Video Game Designer

Want to manage cheating, is it difficult?

Of course it is difficult!

But is it difficult to crack down on cheating by a large margin?

It is not difficult to say that it is difficult.

Generally speaking, for games with a buyout system, combating cheats is actually relatively negative, especially those games with a relatively strong one-time buyout system.

Because the source of income for these games is those cheaters, ordinary players basically won’t buy one after buying one.

And game developers also need to maintain servers and update subsequent versions, which are the output of costs.

But cheating players are different, cheating will be banned, if you want to play after being banned, you can only choose to buy again.

As for these cheating players, game developers adopt the method of cutting leeks, that is, let them go for a period of time, and then cut them after fattening them up.

The account of this kind of cheating player will definitely be blocked in the end, but it is not that the account will be blocked within a day or two after the cheating.

First of all, the game company will have a blacklist, and those who cheat will be recorded in the blacklist, and then some people will be selected and banned, and the rest will continue to be placed in it.

This has created a fluke mentality of cheating players, such as being blocked after a month of cheating, which leads to cheating players purchasing an account twice and then cheating.

If it is said that you open the cheat, you will be blocked within a day, and the cost of buying the cheat plus the cost of buying the game will be very, very large.

So how many people still buy plug-ins? No one buys cheats, cheat creators have no profit, why do cheats?

However, those who did not open the game were blocked, and the game was bought out once, and there was no follow-up profit. Where did the game company get the secondary income?

For example, a multiplayer online buyout game has sold tens of millions of copies. Are there really tens of millions of players in the world?

The answer is basically clear to everyone.

Now Left 4 Dead has sold about 7 million copies, but in fact many of them are bought by players for collection.

There are only more than 5 million registered accounts for the actual game.

And Jianghu has sold more than ten million copies, but in fact, some people in the game use MODs, modifiers, etc. in multiplayer mode.

Of course, they were all banned in the end, and the number of banned accounts was as high as nearly 500,000 accounts.

Of course, for hackers, there is another thing, that is black number.

The accounts of normal players were stolen, and then bought by cheating players at a low price to open the cheat, and then blocked.

There is no good way for game companies to do this, because this is the player's own reason.

To put it simply, from a technical point of view, it is basically impossible to directly eliminate all cheats; but in terms of bans, as long as there are enough people, at least it is absolutely possible to ban the reported hackers on the spot or the next day instead of opening them. The account was blocked only one month after the suspension.

The players who were swimming in the continent of Arad soon discovered an announcement on the game's official website that listed a large row of player accounts that had been banned for cheating the next day.

"Damn it! Does this game even hang?"

"It turns out there is a problem! I just said why other people went into the abyss and put the golden light out of the epic, but I didn't even have a ball when I went into the abyss."

"Tianhe is awesome, hang on to the wall!"

"Stop scolding! The orphan is just playing tricks, everyone must understand!"

Including Tianhe Network's official game forums, post bars and other places, players are basically discussing this time's cheating management action.

Although the phenomenon of hacking has not spread, there is no doubt that Tianhe Network will directly kill it in the cradle.

Basically, in any game, it is difficult for players to tolerate cheating.

Many excellent games are ruined by cheats, because when other people are cheating, you will find that if you don’t open cheats, even if you charge money, you will be left behind by others in terms of game progress.

When others have reached the full level, maybe you have just left Novice Village.

Just like the online games that got up early, because the point-card game does not have the function of automatic pathfinding, the plug-in function realizes the functions of automatic pathfinding, one-piece teleportation, and automatic medicine to fight monsters.

You can’t play this game at all because there are no plug-ins. Later, in order to cater to players who are used to these plug-in functions, game manufacturers even add corresponding auxiliary functions in the game, which is the so-called built-in plug-in, or more directly. Yidian made these built-in plug-ins into payment points in the game.

There are about 30 computers in a rough house in an urban community in three counties in Anhui. The power lines on the ground are densely packed, and all the computer screens are DNF images.

In the room, three people were standing next to the computer and smoking.

Wang An looked at the employee who was debugging the machine and asked, "Xiao Li, how is the account?"

"Brother Wang, there are already 120 full-level characters. Counting Dongchen and Tianji, we already have more than 450." Xiao Li glanced at the document next to him and immediately replied.

"One account, the daily fatigue value is about 150,000 gold coins, and the output of materials is about 200,000. By the way, what is the current gold price?" Wang Anxin calculated inwardly.

"The highest price of gold in the first district is currently 100,000 gold and 21RMB. The price of the newly opened district is also relatively high. It is currently 100,000 gold and 35RMB. However, the account has not yet been practiced. When it is practiced, the gold price will also drop. , the price of gold in other districts is relatively stable at about 15 RMB." Xiao Li glanced at the exchange ratio in the auction house and replied.

Hearing this gold price figure, Wang An couldn't help but get excited. According to this exchange ratio, it is quite appropriate for the studio to make a profit of more than 100,000 in a month.

As for whether it will be thrown into the hand, Wang An is not afraid of it at all. As long as it is not a game planning and operation, and the gold coin is directly changed to be untradable, then it will definitely not be thrown into the hand.

Don't underestimate the ability of local tyrants in the game. Even if it is a cool game, such as their studio's previous project "Daming Wushuang", a district can rely on a few local tyrants to make the output of the studio The monetary resources are digested cleanly.

What's more, I don't know how many DNFs are popular now, and according to the research in the game during this period of time, Wang An can say that the consumption of gold coins in DNFs is definitely not a minority, ordinary players may be able to use them, but those who pursue the ultimate combat power Tyrant players, their own game currency output is simply not enough.

Don't talk about other places, just talk about an enhancement system, that is simply a gold-swallowing behemoth!

And after reaching a certain level, if the enhancement fails, it will return to zero directly, and if it reaches above 10, there will be no protective scroll equipment, and it will be directly broken.

Also, when the player reaches level 40 and learns great skills, in addition to mana points to release the skills, they also need an item called a small colorless crystal block, and the small colorless crystal block can only meet special merchants in the dungeon. Gabriel can be bought with gold coins. In other cases, the equipment can only be disassembled through the equipment disassembly machine, and only a dozen can be obtained at one time.

It costs hundreds of gold coins to release a skill, so don't be too overbearing. (Veteran players should be affected. Putting skills is burning money. I would rather cut down ordinary skills slowly than magnify moves. Consuming colorless skills will always be reserved for bosses.)

"Brother Wang, it's too bad, the account has been blocked!" Suddenly seeing the prompt on the screen, Xiao Li felt completely relieved.

"It's just a matter of being banned, and it's not like I haven't been banned before." Wang An frowned, but didn't pay much attention.

After all, in the studio business, it is not very common for accounts to be blocked.

"Tell me how many people have been blocked?" Wang An said as he stifled the cigarette butt in his hand.

At the same time, the cell phone in Wang An's pocket rang.