OT: Blizzard Entertainment disabled around 20,000 accounts of cheaters

[sp0rk]

It's not the cheaters that bug me so much as the guys that write the third party software in the first place. There may well have been 20,000 cheaters, but I'll bet they all used the same handfull of cheat programs.

They guys that make these programs are the ones really looking for the bragging rights amongst their own small group of peers, the programs get posted on cheat forum Boards and then your 20,000 idiots go out and give the creator some kind of ego trip.

You get the same situation in chat rooms with 'booters' and 'laggers'. When excite used the virtual places software there was a whole mini community of programmers devoted to finding and using any exploit in the servers they could find. They were organised and held classes in programming, pooling resources.

Of course, when an exploit was found a program was made, given a nice GUI with the creators name in full view and found it's way to the masses. Every time I got booted it wasn't the goon that pushed the button I got mad at, it was the goon that gave him the button to push in the first place.

[ September 13, 2002, 15:04: Message edited by: sp0rk ]