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Seasoned Veteran

1 year ago

EA it’s not Rocket science under 100k on steam …

It’s literally this simple people have been asking you to fix audio for five years fix it. People have asked you to do something about cheaters for as long as I can remember do something. Akimbos bei...

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Airish85

1 year ago

@ComicBookGuy2727

I remember "cheating" in some games I played as youngster 20 years ago...
Friends/Web told you how to put godmode on in Duke Nukem 3D. Or resources code for CC Red Alert.
At this stage I had already played through the SP campaign about 100 times or something.
Why did I then choose to cheat?
For the fun of it. I think I turned out okay. Id be more worried about the things I write below regarding the gaming kids of today.

You get no relaxing from games the same way you could get back in the day. Modern online gaming is highly stressful.
High stress -> Bigger dopamine rewards -> addiction. Thats the recipe.

Want to remove the stress = use cheat and you are now playing in Easy mode.
PvP enviroment means there will always be someone who is not winning and will feel get their feelings hurt so cant really blame matchmaking.
In that sense should the MM work perfectly, if you are the worst of the worst you would only lose (if we take out RNG).

"Faulty" MM also means everybody in every skill level suffers. Whether its because of bad teammates or good opponents it happens to everyone.

I think one of the main reasons why people cheat is that they want to play easy mode on the popular games.
Thats why we have multiple season preds and 0 skill people who have been caught cheating.
Everytime you load up into Apex you never know what kind of matches you are going to get.
Its another gamble with your mentals since you dont know if you are going to feel better or worse after playing the game.

Got me started so offtopic rant starts 😃:
Thats just the way the current games are designed.
Devs also love to add as many gambling type of things games as it also gets people addicted. Events are always a gamble on how many packs you need to open to get the main prize.
People are losing all of their savings on buying CS packs because of legalized gambling.
Some countries like Belgium have identified the gambling in the packs and you are not allowed to buy packs in Belgium.
Wonder why...

Modern online gaming rides on two things: Stress and gambling addiction.
End of rant. 😃

ComicBookGuy2727

Seasoned Ace

1 year ago

@Airish85 I can understand people cheating in single player games, campaigns, it doesn't come at the expense of another person. I see no issue with that. I'm talking about competitive multiplayer PvP games. I find there is a significant difference here.

I still remember back in the PS2 days, there was lots of people using the game shark and game shark version 2 to cheat in PvE games. Mind you the single player campaign games back in the day were pretty hard to beat lol.

There are multiple reasons people cheat today in PvE games, and F2P, I feel the addiction aspect of collecting badges, stats, and more so, show casing them for bragging rights and swag is high among the reasons.
Others are
- The ones addicted to badges and stats
- The ones addicted to unlocking everything the game offers
- The ones that have a platform in which to make money off of / streamers, content for a paycheck.
- The ones that like you said, want an easy mode or don't wish to sweat to hard but still wish to win.
- The hardcore competitors hell bent on winning at all costs.
- The ones that do it for the feeling of power.
- The ones that are fed up with cheaters and feel there is no other option left other than to quit or cheat, and are looking for a equal playing ground. (These are the ones I understand the most)

There are a few others I'm sure.
And you are bang on with the modern games today - stress and gambling addiction lol.