South Korea Makes Game Hacking Illegal

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Professional electronic sports, better known as eSports, have seen huge growth in recent years, but this pro category of gaming really got off the ground in South Korea. Competitions have been held there for almost 17 years, and they have become extremely competitive to the point where some players will take any advantage they can get, including cheating using scripts.

Scripts allow a player to gain an advantage in their competitive game of choice without having to put in the required time and effort to become a great player. For example, scripts can allow a player to aim perfectly every time, carry out repetitive tasks automatically and/or faster, or actually hack a game system to gain an advantage, e.g. more loot drops. It can also be a very profitable business for those producing the scripts and programs to run them. They can earn thousands of dollars selling them.

LoL Helper earned its developers $350,000 before they were shut down, but the problem of scripting has now resulted in the South Korean government taking a much more drastic step. According to PVPLive, a law amendment means that the creation and distribution of programs meant to hack or modify a game are now illegal.

This is no idle threat by the government. Anyone caught distributing such programs will face a fine of up to $43,000 or jail time of up to 5 years. That's surely going to make people think twice about pursuing game hacking as a career path.

Game publishers will be very keen to put this law into action if they can trace game hacks created for their titles back to South Korea. And who's to say such a law won't be considered by other

 

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This is no idle threat by the government. Anyone caught distributing such programs will face a fine of up to $43,000 or jail time of up to 5 years

Alright alright, it's not April Fools yet so calm down!

 

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Thanks for the share

For example, scripts can allow a player to aim perfectly every time,

= >A real good prog for hacking may add certain errors / imperfections, to behave more like an human.
It reminds me some interrupts scripts used for PVP in Word Of Warcraft arenas or Battle grounds : the fact that all casts where always stopped with the same timing was a clue.

 

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People can say the LoL Anti-cheat is better than CS:GO or other game... but you always have some critical thing something can be bypass..

 

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People can say the LoL Anti-cheat is better than CS:GO or other game... but you always have some critical thing something can be bypass..

Them banning game hacking is in reality an idiotic idea because there may be very skilled people in South Korea who are capable of bypassing protection mechanisms integrated into Anti-Cheat (e.g. heavens gate to add to the confusion + bypass process protection and hook detection that some anti-cheat has, etc); people finding ways around the system will help the publisher improve once they get hold of the sample to analyse how it works/method of how it's being bypassed, potentially.

The more people you have testing and trying to circumvent protection methods = the better it can become improved. Potentially.

 

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Them banning game hacking is in reality an idiotic idea because there may be very skilled people in South Korea who are capable of bypassing protection mechanisms integrated into Anti-Cheat (e.g. heavens gate to add to the confusion + bypass process protection and hook detection that some anti-cheat has, etc); people finding ways around the system will help the publisher improve once they get hold of the sample to analyse how it works/method of how it's being bypassed, potentially.

The more people you have testing and trying to circumvent protection methods = the better it can become improved. Potentially.

Sometimes you don't need any application to make advantage... just little script if you understand(Bash or whatever) I can explain example, CS 1.6 i have been use strafe script and make it like triple more jump than others can bypass the Vac anti cheat, KQLY the pro player used script .. on CSGO i dont remember he used in own config. lol