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Deathmatch for Dollars?

Posted by michael on from the fast-twitch-muscle-fibers dept.

quixado writes "You Play Games is an online wager service where you can bet and earn money for each kill or injury to opponents. You can even cap how much money you can lose in a 24 hour period. Return to Castle Wolfenstein is the first title. The press release can be found here. More info here too. And they said that spending days on end playing first person shooters wouldn't pay off..."

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  1. Cheaters? by quantaman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How will they deal with aimbots and other cheats?

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    1. Re:Cheaters? by Jack+William+Bell · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Very good point. Cheaters are a major issue for this kind of thing as aimbots / healthbots / radar / invis and other cheats can't be stopped anyway I know of other than physically controlling the computer the player is using. Every attempt at cutting out the cheaters only falls victim to better cheat code. Like trying to create an unpickable lock; you just can't do it.

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  2. custom client by ArchieBunker · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A custom binary like seti@home perhaps?

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    1. Re:custom client by elmegil · · Score: 5, Insightful

      And how exactly does that contradict the point that at some point, maybe even now, there are or will be ways to cheat PunkBuster?

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