Using cheats, hacks, and bots
is the new practice that plagues the world of video games.
Since its inception, honest players became much more alert
being ready to spot any suspicious sign that might indicate cheating.
But sometimes things are not what they appear to be, and there are quite a few cases
where gamers have been falsely accused of cheating simply because their game play was too good.
And this is why we're going to take a look at five of the most popular instances that deal with this issue.
A veteran Battlefield One player told us how he was accused of cheating
and got banned by EA's fair fight technology
even though he swears he didn't use any type of hacking software.
This long time gamer has been playing Battlefield for more than fourteen years, but
as he is just an anonymous player, he didn't understand why EA Sports decided to disable his account.
Even though he didn't receive any plausible reply,
Renato thinks that someone with the same IP address could have been using cheat codes,
and this is the reason for his own banning.
A seventeen year old Korean player that goes by the Twitter handle Geguri
has been wrongfully accused of cheating in Overwatch.
After masterfully playing with the hero Zaria and managing to score an eighty percent win rate,
this Korean girl had a dominant performance at the Nexus Cup,
her opponents feeling intimidated and condemning her of illegal hacking.
To prove her real worth, Geguri took to the stage some days after the competition
and gave everyone an hour-long representation of her talent,
showing that gaming is not only a boy's world.
Philip "Clever" Lough, a pro player of Rainbow Six Siege, has been in the attention of the public eye for
allegedly using a kind of ESP, or wall hacking, a cheat that allows players to see opponents through walls.
From the YouTube videos made on this subject, it seems that Clever has a second monitor somewhere to his right
that he is checking from time to time.
Anyway, there are no solid arguments that can prove he was definitely cheating,
the video compilations available being considered out of context.
After saying that he feels totally innocent,
Clever hasn't played any other matches since the accusatory videos started to surface.
Kristoffer "Mytic" Michelsen is a CS:GO player not very popular outside of the Norwegian scene,
but after he was recruited by LGB eSports to fill the vacant spot left by one of their star players,
a rumour about cheating surfaced online.
It seems that a Steam account tied to Mystic appeared to have a recent CS:GO VAC ban,
a thing that raised quite a lot of suspicion towards the legitimacy of this new player.
LGB, in collaboration with Valve, led an investigation into the subject
and found that the rumours didn't match their findings, and therefore are entirely false.
After releasing an absolutely unbelievable sniping compilation,
Willy Mammoth was accused of cheating by many players in the Battlefield community.
Totally jealous of the prehistoric cocksman's extraordinary skill and thick trunk,
social media was rife with accusations of hacking,
specifically that he was using some form of aimbot.
They even went as far as to accuse Willy of taking performance enhancing drugs!
(which he actually admitted to in his video.)
His flawlessly timed sniping is a thing of perfection and it's no wonder that
many other players felt that it's impossible to be that good and not use any kind of tricks.
But we all have to face it. Willy Mammoth is the real MVP.
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