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I'm developing an online game. What stops me from having a command in my game where if a player is cheating or botting I invoke the command which starts deleting important shit on their hard drives and fucks up their computer? Is this legal?

I'm developing an online game. What stops me from having a command in my game where if a player is cheating or botting I invoke the command which starts deleting important shit on their hard drives and fucks up their computer? Is this legal?

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[–] 9 pts

What are you a pajeet?

I ask because only a pajeet would think this is maybe a good idea

It is likely very illegal yes and I'm not a lawyer, play that game and you'll likely get a decade in prison, it's the equivalent of destruction of private property/home invasion, a stupid home made license saying it's ok won't cut it, to be clear

And I wouldn't play that game if I were you... Even if it was "legal"

It's ill advised on your part, very stupid business decision

What will others players think of that? I will tell you, it's likely going to damage your brand, to begin with, nobody wants that sort of shit on his computer

And who's going to be responsible for the damages if this destructive system is used by somebody else? Never occured to you that you could eventually lose control of it?

You're going to be held responsible

Don't be an idiot and instead rethink your server side code, something is wrong with it, obviously, for you to need to resort to that sort of shit to prevent people from cheating

[–] 0 pt

Nah it's a good idea I'm doing it.

[–] 3 pts

Ok

You'll end up in prison lol, because people will likely label your game as a trojan horse / malware, and rightly so because that's exactly what it is

So it's going to be a disaster, evidently

[–] 0 pt

Listen here pal, no ones ruin my game's econemy like SEGA let players do in multiple PSO releases ruining my childhood gaming experience.

[–] [deleted] 4 pts (edited )

just ban them. who cares?

dad might beat the shit out of them.

some young white kid / white child might get their parents stuff deleted by accident.

not everyone lives in a perfect home either so they might get the shit beat out of them. dad beats the shit out of the white son / white child or whoever.

we don't live in a perfect world like that.

[–] 0 pt

Good point.

[–] [deleted] 1 pt (edited )

Here's a couple of stories outside of that.

first one is due to the father losing a video game. Important work files that get the dad fired or stuff like that alone. The first story is just about losing a video game. - side note: written terribly on purpose.

find 100s if not 1000s of stories like this alone. chicago is kind of cherry picking to be fair though.

https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/05/06/father-accused-killing-infant-son-after-losing-video-game/

https://abcnews.go.com/US/dad-accused-killing-year-son-police-searching-boys/story?id=62033373


side note if we lived in a perfect world. I'd kind of welcome that with open arms, but even people do make mistakes and cheat.


I don't like cheaters myself. I'm coming up on 10 years with steam (deleted 115 games - didn't want that filth in my life alone (much of it at least) - have less than 5 now - kind of out of gaming myself). I'm at 8 or 9 myself. Never been vac banned for cheating or anything like that.

It's annoying though

[–] 3 pts

That's not a game then, it's malware.

[–] 0 pt

I would instead focus on fucking with their game saves, the UI, or something that's less likely to get you in to a lawsuit issue.