PlayStation announced that they will stop making discs. People are rightfully mad about this, but it's not actually about physical media. It's about owning your games.
Only some cheaters are a service problem. There are a number of different cheater archetypes and some of them do not respond to service offerings
And believe it or not, while kernel level provides a level of access that could be used for nefarious spying we actually do much MORE stuff people would find distasteful when we DON’T have kernel access, because we have to infer more without direct access to the places where cheat makers do their work
I’m unaware of any (1st party) game services being offerered to cheaters, or any explicit positive association. Best I can think of is a more neutural “anarchy” servers (i.e Minecraft). I imagine implimenting built-in “cheats” you would expect from 3rd parties (e.g. auto aim, wallhacks) but framed in a way that is hopefully tolerable to non-cheaters (perhapscalling it a handicap).
Having control over others’ computing, even with good intentions, creates a bad incentive. One must resist the temptation to use that control for your own benefit at the user’s expense. So no, I wouldn’t believe devs typically act more immoral when they have less unjust power over others’ computing.
As someone who works in this problem space, I promise you with 100% certainty that the type and quantity of data collection being done without kernel access would be far more distasteful than what’s done with kernel access. You can take my word for that or not but I obviously can’t say any more than that
Including cheating functionality in games is already done and people hate it: it’s called pay-to-win microtransactions.
The archetypes for cheaters are such that they don’t provide ways to please the a large portion of cheaters without harming players because harm is their goal. And the other group is trying to make money by charging for services for players and then cheating to complete those services as fast as possible. There are no in-game features that can be created to mitigate these people.
The only class of cheaters that can be dealt with as a service problem are those that are cheating to a) catch up to others or b) offset a skill shortfall or c) offset a time shortfall. This makes up only a subset of an cheaters
Only some cheaters are a service problem. There are a number of different cheater archetypes and some of them do not respond to service offerings
And believe it or not, while kernel level provides a level of access that could be used for nefarious spying we actually do much MORE stuff people would find distasteful when we DON’T have kernel access, because we have to infer more without direct access to the places where cheat makers do their work
I’m unaware of any (1st party) game services being offerered to cheaters, or any explicit positive association. Best I can think of is a more neutural “anarchy” servers (i.e Minecraft). I imagine implimenting built-in “cheats” you would expect from 3rd parties (e.g. auto aim, wallhacks) but framed in a way that is hopefully tolerable to non-cheaters (perhapscalling it a handicap).
Having control over others’ computing, even with good intentions, creates a bad incentive. One must resist the temptation to use that control for your own benefit at the user’s expense. So no, I wouldn’t believe devs typically act more immoral when they have less unjust power over others’ computing.
As someone who works in this problem space, I promise you with 100% certainty that the type and quantity of data collection being done without kernel access would be far more distasteful than what’s done with kernel access. You can take my word for that or not but I obviously can’t say any more than that
Including cheating functionality in games is already done and people hate it: it’s called pay-to-win microtransactions.
The archetypes for cheaters are such that they don’t provide ways to please the a large portion of cheaters without harming players because harm is their goal. And the other group is trying to make money by charging for services for players and then cheating to complete those services as fast as possible. There are no in-game features that can be created to mitigate these people.
The only class of cheaters that can be dealt with as a service problem are those that are cheating to a) catch up to others or b) offset a skill shortfall or c) offset a time shortfall. This makes up only a subset of an cheaters