How Riot Games is fighting the war against video game hackers

Re:How Riot Games is fighting the war against video game hac... by hoten on Sunday May 04, 2025 @05:46PM (#43889850)

If you can't fully connect your results in the game to your skill (because you can't trust if the others cheated), then you can't trust you are improving (or how to adapt to maybe improve).

On an evolutionary level, the purpose of play is to improve your skill in something in a tight, enjoyable feedback loop. Cheating messes with that.

Though your approach is preferable, I do think cheating (or more broadly, not trusting that you can learn how to improve with further play) kneecaps the whole point of playing.

(I'm badly presenting an idea I learned from Jonathan Blow re: how some game design ideas, such as opaque adaptive difficulty like rubberbanding found in racing games, destroys the purpose of playing)

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Re:How Riot Games is fighting the war against video game hac... by bee_rider on Sunday May 04, 2025 @06:20PM (#43890095)

I don’t think these subtle cheats make a big difference in matchmaking type games anyway. It could be finding cheat-enhanced bad players, or non-cheat-enhanced good players. If the cheats are subtle, who can tell the difference?

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Re:How Riot Games is fighting the war against video game hac... by rcxdude on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @04:33AM (#43902868)

Exactly my point.

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