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Do Anti-Cheat Systems For Online Games Work?

Posted by simoniker on from the i-am-aimbotting-joo dept.

Mr Wriggle writes "There is nothing worse than playing your favorite game online game, only to have someone frag you and your teammates blatantly using cheats. As many of you are aware, there are various Anti-Cheat systems available i.e. Punkbuster and Cheating Death. PunkBuster comes bundled in some games and is mandatory to play certain games on certain servers. I would like to ask the Slashdot community whether you think these systems work well, or do they cause more problems than they solve? Or is there a solution that the anti-cheat developers have overlooked? Additionally, is the locking-out of CD keys of people caught cheating the reason why more and more viruses attempt to steal CD keys of such games?"

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  1. My real problem w/ online FPS by Xenophon+Fenderson, · · Score: 1, Funny

    There is nothing worse than playing my favorite game online game, only to have someone frag me using mad skills. Some of these guys are so good (or is it that I'm so bad?) that I don't even have a chance to get off two shots after I respawn before I'm killed, AGAIN. It is so frustrating. America's Army is the worst. It seems like everybody out there is so much better at the game that I am. Even newbies kick my ass all the time. It is so embarrassing.

    The only way I even have the slightest chance is if I cheat. Otherwise the game is so unfair, it's not even fun.

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    I'm proud of my Northern Tibetian Heritage
  2. Re:False Postives by Dachannien · · Score: 3, Funny

    I knew this other guy who was playing a bit of Doom 2 against a friend down the hall in the dorms. The guy down the hall had the plasma gun, and was shooting across a wide open room at him. But this guy weaved in and out of all the shots without getting hit, popped the other guy twice with the berserker pack, and killed him that way.

    Much swearing was heard from the other end of the hall :)

  3. Re:Cheating Death by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    I was shameless, and loved joining 32player servers just to rape everyone on the server until they left in disgust.

    Well, at least the rest of the world can take comfort in the fact that you're never likely to have children.

  4. Re:That happened to me all the time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You know, that's another common misconception. Dispite what you might think it is possible to both be in a clan, AND get laid. I did both in college without problems.

  5. Cheaters serve a useful purpose.. by Tikiman · · Score: 2, Funny

    What else can we blame when get our butts kicked?