> Such as? It sounds to me like you're suggesting that Macs have fewer > viruses written for them because they have a great anti-virus program > inherent in the OS, not because they're nowhere near as common as > Windows boxes. > > -- > Eric (the Deacon remix) >
Nope, I'm not, every game out there has had their cheats, Quake3 really started to go downhill once OGC came out, end result Id contracted evenbalance, PB came out and sorted it, because they knew it was enough of a problem to kill the game, and cheat prevention isn't their core skillbase. Quake3 was getting full of them up until that point. For CoD exactly the same happened, the game got loads of cheats, PB came out, its reputation retrieved, same happened in BF1942. It's not like no cheats have been written, many of them use the same methods for all games. Then take a look at u2k4, it has one person from the company trying to keep up, and one person from the community (primarily, who may have given up..not sure), less player base to all the others, but more cheats get through, why? I think you're confusing the size of a gaming community with the ease it is to cheat. There are more cheats in CS because its so damn easy, not because its more popular. If PB hadn't come out for those other games there's would be more chats percentage wise than CS (and they probably would have died). If Valve had a contract with someone who's wages were directly related to their perceived performance in preventing cheats then you'll see how possible decent cheat prevention can actually be in CS. The point is everyone knows cheat prevention can be loads better in the game, so why not go down that route? More important than all of that I think is the perceived confidence as well by the community, if they believe a company is doing all they can to prevent cheating, they will generally support it. It's fine saying give people the benefit of the doubt with dodgy shots etc, as most admins do. But if its a case of there is too much suspicion in the first place, the problem is already established and the aim has failed. You want to remove that suspicion, and give people confidence in skills of a game to let it thrive. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
