Social study of cheaters

[nosy]

www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27441/?p1=blogs

Thought there might be a few people here that would find this interesting. The conclusions are not particularly surprising, however there is one paragraph that stands out to me more so than the rest

Their idea is to use the structure of the network to predict the likelihood that a given player will become a cheat in future. In other words, the number of friends who are cheats determine how likely this player is to becoming infected with the 'cheating virus' in future, so to speak. They say they expect to do more work on this in future.

Just wondering about peoples thoughts on this

[bloxin]

haha yea can relate to alot to stuff iv seen and been in. teams who are mostly all caught who stick together like vio.
and players who cut themselves off and go private like cru always creating new xfires and stories. expected 700 000 cheaters, thats alot but i thought would be more

[Two Kittens]

the part that stood out for me was that cheat creators can make $50,000 a month going to have to start making haxes

[xill]

that refers to ingame currency than real world. its kinda like chinese gold farming in WoW.

[riddle]

Aimbot for l4d2 is like 30 bucks on helios, I am pretty sure that is a real dollar estimate.

[nosy]

It does actually have a real market, though $50,000 a month is outrageously optimistic for an individual. That wouldn't be a very surprising figure for the cheat industry as a whole however

[riddle]

Yeah, i was just making the real dollar statement, I can see one source of cheats hitting that mark though, if you think of them as companies.

[Tragic]

Hmm, interesting.