Ever wondered why some guys can just not be beaten when you play online games. You always loose and end up paying. Cheating in online games is very much a possibility. For all you know the other guy has manipulated the system to always win. Read how.

Some players give themselves the ability to shoot through wall or fly. This gives them an added advantage over the normal player. You have to understand how the complex games are played. They use central servers as well as data from your computer. Servers recognize the number of clicks on your computer and convert them, say, to the bullets fired by a player. If a players hacks into the system and manipulates it to read 100 clicks for every 10 clicks on his computer, then his pistol gets upgraded to a machine gun. Thus he will always have an advantage over the ordinary player.

Such cheating tools are flourishing on the Internet. They are becoming a big business as online games proliferate. In a new book titled “Exploiting Online Games,” its authors Gary McGraw and Greg Hoglund have said that poor software design enables such cheating. The game designers need to do much more than they are doing presently to ensure that their games are hack free and cannot be manipulated by certain players.

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