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0 pointsphn12y ago0 comments

Cheating is good, I remember having tons of fun with age of empires and sim city because I used cheat codes.

If the player has fun, it's a nice feature! :D

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dfc12y ago

And what about the people competing against the happy cheater?

baq12y ago

in a single player game with save games on local disk? this question is nearly trolling.

ANTSANTS12y ago

Some people do compete for speed or score in single player games. Arcade games have always had scoreboards, modern "arcade-style" games have online ones, and a community can turn any solitary activity into a competitive one:

http://speedrunslive.com/

http://speeddemosarchive.com/

Speedrunners are an exceptional case, but I think everyone gets a little annoyed when they look at a leaderboard and all the top players have scores of UINT_MAX or times of 0 seconds.

Obviously cheaters will find a way regardless of whether you give them the source code or not, I'm just saying dfc's concern is not totally ridiculous.

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phnOP12y ago

Of course, in multi-player competitive games anti-cheating is a pretty big concern, because it works against the purpose of the game: a competition with well defined rules and conditions.

If the core of the game is single-player/non-competitive, why should we be so worried about cheating?

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