Re:Valve bans 40k accounts after laying a trap for cheaters ...
by nwallin on Thursday February 23, 2023 @02:49PM
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> You wouldn't cheat at tic tac toe despite the inherently low stakes of the game so it doesn't seem any different in any other video game.
It takes a minimal amount of study, training, effort to be a perfect tic tac toe player. If you put a small amount of effort into it, you can get skilled enough at tic tac toe to never make any mistakes, to never end up with a result less than a draw. No amount of improvement will ever give you a better result.
Not so with nearly any online game, especially one with as high a skill ceiling as Dota2. You can always get better, there's always room for improvement, there's always someone better than you. If you could get just a little bit better, you will win more games, no matter how good you are.
It takes a minimal amount of study, training, effort to be a perfect tic tac toe player. If you put a small amount of effort into it, you can get skilled enough at tic tac toe to never make any mistakes, to never end up with a result less than a draw. No amount of improvement will ever give you a better result.
Not so with nearly any online game, especially one with as high a skill ceiling as Dota2. You can always get better, there's always room for improvement, there's always someone better than you. If you could get just a little bit better, you will win more games, no matter how good you are.