Should they buy one? Or maybe resort to stealing? What about installing botting scripts to level it procedurally? Regardless of the account acquisition medium, our intrepid cheater steps out into the frigid winter, engaging in an fascinating but futile ritual, where he or she will select Xerath or Kalista in approximately three games before reentering hibernation and beginning the cycle anew next spring. The migratory pattern of a scripter begins, like most beginnings, with the search for a new account. The scripting community can’t dodge a wrench, a ban, or a Blitz hook, but while we’ve driven them underground, we’re now playing a game of shadows. We’ve seen subscriptions as high as $300 USD, some even with the requirement that an image of your driver’s license be included for “verification purposes.” That last thing was particularly amusing, because it’s not like I don’t have access to an entire team of graphic designers with 200 years collective experience in Adobe Photoshop.Īnyways, I won’t sugarcoat it for the recruits: This isn’t a war we’ll ever win completely. Larger providers explicitly make no effort to circumvent our detection methodology, creating a private market for smaller providers utilizing ridiculous price points and promises of undetected cheats. So how did we pump the brakes on our scripting arms race? Strap in, we’re going for a ride.Ĭollectively, the scripting landscape isn’t quite what it used to be. We needed to reshape the way we actioned abuse to extend the functional longevity of each iterative response. Every hammer we swing is a signal to cheaters, and every update we make is eventually circumvented. To buy the time required to make tomorrow’s solution, we had to moderate the speed at which we were technologically advancing our own opposition. Einstein probably predicted, the human elements required to fabricate an entire anti-cheat platform had to be painfully extracted from the lifestream.
Up until now, we had just been tenaciously flinging resources at any adversary we could sink our teeth into, but as machiavellian as that strategy sounds, it unfortunately doesn’t scale through the multi-game universe.Īnti-cheat engineers have finite biomass, and as Dr. As Riot whimsically adds games to its catalogue, we find ourselves in the position of having to mount a defense against an ever-increasing number of bad guys.
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