Nowadays, it seems like no game, no matter how big, is safe from the inevitable influx of cheaters. In the past couple of months alone, Elden Ring's PvP has been infiltrated by bad actors, as have the leaderboards of Monster Hunter Wilds, which, by the way, barely came out in late February.
In speaking with Gaming World Media’s Jake Lucky, Minh Le, who helped co-create Counter-Strike, called the situation an "epidemic."
"It’s an epidemic, because 20 years ago, when Counter-Strike was first out, cheating was a bit of an issue, but it never reached the levels that it is right now," Le explained (thanks Insider Gaming for the transcript). "Back when I was working on Counter-Strike, I would play game, I would probably encounter a cheater maybe 5 percent of the time, maybe 10 percent. But these days, when I’m jumping on a multiplayer game, it’s like maybe 40 percent or 50 percent of the time I’m running into some dubious (stuff) going on.
"As a player, you don’t want to play games that have that — and as a developer, you don’t want to make a game that’s being ruined by this. It’s a really...
