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How I Defeated an MMO Game Hack Author

In the late 2000's, I worked at a niche MMO game company. We had a small team, not a lot of money, but a loyal audience. It was a game of skill without any of the usual powerups and unreality, and the players enjoyed the challenge. Then, one day, we

It ranged from slowly reducing the accuracy of any weapons during a session to changing them to Bozo The Clown to having a giant arrow floating in the sky pointing to the location of the hacked user, but not in their view. Games like World of Tanks (which I play today) are server-adjudicated, so all decisions based on user input are made in the safety of the server. There are still ways to cheat; a popular thing in WOT is to pay companies to join in games in low population times that they have stuffed with non-playing tanks, which you can then kill for enormous damage or experience, for bragging rights.

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