Seraniel said:
for some time now i've been bussy online gaming with mainly shooters. titles like S4leage and Blackshot (its likely that a lot of people here wont know them) and i started noticing how often people start calling others noob for using specific weapons. or calling people hackers due to server lag or just because the one accusing others gets killed. even i have been the victim of beeing called hacker and even got booted a couple of times. now this comes in mind to me that its very sad to start with.
i wondered what you people thought of it. and if you had any experiences like this.
(i probably have some very sucky grammar and, miss a great deal of punctuations in this post my apologies for that)
p.S. sorry for the poll that was accident i dont actualy have a poll.
Well, the problem is that hacking in games, especially competitive ones, is EXTREMELY common. You see videos of it all the time on Youtube. A big deal was made about how people had hacks running the first day of "Black Ops." for example.
Of course "hacking" isn't quite the same thing as "modding" and "exploiting", all of which tend to run together. The problem is of course complicated in cases where there are games like WoW that ENCOURAGE modding and even set themselves up for it, which leads to all kinds of issues where someone's mods might wind up allowing them to do things that are impossible, or at least highly improbable, with regularity.
Typically issues arise when you see people doing things that simply aren't allowed within the game structure. If you know the stats, gear, classes, etc... it can be pretty obvious when someone isn't playing under the rules, or at least the intended rules. What's more cheaters tend to be more subtle than people give them credit for, the best ones use the cheats to do things which are vaguely possible within the game, just highly unlikely, and then claim "I'm just that good, don't hate me because your a scrub and I'm 1337". Those guys are hard to catch and prove anything on, and represent the biggest problems in game communities.
As far as what happened to you in WoW, well all I'll say is that if official action was taken chances are you were cheating somehow, and are just complaining about it here. I say this because the GMs aren't going to take action based on the complaints of a group saying your pulling aggro off a tank. They were probably looking at your gear (heirlooms included) and the amount of damage/threat you were pulling and realized that by the numbers/codes the game just didn't allow for what they were seeing.
I'll also be honest in saying that if you were running certain assistance mods that's bannable too. Generally speaking, using a mod to totally automate a process (ie having the mod do things for you) is a violation, they have tried to mak it harder to do this, but people keep finding ways. Using certain mods for example it's possible to greatly increase DPS by having your rotations go off flawlessly, with machine-like presician. The defense that "well technically I'm not doing anything the game doesn't already allow" doesn't fly.
