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Taking Hacking / Cheating Seriously - Over a Dozen Arrested in China - PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
edited April 2018 in News & Features Discussion

imageTaking Hacking / Cheating Seriously - Over a Dozen Arrested in China - PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds - MMORPG.com

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds News - The PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Steam page has been updated with a post to review recent anti-cheat measures and the results they have produced thus far. PUBG Corp has been working in concert with Chinese law enforcement agencies to enforce recent legislation that prohibits "developing and selling hacking/cheating programs". On April 25th, fifteen suspects were arrested for using "malicious code, including Trojan horse software".

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  • RenoakuRenoaku Member EpicPosts: 3,157
    edited April 2018
    Awesome, I wish the U.S took hacking seriously, but only when it's proven, and if a player is actually innocent compensation to be paid too.

    Great to see cracking down on illegal hacking hopefully gold sellers gone from all games like Aion too, like I don't mind legitimate players who choose to sell goods I think Laws should protect users for selling (Their Time) in online games, but Laws should be taken against programs that automate game-play or other forums of cheating... To me I see online gaming and trade like a Brothel they allow selling of adult entertainment to patrons, so selling the time a person choose to play over an online game to group with others, or harvest resources without use of cheats should be 100% legal in my eyes, because you're not selling property that belongs to someone else just 1 hour of your RL time for example.
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  • Slapshot1188Slapshot1188 Member LegendaryPosts: 16,986
    Hackers/cheaters are scum
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  • kitaradkitarad Member LegendaryPosts: 7,919
    edited April 2018
    Should go to jail or at least fined heftily for using trojan ridden software and malicious code. The people who make these codes know very well what they are doing infiltrating other people's computers and infecting it.
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  • mmrvmmrv Member RarePosts: 305
    Say what you will about china, but sometimes they get it right, there is no excuse this type of policy has not been implemented in the NA and EU
  • 3dom3dom Member RarePosts: 889
    They should be grateful for not being executed on streets for their major crime of messing with games maintained by Communist party of China (via puppet "oligarchs").

    Thank you for your time!

  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 43,508
    mmrv said:
    Say what you will about china, but sometimes they get it right, there is no excuse this type of policy has not been implemented in the NA and EU
    Too busy with the war on drugs here in the US, oh and protecting our schools and businesses from rogue shooters.

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  • DauzqulDauzqul Member RarePosts: 1,982
    They need to be doing that in NA as well. It's so much more than just "upsetting the other players". When a game is loaded with cheaters, legit people quit / complain via bad press etc. Companies lose a lot of money because of these scumbags.
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  • IselinIselin Member LegendaryPosts: 18,719
    You guys realize don't you, that this isn't about going after cheaters but instead it's about going after those who make and sell cheat programs?

    And the motivation is not so much that they do that as it is that over the past 5 years or so they have been getting progressively more and more brazen about how they advertise and sell the cheats openly on the web.

    The cheaters themselves will be banned if caught just like always. No need to worry about being executed by the govt for doing that yet... although it would be nice :)
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  • TheocritusTheocritus Member LegendaryPosts: 9,754
    Every FPS or DOTA I ever played was rampant with cheaters
  • DecardCainDecardCain Member UncommonPosts: 45
    I wonder if it's real in other countries.
  • AeanderAeander Member LegendaryPosts: 7,838
    edited April 2018
    Every FPS or DOTA I ever played was rampant with cheaters
    I've seen a grand total of one obvious cheater (a speedhacking Odin in Smite's beta) in thousands of matches between various mobas. That leaves out the possibility of less obvious cheats (like map hacks which are difficult to distinguish from just having great map awareness), but I have yet to see cheating as a problem in mobas, much less rampant.
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  • CrazyhorsekCrazyhorsek Member UncommonPosts: 272
    kind of an orwellian measure... when do we start executing them? The hell...
    this opens up a terrible precedent. its a video game, just a video game calm down. And people go "yea nice!!!", you have no idea the door thats slowly opening there.

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  • Octagon7711Octagon7711 Member LegendaryPosts: 9,000
    WoW has been taking the makers of cheat programs to court for years. In most countries it's a civil matter, perhaps this will open the doors for legislation furthered by gambling and loot boxes.

    I'd rather see laws focus on swatting and consumer financial database cracks.

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  • DakeruDakeru Member EpicPosts: 3,802
    Crazyhorsek said:
    kind of an orwellian measure... when do we start executing them? The hell...
    this opens up a terrible precedent. its a video game, just a video game calm down. And people go "yea nice!!!", you have no idea the door thats slowly opening there.
    They did a criminal offense according to the law of their counry - they will be punished.

    If you see identifying and punishing them as Orwellian surveilance then you have slight paranoid tendencies.
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  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 43,508
    Iselin said:
    You guys realize don't you, that this isn't about going after cheaters but instead it's about going after those who make and sell cheat programs?

    And the motivation is not so much that they do that as it is that over the past 5 years or so they have been getting progressively more and more brazen about how they advertise and sell the cheats openly on the web.

    The cheaters themselves will be banned if caught just like always. No need to worry about being executed by the govt for doing that yet... although it would be nice :)
    I suspect the local gov't officials are very interested in tracking down sources of perhaps unreported income as well. 

    My guess is hack program creators aren't always forthright with the tax man.


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  • IselinIselin Member LegendaryPosts: 18,719
    Kyleran said:
    Iselin said:
    You guys realize don't you, that this isn't about going after cheaters but instead it's about going after those who make and sell cheat programs?

    And the motivation is not so much that they do that as it is that over the past 5 years or so they have been getting progressively more and more brazen about how they advertise and sell the cheats openly on the web.

    The cheaters themselves will be banned if caught just like always. No need to worry about being executed by the govt for doing that yet... although it would be nice :)
    I suspect the local gov't officials are very interested in tracking down sources of perhaps unreported income as well. 

    My guess is hack program creators aren't always forthright with the tax man.


    Yeah maybe that too but that cop with the speed trap might just let you speed by if he's busy eating a doughnut but he'll chase you down if you also honk your horn and give him the finger as you drive by :)
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