Call of Duty bans more than 14,000 cheaters in 24 hours::undefined

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[–] 45 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Cheaters really need to just fuck off and do something else with their lives. They are just sad assholes who can't accomplish anything without cheating. With that lack of integrity, they'd make great CEOs. But with the lack of morality and stick-to-it-ness, I guess they'd fit better as middle management.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    Games should make hacker servers or hacker zones where it’s free for all to change your game however you want it. I understand the fin in changing the gameplay of a game to make it new.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I would love a sneaky anti cheating system, where if you are detected the game behind the scenes starts making everyone else's shot at you 100% headshots 😂 so there you are, trying to cheat, but you can't get a single shot off because stray bullets are just homing at your noggen!

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    I love the hilarousness of the idea, but unfortunately aimbots can just auto-fire at the first pixel, while humans won't even register that you appeared for "long" milliseconds. However, if the game can force other people's shots at you then I guess it can also force your shots to miss.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    That's been done before in Minecraft anarchy servers. The results are fascinating

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    [+] 30 points 3 years ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (8 children)
  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    In the words of a friend who used to cheat (and now regrets it), it felt nice to actually be able to win at something when life tends to hand you so many losses.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago

    A lot of shitty things done by shitty people seems to stem from people feeling shitty about themselves 🙁

    Can't get a job, can't get laid, can't find a friend breeds resentment but instead of bettering themselves they want to make other people feel shitty too.

    As a semi edge lord in my teen years I remember that feeling. And I remember how "good" it felt to watch FOX News because they were the one place that told me that everything shitty in the world was someone else's fault, not mine.

    It takes self reflection and growing up to get out of that shitty mindset that a lot of people don't seem capable of doing 😕

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Have you ever used cheats on single player games when that was still a thing developers put in games? I did, it was fun. That's why.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago

    I did that a couple of times, but it was more like "I don't want to grind all of this stuff, I want to skip to the fun part". Also, it's morally different because it impacts nobody else.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Oh yes, I did it. But back at the time you had to wait months to finally have the cheatcode published on some magazine. And you just cheat on yourself, not other players.

    BTW, nice times... 😀

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I hacked Zelda to because I'm not great at games but enjoy the story and I can progress the game at a reasonable pace without being overly frustrated. Also it doesn't affect anyone else so it makes it ok.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Single-player games are a whole different thing. People should be able to play single-player in whatever way they prefer as it doesn't impact anybody but themselves. Some games even come with "story-mode" difficulties and such for people just looking to enjoy the story and not looking for a challenge and that's fine. Games used to come with cheat codes for the same purpose (well, for testing purposes initially but eventually for "play it whatever way you want").

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    [–] 21 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Why say "in 24 hours" when it's a ban wave. They detected the cheater long before "24h".

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    According to everyone you talk to in FPS games nobody ever cheats.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    Eh, they'll all be back tomorrow.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    "...This feature gives developers the ability to deploy flagged decoys both as a deterrent for identified cheaters and as a method to detect suspicious players..."

    Damn, that's a convoluted genious-mind-game right there. Place a fake "elements of interest" for a cheater, see if they fall for it, run inferential statistics to determine if they significantly have an erratic behavior from the rest of the players, ban them if p < 0.05

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I was falsely banned while playing the early access campaign. I put zero weight into these claims that they e banned x number of users.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I was instantly permabanned for adding RAM to my computer while having the game installed. First game I've ever been banned before. And instantly permanent? I would think there would be a warning at least! I wonder how many else are falsely banned.. Because @kadu@lemmy.world have a point, it used to be those who cheated who complained, and this makes it difficult for a faulty cheat detection to be picked up by the devs. More so when they think "they have fixed it" after the first time a wave got falsely banned.

    I spent a day really angry about it, ranting on reddit. Was pretty shocked from it. Then I calmed down and figured I didnt enjoy that game enough to take it further.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    That sucks man sorry to hear that. I spent a little bit longer than you ranting and raving lol. It wasn't so much that I was upset about not being able to play, because honestly I didn't like the game very much, but more that this massive corporation just stole $100 from me and there was literally no recourse. Never buying a single thing from Activision and their parent company again.

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  • [+] 7 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Lol, you need to play more games. Warframe will literally ban you for farming too much. CoD: Modern Warfare 2 false-banned thousands of players near launch. False bans happen a ton, it's just that normally they get reversed in short order once someone complains.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    Long ago there was an email from an MMO saying the player "cheated" for going into a high level area as a low level character and sucessfully looted from chests.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (3 children)

    Consumers like you are the reason they can get away with literal theft. When they have people like you who blindly trust their authority and judgement without any burden of proof, they can do anything they want. And yenno what? There's nothing that'll change your mind, because people like you (the steam forums have THOUSANDS) have knee-jerk reactions to cheating accusations.

    For the record, I can still play MW19 and WZ1 on the banned account, and I can play MW2 Open weekends and WZ2/DMZ on a new (F2P) account on the same PC, with the same software and background programs, with the same motherboard and hardware. Their anti-cheat is broken as fuck.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    I play one specific game mode, I have a 4kd and can only get through a weekend of gaming before the report feature is abused and I get a 5 day shadowban. There are definitely some flaws with how they handle cheaters, and wouldn't doubt these bans are all from f2p warzone cheaters, so yeah they will be right back to playing.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    The ones caught were the idiots, how many more are there? Doesn't sound like a fun time at all

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I wonder if they’ll crackdown on the old titles as well. With the acquisition all but locked , I feel MS will try to promote a lot of the older titles on GamePass which will definitely experience a massive boost in popularity.

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