# Would you sell game hacks or cheats for quick cash?

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [August 6, 2019, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-sell-game-hacks-or-cheats-for-quick-cash/838218 "2019-08-06T03:43:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2019, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-sell-game-hacks-or-cheats-for-quick-cash/838218/21 "2019-08-10T04:52:28Z")

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Sure. I’d do it.

As it happens, I am an experienced systems developer and have done a fair amount of reverse engineering. And even made a game cheat once (a very minor one), though I never distributed it.

I have no need to make money like that, but supposing I were out of a job for a while and burning through my savings, I’d consider it, at least if I could ensure I wasn’t committing an actual crime.

I pretty much consider multiplayer games to be a toxic mess anyway, so adding more cheating to the mix wouldn’t bother me much. In fact I’d probably consider it a personal challenge to build a system that was undetectable.

Personally, I wouldn’t use it. I’ve no need for fake internet points to begin with, let alone faked fake internet points.

I wouldn’t pretend that there’s anything laudable about writing hacks… but there are scummier jobs out there.

Ideally, I’d stick to cheats for single-player games, like the trainers of yore. That’s 100% ethical. But I don’t think there’s a market for those.

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