{"id":10064,"date":"2023-12-24T12:32:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T12:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/?p=10064"},"modified":"2023-12-24T12:32:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T12:32:22","slug":"gamers-are-gaming-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/blog\/2023\/12\/24\/gamers-are-gaming-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamers Are Gaming the Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent Reddit comment has me thinking about the signal from the future arising in the crisis of gamer cheating:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>2023 Red Dead Online hackers are insane<br \/>\nPosted by Simple-Interview-690 \u00b7<br \/>\nin<br \/>\nr\/RedDeadOnline<\/p>\n<p>3 days ago<br \/>\nI started playing Red Dead Online about a month ago. I swear to god I have seen hackers in every server, every day. I didn&#8217;t really care as much until I got teleported to jail with a bunch of other players, couldn&#8217;t escape. Another one was doing story mission and a hacker thought it was a good idea to turn us all into UFO&#8217;s. I couldn&#8217;t see anything, aim at anything but I eventually left.<\/p>\n<p>I know this is a tired, old complaint, but I study cybersecurity and I actually want to do something about this. It&#8217;s not just about Red Dead Online, it&#8217;s about all online games at this point. What&#8217;s the point of playing video games online if people can spam treasure chests, have godmode and other advantages?<\/p>\n<p>Basically what I&#8217;m trying to say is does anyone know if there is a way to find the root cause of the hacking? Maybe the websites where they get the mods and report it to Rockstar? I know I can put myself in an only player lobby, but the whole point of online is that you are playing with other players.<\/p>\n<p>I just don&#8217;t see why we should just sit down and let it happen. If they can figure out a way to hack, we can figure out a way to counteract it. It&#8217;s all code at the end of the day. If I could get paid by Rockstar for the sole purpose of eliminating hackers, suing mod creators etc. I would totally do it.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone have any information on how to bring the hackers down?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cheating for no reason.\u00a0 Cheating for some reason.\u00a0 It is all of a piece&#8211;the game ends even as the players want to keep on.\u00a0 Is &#8220;gaming&#8221; a symbol and signal from the future, larger than life and frightening?\u00a0 Some people view war as a game, finance as a casino, and lobbying as a way to play the system.\u00a0 Cheating is rampant in these games.\u00a0 I worry what signal we receive from the future if this is so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent Reddit comment has me thinking about the signal from the future arising in the crisis of gamer cheating: 2023 Red Dead Online hackers are insane Posted by Simple-Interview-690 \u00b7 in r\/RedDeadOnline 3 days ago I started playing Red Dead Online about a month ago. I swear to god I have seen hackers in<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/blog\/2023\/12\/24\/gamers-are-gaming-the-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-tellio","post-10064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-clmooc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10065,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10064\/revisions\/10065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}