CipSoft Staying Strong Against Cheaters

from Casual Gamer Chick

CipSoft had announced the banning of 5,000 user accounts because they were cheating by using automated software. One would think that banning 5,000 users for cheating would serve as a warning to other people that were thinking about cheating or maybe weren’t caught cheating, but it didn’t. CipSoft just announced they banned another 5,163 accounts for using unofficial software.

Nobody likes cheaters and they become annoying to the every day players who are playing the game for enjoyment. CipSoft has developed tools that are really accurate at finding the cheaters. The tools will let Cipsoft know who is cheating, when they are cheating and how they are cheating,

CipSoft relies on a home made tool in order to identify the users of unofficial software automatically. “We are 100% confident about the accuracy of our tool.” says Matthias Rudy, Lead Programmer at CipSoft. “We now know exactly who is cheating, how they are cheating and when they are cheating.” Rudy reveals.

Hopefully CipSoft can find and punish all of the cheaters that are making the game less enjoyable for the non-cheating players. It is a shame that there are people out there that always want to game the system. Why bother playing the game if you want to cheat? It doesn’t make sense to me.

Press Release Follows:

Regensburg, March 4, 2009 — CipSoft continues its effort to eliminate all cheaters from Tibia. After a first wave at the beginning of February, CipSoft now banned another 5163 accounts for the use of unofficial software.

“Cheating is a nuisance for any multiplayer online game.” says Florian Eckert, responsible Product Manager at CipSoft. “For Tibia it is exceptionally annoying as its community has grown for over 12 years and during that time established a well balanced equilibrium.” Eckert continues. “We cannot and we will not tolerate any unfair interference to this.”

The use of unofficial software - generally referred to as ‘cheating’ - gives players an unfair advantage over others by automating tricky tasks or even controlling the whole character in game. Identifying players who use such programs can be a hard task as the used software is designed to imitate natural behaviour.

CipSoft relies on a home made tool in order to identify the users of unofficial software automatically. “We are 100% confident about the accuracy of our tool.” says Matthias Rudy, Lead Programmer at CipSoft. “We now know exactly who is cheating, how they are cheating and when they are cheating.” Rudy reveals.

Once identified, cheaters have to face severe consequences. Depending on their ‘criminal record’ some of the cheaters are only excluded from the game for a certain period of time. The accounts of other more intractable cheaters will be deleted completely.

When asked about CipSoft’s future plans and policy concerning cheating, Eckert admits “We’ve already pulled the trigger once, now we’ve pulled it a second time. It seems like we start to get the hang on it.”

Tibia is one of the oldest MMORPGs worldwide. It is online since 1997 and currently has a subscriber base of 120,000 players.