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It’s time for another blog dealing with one of the issues I am discussing in my Psychological and Social Effects of Games class. This week we’re discussing cheating in video games. I used to play a lot of Halo 2, like a whole lot. One of the reasons I stopped was because of the massive amount of cheaters I seemed to run into every time I’d play. It was one of those things I never really understood. If I were to join a bowling league, chances are I wouldn’t run into very many cheaters, but playing a video game online for any length of time is impossible without running into cheaters. So what is it about games that make people feel like it is okay to cheat? I can understand cheating in an offline single player game. Sometimes you have to cheat to get past a particularly tough section. But cheating in online games, such as pressing the standby button on your modem while playing Halo 2, completely robs the game of any meaning. Why is it that people get such satisfaction out of it?
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Most cheaters, I've found, are males, between the ages of 12-16: a period in their life when they feel the most powerless.
I think it was Mario Kart DS. Me and the other dude were neck and neck on the final race. I just beat and he quit. I felt like punching myself in the balls.
But yeah, gamers cheat when winning/being elite is their prime focus, and gives them a sense of validation that isn't satisfied anywhere else. It's actually pretty sad, and points to a whole bunch of other problems in their life.
I only ever ran into one cheater in Halo 2, and I reported him for cheating (I love the ability to do that on XBL).
Rage quitters are the ones that get me. How are games still being made that either don't track drop statistics, or don't punish those who do drop?
I mainly did it because I was interested in what it was like and was bored.
I stopped playing BF2 and CoD4 (PC) becuase of the huge number of players cheating. You couldn't do anything in BF2 without getting aimbotted or tracked from behind walls.
I do; however, love stat boosting (allout 1-2 for example) and all that in single player RPG games :)
I've heard the video is fake. I think it's just supposed to be a warning.
@Arkhon
I go to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Here is a link to some info on my major.
also this video looked staged.
I don't know about trashing the dudes computer...
My first impression is that it is funny. But I don't like the idea of KILLING the competition to the point that you have no one else to play against. I wouldn't do that to someone (maybe squirt them with mustard or something), but I just can't help but laugh.
[i]FYI for those who don't know...
I shot that video, and yes, it was staged (except for crowd reaction). In planning for a month before the LAN.[/i]
In multiplayer people just want the same rewards you get from your games without by removing the barriers. Those barriers just happen to be all of your efforts.
The difference definitely is single players cheat at the expense of the intrinsic design of the game. You're not getting the full game experience. Multiplayer comes at the expense of your opponents, denying them the game experience.
TLDR: CUZ THEY ARE DICKS!
People don't cheat at bowling because everyone else would beat them to a pulp. People do cheat at video games because there's no real threat to themselves; sure you could report them, but in the long run that doesn't do a lot.
For 90% of the guys playing its not about the thrill, its not about learning and winning cause you developed awesome skills.
No, its about winning AT ANY COST, they have to win, they NEED TO WIN ITS SO IMPORTANT THEY WIN and of course once they do the string of racial slurs and general insults abound CAUSE THEY OWNED YOUUUUUUUUUUUUU.
Hence why I hate online gaming and stick to co-op based titles and I only played with friends, fuck playing with random assholes, online communities ruin everything.
And I hope that video is fake, if he's cheating douche then ok but smashing his computer like that is fucked up, but hey, its a bunch of PC nerds, most of those guys probably don't get a chance to pick on someone like that.
I know people who cheat on offline games because they'd like to enjoy the game, rather than having to do the same thing over and over. Not everyone is a super gamer after.
but yeah, Online cheaters are fags.