Yes, how very silly of you to think that. Here, take a complimentary tranquilizer. Everything is under control, just as it always is.
Now that someone brings up WOW…
I can’t say I’ve seen any actual cheating in that game. What I have seen is really high level characters attacking much weaker ones. The imbalance is such that the lower player can’t even hit the higher one, then get taken out with one hit. This is fun fro you people? Really? Killing entire towns of player 50-60 levels under you? Then hanging around to make sure none of them can respawn and enjoy the game. Douche bags, might as well use god mode at that point.
Oh holy crap, Diablo. I’d nearly forgotten all the stupid shit I’d seen in that game. Ghosting was the worst. Walking around invisible killing people and taking their stuff. Made the game unplayable except for private games with friends.
I got a friend to join me playing Diablo II online. She didn’t want to, mostly because of the crap that went down in Diablo. So we play for a while on Battle.net, no problems. One day, she decides to get on and play on her own. She joins some game with people she didn’t know. In the first 3 seconds she was there her character unequips and drops all his stuff, and then quits. She logged back in and tried to rejoin the game, and couldn’t. She never got on Battle.net again.
Wait, hold on, I was probably unclear.
I have had no bad experiences with WoW or CoH. Both games have done an outstanding job in keeping out hackers as far as I’ve seen. My point was simply that despite the positive experiences I’ve had with both it hasn’t convinced me to experiment with less moderated environments.
I’m not playing any MMO’s at the moment but that has more to do with finances than cheaters. 
I’ll say nothing more than I agree with VT here.
ISTM that nothing less than vigilance on the part of real live moderators truly keeps out cheaters on a consistent basis.
Yeah that was pretty much what happened to me on the original Diablo as well. Except I was killed before hand by someone I had spent 10 minutes conversing with.
Aside from the whole “hacking/cheating” thing, random people just acting like assholes can really sour the experience.
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Yup.
Come on man, at least do it right.
Observe:
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I used to play Scrabble® online until some dipshit played WHARFAGES on a treble treble for eleventymillion points.
Wharfages ? do me a favour
I agree with Regallag on the griefers. The final straw that made me give up on Urban Dead was some idiot who decided to take advantage of the fact that there is literally no defense against a human killing a human.
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If this is actually |_||33r /-|)//-||(3|) !33t and not just some random numbers, I bow before your superiority. In other words, ! g()t p//|||).
PS |_|r g@y
I don’t play online games but found the book Exploiting Online Games quite interesting. For some the challenge in developing the hack is more satisfying than the game itself.
In all honesty, I at least have some respect for the people who make aimbots and such. They are putting some work into it, even if it’s not exactly the right kind. It’s the people who simply download trick du jour who are annoying.
Actually, it seems like COD 5 (or World at War) has relatively few glitches, although I did inadvertently end up flying through the sky on the Castle map once.
Since I don’t think it’s possible to have cheats on the console games, I’ve been assuming that it has something to do with the way that Activision, or whoever is responsible for the online aspect of the game, set things up. Seems like some kind of connection issue, or something. Whatever it is, there are times where some opponents seem relatively harder to kill, and conversely kill me either with fewer shots or just faster than usual, and it seems to influence whole teams, so you end up seeing very lopsided scores.
Whatever the reason, it sucks, and I hope that Infinity Ward’s upcoming iteration is a return to the quality of COD 4.
Do you play BF2 under hotflungwok?
I remember running into one while playing America’s Army. The guy clearly had an aimbot as he would run immediately to the peak in the center of the map and instantly pick off defenders, regards of how spread out or concealed we were. Further, the guy had chosen a username made up of twenty hash marks ("||||…|") which for some reason stymied the VOTEKICK option. So he was cheating, he knew people would realize he was cheating, and took steps to ensure his cheating would not be interrupted, all so he could run to the top of a virtual hill and kill ten virtual guys over and over without variation.
I got tired of it, told my teammates I was switching sides to offense. I happened to get the sniper rifle and when the round started, there was 20-hash running for the peak yet again. I took aim, put one in the back of his head, watched him fall.
I got kicked from the game for teamkilling. It was worth it.
Yeah, they are more sparse as time goes on. The ones I can think of seeing off-hand are the sky one in Castle, under the map in Castle, and in the sky in Outskirts.
I used to play a fair bit of Battlefield: 1942 and CounterStrike: Source, and noticed some of the same things as the OP- people picking you off from the other side of the map through gaps in cover almost literally 1 pixel wide, enemy aircraft that would suddenly seem to “de-cloak” behind you and blow your plane up with one very short burst (yet when you had them in your sights you could put all 600 rounds of your plane’s ammo into them and not even scratch the paintwork, so to speak), players who seemed to teleport all over the map (no lag involved, they’d just vanish from one point and re-appear instantly on the other side of the map), and that sort of thing.
It certainly put me off on-line gaming a bit, but it was, fortunately, a fairly rare occurrence in the grand scheme of things. It’s sad but I’m really not sure there’s much that can be done about it, unfortunately. 
Yup, that’s me.