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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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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