches ^^ he was never caugh officially, not even to this day (he still plays casually, if you can even call it that)

[Valfossa]

Publicado originalmente por Ice:

There's so many wasted Vac banned steam accounts, usually with one game on them, I reckon valve should just delete Vac banned accounts.

The problem with that is, you take all the game they bought with it.

As much you may not like the person in question cheating, do you really want to let Valve delete accounts? It may start off with good reason for deleting someone account, some may find noble or justified, but once you give someone that kind of control it's even harder to give that control back.

How far pass the line should they go to stop cheating, if there is even a line to begin with?

Will it only extend to cheating, or will maybe something else entirely? Maybe something more subjective?

[LQIM]

3 reasons:
1- Skill issue
2- It's fun
3- Learning

Most have a skill issue, very very few are doing it to learn

[jonzuk]

there probably little kids who want to feel like gods in a game like I did 5 years ago

[Kobs]

I personally don't give a damn. Unless it's a 2 team game and he plays against me, then I just get out of it. On the other hand, if it's a one team game towards a goal and everyone wins, hey I'll take it.

Edit: So I'm not like those purists who would just condemn cheating where ever they find it or blast those using them, if I can profit from someone who's using them it's cool.

Wouldn't you grab money from someone who just made a bank heist and throwing money out of his speeding gettaway car shouting get some!... I would

[Ice Robertson]

Publicado originalmente por Chrisader:

As much you may not like the person in question cheating, do you really want to let Valve delete accounts? It may start off with good reason for deleting someone account, some may find noble or justified, but once you give someone that kind of control it's even harder to give that control back.

Yeah you're probably right, But the least the cheaters could do is just delete the banned accounts themselves.

If they are just going to ditch it anyway and never use it again they could just delete it themselves.