Tuesday, 4 August 2020

Go read this Motherboard article about a prolific vigilante taking down cheaters in Overwatch and Valorant

Overwatch

Game developers are in a nonstop battle with cheaters, and now some developers are getting an extra hand from an anti-cheat vigilante frustrated with people who give themselves an unfair advantage.

Motherboard staff writer Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai profiled Mohamed “GamerDoc” Al-Sharifi, a 24-year-old who has spent a significant amount of time and energy hunting down cheaters in both Overwatch and Valorant. Al-Sharifi says he despises cheaters and feels games are “ruined” by people who unfairly want an upper hand. He’s become infamous in the cheating community as “an asshole who sends cheat loaders to Riot,” one cheat developer told Motherboard. At one point, Vice mentions that someone even created a GoFundMe page to hire an...

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source https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/4/21352579/motherboard-gamerdoc-profile-anti-cheat-gaming-hunter-overwatch-valorant

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