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Cheating is also big business. Players can pay big bucks to rent (!) a cheat.

IIRC there is an episode on darkness diaries podcast about this.



What a bunch of absolute losers. If it's taught me anything though, it's that you can't underestimate the pathologies of people you encounter 'in the real world'.


Remember that at all times we are surrounded with people who are such leaches on society that they won't even put away a grocery cart at a supermarket, instead leaving it in the middle of the parking lot because they are too important to take the time to push it five feet.

Something like 10% of people are just maximally assholes, no justification, no reason, no rationale, they genuinely think everybody else exists only for their benefit.


Yeah I get that, I understand why cheat developers do what they do. It seems like there's a huge market and I find it hard to blame them trying to make a living- morality wise they're probably more worried about rent, bills, family than whether or not someone's game time is ruined. But it's only this way because so many people are willing enough to cheat that dropping money on it is fine for them. It's their psychology I don't really get. Even if they're doing it because they want the satisfaction of a "win", doesn't that victory feel hollow because it's something they paid money for? It's like the difference between a community valuing you enough to give you an award vs going down to the trophy shop and paying someone a make you your own trophy that doesn't really mean anything.




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