LYRICAL INTRODUCTIONBack in 2010, Maxim Kulakov conducted a night stream on the game F.E.A.R. On it, he casually mentioned the famous cultural treatise “Homo Ludens” by the Dutch scientist Johan Huizinga. This work outlines the place of play in human life. Already in the first chapter the features of the game are given; for further narration I will need two of them:
- “Each game has its own rules... The rules of the game are indisputable and binding, they are not subject to any doubt... One has only to deviate from the rules, and the world of the game immediately collapses. There is no more game".
— “The gaming community generally has a tendency to maintain its permanent composition even after the game is over. And the feeling inherent in the participants of the game that they are together in some kind of exceptional position, jointly doing one important thing, separating themselves from others and breaking with the norms common to all, extends its charms far beyond the duration of a single game.”.

The heroes of my story openly violate the first point, Huizinga introduces the term to define them - spilbrecher (German. breaking the game, by analogy with a strikebreaker - breaking a strike). This word is used to describe a participant in a game who acts contrary to the rules. “Rogues” stand out as a separate caste, people pretending to play: “They pretend to recognize the power of the magic circle of the game.”. The community of the game forgives these “sins” much more easily than the spilbrecher, who by his actions destroys the fragile world of the game, exposes its relativity, and therefore should be expelled from the game, i.e.To. threaten the very existence of the gaming community.

“AND THE FIGHT CONTINUES AGAIN”
https://sportsbettingmedia.co.uk/latest-news/live-betting-esports-counter-strike-2 />Neither general censure nor the fear of losing an account deters lovers of easy victories and KDA from using illegal software:
1. Getting information:
1.1. WallHack – highlighting opponents through walls
1.2. MapHack - Ignoring the Fog of War

2. Removing visual effects:
2.1. No smoke – ignoring the smoke effect
2.2. No flash – ignoring the glare effect
3. Control Modification:
3.1. Aimbot – automatic aiming at the enemy
3.2. Triggerbot – software that performs a key action. Initially used in Counter-Strike as an alternative to aimbot: the player himself controlled the sight, the bot “pulled the trigger” at the moment the sight came into contact with the enemy. In Dota 2, there was a Techies for the hero: the “Remote Mines” ability places a radio-controlled mine that disappears after ten minutes; it explodes only upon the commands “Pinpoint Detonate” - explosion of one mine or “Focused Detonate” - detonation of all mines in a certain radius. The script exploded “Pinpoint Detonate” mines at once, exactly as much as was necessary to kill the character
3.3. No recoil – compensates for weapon recoil
4. Obtaining superpowers:
4.1. SpeedHack – huge speed
4.2. JumpHack - high jump
4.3. Dupe - creating duplicates of things
“Legal fraud” occupies a special place in the field of cheating in multiplayer games:

1. Boosting is the process of pumping up an account by a strong player, and then transferring it to a weaker player, usually a fee is charged for this. After transferring the account into the hands of the customer, a situation occurs when the player finds himself with stronger opponents and allies, being at a lower level of play. This type of cheating was common in Dota 2 until 29.09.2017, when Valve began banning players using booster services for periods ranging from a month to eight years.
2. Bagojuz - exploitation of errors in the game mechanics. Often many “bugs” turn into “features” (jumping in the Quake series).
3. Botting is a common type of fraud in MMORPGs, in which control of the game character is left to an algorithm. The bot performs “routine” tasks: farming mobs, extracting resources, etc.d., doing it without interruption. In 2009, in one of the issues of the magazine “Gaming”, a story by a bot owner was published: the story is quite informative and interesting, I recommend reading.
4. Stream sniping is the process of obtaining game information about an enemy by watching his or a neutral stream. Can be overcome by setting a delay on the stream, but not completely. In eSports it is punishable by long disqualifications. I would also like to mention stream sniping in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds – where this type of cheating is punishable by excommunication from the game for a period of one week. But in June of this year, a player with the nickname Lotoe received his share of punishment for the murder of the famous streamer SummitIG. The defendant did not admit guilt; he went to Reddit for justice, where he successfully found it. That's what they are, cheaters in PUBG (but that's not for sure).
The problem of cheating in the gaming industry is being solved, but complete victory is far from complete. There are MRAC, PunkBuster, VAC, GameGuard, X-RayAC direct moderation on servers.
Things are even worse in single player games. No moderation (with rare exceptions), no negativity addressed to you - a prank, and that’s all. But that's not true. A single-player game is first and foremost a game, and its solitary character is questionable. It also has rules, also forms a community, and is also easily destroyed under the onslaught of spirebreakers. Speedrunners are the same game offenders, they play their own game, a game over time that rarely has anything in common with the main game.
The influence of cheaters (any kind) on the gaming community is great: many people leave games unprotected from violators (the outflow of people from Dota 2 is partly due to the huge number of boosted accounts), some also become dishonest, arguing with the proverb: “To live with wolves is to howl like a wolf.”. Returning to “Homo Ludens”, it should be mentioned that spielbreakers tend to create their own groups, often with playful features. These are, for example:
— Gathering of speedrunners “GamesDoneQuick” - held annually since 2010, in winter and summer. Charity marathons where speedrunners play any game, regardless of year of release, publisher, platform, etc.d. The entire event is broadcast on the official Twitch channel, and all funds raised go to the Cancer Prevention Foundation and Doctors Without Borders.
— Zorgee Forum.ru “Cheaters’ District” is a forum for cheaters, one of many. Created by cheaters for cheaters and their sympathizers. A stronghold for advertising promotion sites, the latest achievements of British scientists in the field of botonology and cheating. Initially, our beloved StopGame was like this before the departure of Maxim Kulakov and Co. from PlayGround.
Many users want to commit lynching over offenders: according to Yandex.wordstat the top 10 queries containing the word “cheater” include “download winlocker with password to punish cheaters” (note.WinLocker is a virus that blocks Windows operation).

TRAGIC END
To summarize: cheaters destroy the community of like-minded people, their activities are destructive in the vast majority of cases. In Hell, from Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy", those who deceived those who trusted them went to the ninth circle, and there was a second ditch where those who deceived like-minded people were placed. Based on the above: before it’s too late, remove wh, ArtMoney and CheatEngine, otherwise you will find yourself between Colonel Shepard and Volodya Lem. That's all..

AFTERWORD
If you've read this far, well done. As a reward, you will receive, sign – a couple of paragraphs about the donation.
According to Huizinga, the game is abstracted from the real world. Place, time, laws of conduct - all this separates the game from the world of seriousness. Adding currency to the game that is obtained through non-game means is a scam. The game world is autonomous. Immersing ourselves in the game, we move away from our everyday life and try on the skin of a character.
Our avatars should not depend on our material success in the real world. Gaming achievements are supposed to depend on gaming skills, which should correlate with the time spent in the game. The money factor is inappropriate here...At all. The game world is already too vulnerable, there is no need to test its strength once again.
Unfortunately, the creation of video games has long been a business, not least in which marketing plays a role. The goal of marketing is not to sell what has been created, but to create something that sells. As long as people buy legalized cheats, loot boxes, etc.d.: they will be present. Now the Internet is celebrating the victory over Electronic Arts, saying: “Now they’ll come to their senses, now we’ll live.”. No. If we don’t come to our senses, we won’t live. EA removed microtransactions only from Star Wars – Battlefront 2 for processing; they are still there in FIFA 18, although the public is unhappy. The dust will settle, the anger will subside - everything will return to normal. Although testers are already wary of the p2w system in UFC 3.

The only way to stop the chaos is to boycott any monetary contributions to game content, at least those that affect the balance. Now that's really all.