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Cheating Online Games eBook
by Gary McGraw
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Windows 98SE+, Mac OS X+, Palm Features
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Cheating Online Games Summary
| "This digital Shortcut, delivered in Adobe PDF format for quick and easy access, is an introduction to issues surrounding piracy and cheating in the online gaming industry. Online games are now big business; Microsoft estimates that games that run on their platforms alone accounted for $6 billion of revenue in 2005. Although the financial stakes in online gaming are high, gamers themselves are often tempted to pirate software or to cheat the system to improve their performance. This digital Shortcut will review the economics of online gaming and discuss the methods gaming companies use to prevent piracy and cheating. You will learn how a program designed for one game, World of Warcraft, keeps watch of your game-play by scanning your computer for open processes and mails the information it collects back to its creator, Blizzard Entertainment. We?ll also show you how to run a program named the Governor to keep watch of the watchers and know exactly what Blizzard Entertainment is doing on your computer. After reading this short, you'll also have a much better understanding of virtual world economics and understand why companies take the steps they do. We?ll also discuss ethical issues surrounding piracy, cheating, and corporate measures to stop both. Cheating Online Games (Digital Shortcut) . What This Shortcut Will Cover . A Brief History of Cheating . Defeating Piracy by Going Online . Or Not... . The Lawyers Have Landed Bearing EULAs . The Rise of MMORPGs . The WoW Warden Is Watching . Cheating Is Quick and Easy . Grinding Is Boring and Dull . Farming Makes Things Easy . Virtual-World Economics . Farming Hurts the Virtual Economy . Games as Reality . Cracking Down on Farming . Online Game, Real-World Cheating . Defeating Cheaters and Crossing the Line . The Governor Watches the Watcher Cheating Online Games contains information that will appear in Gary McGraw and Greg Hoglund?s forthcoming book, Exploiting Online Games: How to Break Multi-User Computer Games (... |
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