If you're caught cheating what SHOULD happen is a 1-3 year imprisonment along with a $20,000 fine, for breaking the EULA. And I'm fine with Timmy cheating and causing his parents/guardians to get fined/jailed.
As it stands, the current penalty for getting caught cheating isn't a deterrent. It's like how kids are raised today. Barely are even scolded when they do something wrong. Without punishment, they never associate their bad behavior as being something they shouldn't do.
Think about it from the developers standpoint.
Let's say you have a team of 40 devs. They average $90K/year. That means, just to pay your devs, you need to make 3.6M/year. Now think about the negative PR and the lost playerbase that accrues from people hacking this game you worked on for years. Start watching your revenue drop and threaten the actual livlihood of your employees.
You have to be able to associate negative behavior with punishment; not just for the fact that it helps to change behavior, but because you're actually taking away monetary value from players and livlihood from the developer. Most people see things just from the cheater's perspective. In fact, that's how the public will see things; and that's why publishers don't go after cheaters; they'd just end up with negative PR. So, as always, nothing happens, the problem persists, and innocent people just have to tolerate the cheating until they finally lose full value of their investment and quit the game.
@Koochi-QOkay..to harsh?! Then allow me to beat up cheaters! There never has been one that will agree to meet me though.
Allow cheaters to be legally beat down. Like a purge.
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