by Calimero » 03 Jul 2014, 02:18
When X-trap was implemented on another mmo i know to prevent people to cheat, it has taken up to 2 days for the cheaters to find how to bypass it and be back again. Now X-Trap is annoying only the legit players whith countless bugs and by making the game impossible to play under linux, while the cheaters are laughing their asses of being free of this thing. Like drms on movies and music are annonying only for the legit customer who has spend his hard earned cash on his product and not for pirates downloading drm-free versions on the internet.
The right way to deal with cheaters is server-side solutions, knowing how to code properly your game so that it will not be full of holes and gm presence on servers, not putting a spyware/rootkit crap on every computer of your customers. Seriously these kind of things are so inneffective (the game i have seen the most cheaters on was gameguard protected) that i sometime wonder if they are not doing something else like giving all your private infos on your pc to the nsa.