Thread 717664916

why did fun game cheats die out?

>>717664916 (OP)
Developers realized they could make more money with microtransactions.

Reminder that cheating in online games is a trans-coded activity.

>>717664916 (OP)
They are called trainers now and they still exist.

>>717665116
>my country tax payer money funded this shit study
I ain't debate that it's wrong, but holy shit... trust the """science"""
I studied the wrong thing if I could just leech taxes for 40 years like this by making trannies play games with aimbots

/v/ always finds a way to make a thread about trannies

They sold them off as microtransactions and DLC.

>>717664916 (OP)
I never unlocked Sonic and Tails in melee despite cheat planet telling me it was possible...

>>717664916 (OP)
I was a gamewinners ALPHA.

>>717665215
It would be a cheap study to run, you just ask EA/Riot for cheater user profiles and count the troon flags.

>cheatplanet and cheatcc
Those were the days.

>>717665116
what does this have to do with games no longer shipping with a bighead cheat you mongoloid

>>717665131
>installing rootkits just to cheat
i seriously hope you dont do that in 2011+14

>>717664916 (OP)
I'm a developer for a corporation:

Code reviews that have to be co-signed by several parties, every change has to go through several execs and explained to them, literal micro management hell where you can't slide in funny stuff or otherwise you get implicated in software sabotage, etc. Also since the past decade developers are being taught to deliver the most minimally viable product, so you don't really have time to add quirky stuff, because everything you do was already planned out by psychologists, analysts and other data lake adjacent freaks.

>>717670620
>he doesn't know
Sad. Even the modern day's almost completely tech illiterate average users can use safe ones if they know where to look. And anyone with a modicum of understanding and persistence can very easily make his own even.

>>717664916 (OP)
Because silly cheat settings would ruin the sanctity of the game's artistic value and atmosphere, which MUST be taken as seriously as possible

>>717670814
How long do you estimate until you finally snap? Have you started making a plasma cutter?

>>717671014
what about a big head mode tho?

>>717665131
Do trainer have big head mode?

>Before
Shoot ten guys in the head to unlock "big head mode"
>Now
Pay $5 to unlock "Big head mode!" it's just cosmetic, so it's all good goy!

>>717665050
It's more the Internet than anything else.
Sure you can say mtx killed it but you have to remember that towards the end of the 90s and early 2000s cheats were made for similar reasons, to sell magazines and books with the codes.

Built-in cheats were banned mainly because they interfere with data farming (achievements)

>>717664916 (OP)
corps started being more restrictive about budget and what goes into the games so devs weren't able to sneak in fun stuff anymore

Alright anons, what cheat codes have been burned into your brain and will never leave?
For me, it's a shitload of Iggy's Reckin' Balls cheats. TOOMUCHPIE and HAPPYHEADS were my go-to.

>>717664916 (OP)
Nowadays they're called Seeded Runs.

>>717671067
Don't be fooled, i'm part of the problem that makes corporations boring and unappealing for devs. I do the least amount of work, never innovate, always lazy, work like 2 hours a day out of the 9 I get paid, never clock in my breaks, etc. Shit moves so slowly in a corporation because of all the stuff I talked about and all of them don't understand what "agile" really is, so I just don't give a shit anymore as it beats going back into construction where I have ruined my body. If I snapped I would've just switched to a startup where you can do rockstar shit without any form of documentation and receipts

>>717671389
pepperoni pizza

>>717671389
LAIMLAME
for years I had no idea what it meant

>>717671324
Don't games generally disable achievements when you cheat anyway? I think that's how GTA used to do it anyway

>>717671389
nwcfafnir
blacksheepwall
A C Up B Up B A Down

>>717671389
Technically not a cheat code but
ENGAGE RIDLEY
MOTHER FUCKER

>>717665116
Unsurprising. They are trying to cheat and play on easy mode in real life.

>>717671389
HESOYAM

>>717671389
Level select for Sonic 3D Blast.
B-A-Right-Right-A-C-Up-Down-A
Fucking loved how easy it was to remember BARRACUDA

>>717664916 (OP)
achievements

>>717671389
Bewareoblivionisathand
iddqd
idkfa
chicken
radiofreezerg
poweroverwhelming
foodforthought
nwcnebuchadnezzar

HEYBUDDY

HEVYFEET

A, A, B, B, X, X, Y, Y, A, B, X, Y

>>717664916 (OP)
2 reasons
- devs have better test environments, so they don't rely on cheats, can use the tools they have for testing and shit
- turns out gamers are willing to buy what used to be cheat codes for real money

>>717672120
damn, gamers are suckers huh?

>>717664916 (OP)
God I miss the old internet.
>>717671389
BEWAREOBLIVIONISATHAND for Turok 2

>>717671389
rosebud

>>717671389
Motherlode is the classic

>>717671389
id + escape key to get a picture of the id Software team in Spear of Destiny

>>717665116
This is only correlation. Trans people statistically have higher IQs, and people with higher IQs are more likely to cheat (and get away with it)

>>717671389
Xanadu, Supercroc and Cretaceous corral in zoo tycoon, i remember these specifically because you're supposed to rename an exhibit to these to unlock the unicorn, deinosuchus and triceratops
specifically RENAME, because creating an exhibit with those names made my computer BSOD every time and scared the shit out of me

>>717664916 (OP)
games don't have to be fun to sell in current year

>>717664916 (OP)
>why did fun game cheats die out?
paid cheats became a thing