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It's a basic primal need for power. If people aren't skilled at a game, they need to use any means necessary to win.
Most cheaters, I've found, are males, between the ages of 12-16: a period in their life when they feel the most powerless.
The most annoying cheaters are the ones that quit. I've seen this more on Nintendo than anywhere else.
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.
It's a means to stroke one's ePeepee.
Probably taps into that Ivy League "prison" experiment (Zimbardo?). Given a paradigm in which there are lowered/ no consequence for lawlessness, what *won't* some people do?
bet....video....ever....
There were computer zombies at the end of that video...
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.
Honestly, I hate that video. Embarrassing him for cheating and kicking him out is fine, but to break open his computer(which he paid for) and scavenge his parts is just being a fucking scumbag.
I would never ever cheat in a multiplayer game. That's ridiculously unfair and makes the game no fun for the other players. Single player is fine for me, although I will usually not look up cheats unless I'm really frustrated by a game, like Age of Empires (shut up, I suck at RTS games, but I still love them).
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).
Also, that sounds like an interesting class. Where do you go to school/college?
Cataract is right. Forceably removing the guy via the firemans carry was funny enough. Breaking someone's shit like that is a fucking scumbag maneuver. If I was that guy I woulda pressed charges for assault and sued for small claims damages.
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?
Only time I've really cheated was back in 2003 when I used a multipurpose hack on Counter-Strike. Mainly did it to see what it was like (made the game bog down on my machine) and used it for a 1v1 fight against a friend and on a small server with 3 other people. I suppose you could call the duping technique from Diablo a cheat but it was squashed by the time I started to play it online. I have purposely glitched a couple times on CS (skywalking on de_dust) but stopped after a while because it got boring and people were quick to catch on.
I mainly did it because I was interested in what it was like and was bored.
I don't know, but nothing feels better than defeating an obvious cheater. My cod4 team has done it a couple of times and goddamn does it feel good.
Magnalon just hit the nail right on the head. I stopped cheating way back in my teenage years.
Fap'd for great justice!
I can honestly say that I've never cheated or hacked (etc) in an online game as it ruins the experince so much for other people.
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 consider myself a rage quitter, but I really do it when I just feel like I just became everybody's favorite target or my team is way too stupid to do their part.
@Cataract
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.
i dont mind cheats or codes etc in single player, but anyone that has to cheat or mod a game for online multiplayer is a scum bag.
also this video looked staged.
I love winning even with cheaters competing. I just pretend it's expert mode.
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 would hope that video is fake, because that's a seriously douchebag move.
What Magnalon said.
DynamoSupremo 02-10-2004, 10:09 PM
[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]
I'd guess it's the same reasons people cheat at single player games. On some games I like to have greater exposure to features by removing levels of difficulty, or time requirements to level or collect gold.
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!
Also anonymity.
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.
Because people are assholes.
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 don't know why people cheat on Online games.
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.