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Epic Cracking Down On UT2K4 Cheaters Already
qasimodo writes "Gamespot.com is reporting that Epic has banned the first cheater from Unreal Tournament 2004. You can read the thread explaining this on the official Atari forums for the game. DrSin, one of Epic's programmers started the thread as a warning to fellow users, and so far everybody seems to be happy. I agree with that, we need to stop the cheaters before they ruin every game out there. But the question remains: How can they stop them completely? Surely, script kiddies will just stop and go somewhere else, but how about the guys who write all the tools? They won't stop so easily." Elsewhere, nerdb0t points to an ACM Queue editorial on the subject of cheating in online games, arguing: "Perhaps game developers don't realize they're enabling roving gangs of sociopaths who are effectively destroying the virtual world the developers have worked so hard to create."
YOU FAIL IT. Real trolls post the 0th post, not the 1st post.
In fact, a new class of game would be to simply provide the world server and document the APIs, then allow anyone to write their own clients. People could oompete on how usable their interface design was, instead of just how nimble their fingers are. (Other strategies such as maximizing your own bandwidth while DoSing your competitors present themselves as well.) Of course, there is no profit to be made in doing an online game like that...
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
I have a dream, that one day, man will frag and snipe without hearing the crys of WALLHACK, OMG HAXOR!!!! Contact your congressman about putting a stop to the cheaters. Paid for by the association of friends of elasticwings.
this goes back to my theory that games have been g oig to hell since (insert system name here), with varying plateues from the NES up to Dreamcast. old games were hard. damn hard. why? because if the game wasn't interesting, there isn't a whole lot of excitement getting your green square into the red castle. in newer games, its get you n-polygons full motion character into the 100 virtual acre perfectly rendered castle... thats all you have to do, but damn its pretty.
Don't worry - its just stigmata. Pass me a napkin and don't you dare tell my mother.
> Chances are, I would go down to the
> courthouse and file a claim in small
> claims court the next day.
From your litigious tone, I'll guess you're American. In that case, you're likely bound by the EULA you almost certianly didn't read that almost certianly gives them the right to do this.
Have a good time at the court house.
I know this is off topic, but its funny anyhow... I saw a screenie from UT2004 where this portion of a map (don't know which one) looks just like goatse...
http://www.imageshack.us/img1/5365/goatseUT04.jpg
I swear this is not a goatse image, just a map that looks like goatse...