2012-06-18, 12:40 PM
I feel the same, and a lot of the biggest hackers in the server on every game I have ever played have been on my BL, the only thing I hold them to is not lying to my face about it and not stealing from other people. Anything else, it's their choice, not mine.
Unless you make a game fun for all audiences (it's impossible, by the way), there will always be hackers. If the company hires players as vigilantes of sorts, the hacks will stay private and only given to a very small group, but they will still exist, and then they would benefit even more from exploiting the market than if there were a ton of public hacks out, which would in turn encourage them to hack even more in even more games. Either way, there's no way to stop it, and there's no way for a game to not eventually be ruined by it. The only game I've ever seen that has had zero hackers is Latale, and that's a combination of the pomegranatety convoluted network architecture, it not being a popular game in China or the US, and it being almost entirely server-side (the first and third make for a terrible amount of lag even if you are on the intranet hosting the gameservers, a friend who was one of the GMs at the vancouver branch of OGP for a little while confirmed that, and that's probably a major contributor to the second!). edit: actually, one person did hack even on there for about 2 hours on jLT, but he got banned and they patched that. Still, it proves it was possible even on a game like that.
Unless you make a game fun for all audiences (it's impossible, by the way), there will always be hackers. If the company hires players as vigilantes of sorts, the hacks will stay private and only given to a very small group, but they will still exist, and then they would benefit even more from exploiting the market than if there were a ton of public hacks out, which would in turn encourage them to hack even more in even more games. Either way, there's no way to stop it, and there's no way for a game to not eventually be ruined by it. The only game I've ever seen that has had zero hackers is Latale, and that's a combination of the pomegranatety convoluted network architecture, it not being a popular game in China or the US, and it being almost entirely server-side (the first and third make for a terrible amount of lag even if you are on the intranet hosting the gameservers, a friend who was one of the GMs at the vancouver branch of OGP for a little while confirmed that, and that's probably a major contributor to the second!). edit: actually, one person did hack even on there for about 2 hours on jLT, but he got banned and they patched that. Still, it proves it was possible even on a game like that.