Do cheaters deserve these punishments? (The answer is yes.)
As human beings, we may be moving beyond the brutal and irreversible punishments of the past towards fairer and kinder societies. But as gamers, we all love to seeserved justice—boiling hot, freezing cold, or in whatever elaborate fashion the developer has cooked up for them.
Over the years, game studios have devised many cruel and unusual methods for disposing of cheats and pirates—reviving ancient punishments, inventing horrors of their own, or taking advantage of technology’s capacity to be cold and unforgiving. Some of them probably say more about the jeering onlookers than the victims, but hey—it’s not us in the stocks today.Roma Victor was an ambitious MMORPG set during the Roman Empire's last days in Britain.
Instead of being banned, these players' characters would be literally crucified. Lawbreakers' avatars would be hung up on a cross in a very public place, where other players could jeer and throw stuff at them. The first ever crucified player was Cynewulf, a 27-year-old electrical engineer from Flint, Michigan who was caught ganking new players. For his crimes, he hung on the cross for seven days.method of dealing with cheaters has secured its place in PC gaming history.
solution, stopping cheaters from logging in altogether. But other developers persist: earlier this year Infinity Ward created similar cheater arenas for Call of Duty: Warzone. —When I was growing up, Botany Bay was the name of a converted mill in Chorley, north-west England, with a soft play area that boasted an enormous ball pit.
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