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It feels like cheating as become endemic, every game I've played online in the last 2-3 years seems to be rampant with cheating. I don't remember it being this big of an issue 5-10 years ago, or maybe I was just ignorant to it? It's at the point now where I run into cheaters frequently enough that I find it hard to justify investing time into multiplayer games anymore.

I can only assume the recent uptick is due to games adding tradable cosmetic items which has made it financially viable to cheat as most cheaters seem happy to drop a lot of money on cheats as well as $80 to re-buy a game once they eventually get banned.

Don’t most games with expensive cosmetics lock them behind paywalls?

I assume there is lots of cheating because of every game having matchmaking system for fair with rankings. And there’s a huge amount of people that feel locked into low ranking because of bad teammates (which makes no sense statistically speaking), and if they just bump something they would do well.

There’s others who just want to showoff an high ranking.

And the guys that just want a cheap win, at the expense of ruining everyone else game.

And then there’s the business of this. Cheat tool makers making money of these lind of people. High ranking players selling boosting services or high ranking accounts (smurfing and cheating feels very similar on the loosing side). And even the high ranking players selling player providing boosting can cheat to perform the service in less time.

Skill based matchmaking with any form of public ranking (showing a number or tier) will always be full of people trying to game the system instead of trying to get better at the game. Specially in team games.