Kunshan police partenered with Tencent in order to crack down a cheat enabler group, who are mostly dedicated to providing cheats in the game Valorant. It is the greatest anti-cheat operation ever, according to the Chinese Police. The operation reportedly earned as much as $10,000 daily, with calculations estimating that the total profits could be around $750 million dollars during the organization’s lifetime.

Among the assets seized, valued at 46 million dollars, were high end sports cars.

The Chinese police known as Kunshan police were working with Tencent Games to take down the biggest Cheat provider based in China they were Jailed and around $46m in assets were Seized this is the BIGGEST GAME Cheating provider bust ever

Cheaters never prosper what a big win pic.twitter.com/WBfkjNiP2g

— Anti-Cheat Police Department 🕵️ (@AntiCheatPD) March 28, 2021

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Source (Portuguese)

 

[AncientBoi]

I know nothing of the subject on cheating. [hides all cheats and software]

 

[FAST6191]

I am still far from convinced that cheating in games has need of the filth being set upon you or courts getting involved.

 

[ChubSwagLad]

Such an investigation? For cheating in games? *sees that it's in China* Oh. Nevermind.

 

[FAST6191]

Such an investigation? For cheating in games? *sees that it's in China* Oh. Nevermind.

While "because China" is a thing and major factor in this

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/blizzard-sues-glider-creator

https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/epic-games-settles-three-year-lawsuit-against-teenage-fortnite-cheater/

https://gbatemp.net/threads/man-arrested-in-japan-for-selling-hacked-shiny-pokemon.582405/

 

[CMDreamer]

Such an investigation? For cheating in games? *sees that it's in China* Oh. Nevermind.

Being an online game, the point the investigation was made on China doesn't isolate its consequences. I don't think that they made all that profit from only chinese cheating customers.

 

[eyeliner]

Being an online game, the point the investigation was made on China doesn't isolate its consequences. I don't think that they made all that profit from only chinese cheating customers.

The profit part possibly was the motivator for the bust. I'd wager the Communist Party didn't like it one bit, considering that legitimate billionaire businesses operate there, like Tencent and that severely cuts profits, as the player base gets destroyed?

 

[BitMasterPlus]

No cheating allowed in China unless first approved by the Chinese Communist Party.

 

[HideoKojima]

Wonder who's really behind it.

 

[DinohScene]

To bad they can't cheat their way out of jail :')

 

[eskinner3742]

Am totally guilty of dealing out hacked pokemons on the playgrounds back in the day. I think I was the key supplier of modded mons in my town with prices ranging from 25 cents to $5 per monster. Custom orders available and shiny caterpies were always free.

 

[x65943]

How is that illegal? I mean I guess maybe they were committing tax fraud?

 

[RyanTheArchivist]

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Kunshan police partenered with Tencent in order to crack down a cheat enabler group, who are mostly dedicated to providing cheats in the game Valorant. It is the greatest anti-cheat operation ever, according to the Chinese Police. The operation reportedly earned as much as $10,000 daily, with calculations estimating that the total profits could be around $750 million dollars during the organization’s lifetime.

Among the assets seized, valued at 46 million dollars, were high end sports cars.

https://twitter.com/AntiCheatPD/status/1376079380565389315​

Source (Portuguese)

For once Tencent actually does some good.

 

[diggeloid]

Jailed for cheating in a video game? That's pretty weak, where's the death penalty?! Xi Jin pooh letting us gamers down.

 

[BigOnYa]

I wonder how much money was Really confiscated though? I'm sure China took a great deal of it first, before reporting the rest.

 

[Bladexdsl]

serves these fuckers right. cheating scum

 

[FAST6191]

How is that illegal? I mean I guess maybe they were committing tax fraud?

Real reason.
Because they threaten the money spinner of a friend of someone in power there (said person in power likely also having an interest), be it acting as competition for microtransactions or for the more nebulous "because nobody will want to play it any more".

What the underlying law they are trying this time I am not sure. Usually they try either a damage to a service, improper access to a service or contrive some flavour of fraud (be it access to the service, sale of non authentic goods or similar). I am sure if they can then some kind of failure to do proper tax return or our undercover asked and you did not deliver but took money will be thrown in too.

 

[ZeroT21]

LOL, nice justification, these so-called interventions only ever take place if there's money to be gained

 

[Xzi]

I thought cheating was essentially encouraged in Chinese culture? Like an, "ends justify the means" type philosophy.

 

[Gamemaster1379]

I thought cheating was essentially encouraged in Chinese culture? Like an, "ends justify the means" type philosophy.

Cheating without getting caught is encouraged to the ends justify the means philosophy as you say. But I think that also relates a lot towards progression of self/country.

Gaming is international (sometimes, when China isn't blocking it off), and a "recreational" activity, so doing so is effectively just low integrity (and not something a lot of cheaters elegantly hide -- e.g. aimbots, wallhacks, invulnerability), so it's "low integrity" and goes against social credit scores.