Cheating Online Games

Grinding Is Boring and Dull

Using invasive technology such as a rootkit to control someone’s use of a game seems rather extreme until you consider the economic impact of automated game play. In most cases, automated game play is realized using special tools and scripts typically referred to as macros. For example, in WoW, monsters appear at specific locations on a periodic basis. You can easily write a macro that causes the in-game character to stand in that location and automatically kill the monster every time it appears (thus gaining experience points and virtual gold). Of course, you can do this manually yourself, waiting around all day for the monster to appear; given that the monster only appears every 10 minutes, however, that plan will ...