Cheating has been, and always will be, an intrinsic part of video games.

Cheating in video games involves a video game player using various methods to create an advantage beyond normal gameplay, in order to make the game easier.

Cheating is when a person misleads, deceives, or acts dishonestly on purpose. For kids, cheating may happen at school, at home, or while playing a sport. If a baseball team is for kids who are 8 or younger, it's cheating for a 9-year-old to play on the team and hit home run after home run. 77 synonyms of cheating from the Merriam-Webster Thesaurus, plus 137 related words, definitions, and antonyms. Find another word for cheating. Cheating: the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery. Cheat definition, to defraud; swindle: He cheated her out of her inheritance.

(December 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) In video games, an exploit is the use of a bug or glitches, game system, rates, hit boxes, speed or level design etc. By a player to their advantage in a manner not intended by the game's designers. Cheating in games is a contentious topic for whatever reason. Another word for cheating. Find more ways to say cheating, along with related words, antonyms and example phrases at Thesaurus.com, the world's most trusted free thesaurus.

Since the dawn of competitive gaming, there have always been players who will do anything to crush the competition. Whether it’s wallhacking in Call of Duty: Warzone or using a bot to farm gold in World of Warcraft, crooked gamers will use any tool or exploit to gain an advantage over their opponents.

But online cheaters didn’t come up with these tricks on their own. Believe it or not, game developers are responsible for making the most famous cheats in gaming history.

God Mode is a classic cheat that gives players who use it with the gift of invincibility. It’s like finding the Super Star in any of the Super Mario games. It grants invulnerability to any enemy attacks and usually makes you unstoppably powerful.

The widespread popularity of video games thanks to Twitch and YouTube has led to the adoption of “God Mode” outside of gaming communities. Sports fans use the phrase to describe unbelievable plays by athletes, but you can use anytime someone effortlessly conquers a challenge as if they’d suddenly obtained god-like powers.

Fiction writers and fans also refer to characters that are omnipotent as “God-Mode Sue.” This includes supreme beings like Dr. Manhattan in DC Comics’ Watchmen who reveal how weak everyone else is by comparison.

God Mode has taken on a life of its own outside of the gaming sphere, and it’s all thanks to a group of developers in the 1990s.

The Origins of God Mode

The birth of God Mode is linked to the creation of DOOM in 1993 by Id Software. The seminal first-person shooter inspired future titles like System Shock and Half-Life. It was also where the concept of a God Mode cheat was first conceived.

DOOM included a handful of secret cheat codes that developers could use to test out the game without actually playing it. However, anyone could take advantage of these cheats if they new the secret code. One of them was known as “IDDQD,” and by typing those five letters in the middle of a DOOM session, your health would be set to 100 percent and you’d become immune to all damage. “God Mode” was born.

Unconfirmed rumors claim that IDDQD was an abbreviation for the fictional fraternity “Delta Quit Delta,” an inside joke among id Software developers. A 2004 post on the RPG gaming forum claimed employees would joke that the fake fraternity only accepted college students who dropped out. (One of id’s most well known developers, John Carmack, dropped out of the University of Missouri, which could be where the joke got started.)

While players would type in IDDQD into DOOM, they’d refer to the cheat as “God Mode,” and id also adopted that naming convention. When the developer released Quake in 1996, it also included a God Mode cheat, but this time players simply had to type “god” instead of “IDDQD”. From here onward the cheat took on a life of its own.

God Mode Beyond id Software

Other developers gave gamers access to a similar hidden cheat. Duke Nukem 3D (1996), Unreal Tournament (1999), and Deus Ex (2000) all have their own God Mode cheats. In the early days of the internet, the easiest way to learn about these cheat codes was from physical video game magazines. The culture of sharing tips and tricks that sprung up around these games and magazines seamlessly transitioned into online forums.

In the early-to-mid 2000s, God Mode cheats in many games were common knowledge to veteran gamers. The first Urban Dictionary definition for “godmode” arrived in 2003, and a separate entry for IDDQD appeared about a year later.

Some modern games, like the Grand Theft Auto series, still include god mode cheats, but many consider the concept to be a relic. In 2009, the web comic series BrainStuck published an early God Mode meme of a father telling his son about the legacy of IDDQD in DOOM, which inspired countlessothermemes and helped the term reach a mainstream audience.

Later that year, Microsoft released Windows 7 with a hidden feature called “GodMode.” The function created a folder with a master list of customization settings, giving people total command of their computer from one place. Internet searches for “god mode” spiked in late 2009 and early 2010 as new Windows 7 users researched how to activate this feature.

Between 2011 and 2012, 'god mode' began appearing in sportsblogs as a way to describe the super-human-like feats of athletes in the NBA, MLB, NFL, and other professional sports leagues. It was around this time that the phrase became a go-to way for writers, commenters, or anyone else online to illustrate an unbelievable achievement of wits, athleticism, or finesse.

A decade later, the once niche command for a vintage video game has become a way to describe harnessing any kind of power and using it to do something incredible. So the next time someone accuses you of cheating in Overwatch after you headshot them for the third time in a row, tell them that they’re right. You typed IDDQD before the match started.

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Cheating generally describes various actions designed to subvert rules in order to obtain unfair advantages. This includes acts of bribery, cronyism and nepotism in any situation where individuals are given preference using inappropriate criteria.^[1] The rules infringed may be explicit, or they may be from an unwritten code of conduct based on morality, ethics or custom, making the identification of cheating conduct a potentially subjective process. Cheating can refer specifically to infidelity. Someone who is known for cheating is referred to as a cheat in British English, and a cheater in American English. A person described as a 'cheat' doesn't necessarily cheat all the time, but rather, relies on deceitful tactics to the point of acquiring a reputation for it.

Academic

Academic cheating is a significantly common occurrence in high schools and colleges in the United States. Statistically, 64% of public high school students admit to serious test cheating. 58% say they have plagiarized. 95% of students admit to some form of cheating. This includes tests, copying homework, and papers. Only 50% of private school students, however, admit to this. The report was made in June 2005 by Rutgers University professor Donald McCabe for The Center for Academic Integrity. The findings were corroborated in part by a Gallup survey.^[2] In McCabe's 2001 of 4500 high school students, '74% said they cheated on a test, 72% cheated on a written work, and 97% reported to at least had copied someone's homework or peeked at someone's test. 1/3 reported to have repeatedly cheated.'^[3] The new revolution in high-tech digital info contributes enormously to the new wave in cheating: online term-paper mills sell formatted reports on practically any topic; services exist to prepare any kind of homework or take online tests for students, despite the fact that this phenomenon, and these websites, are well known to educators;^[4]MP3 players can hold digitalized notes; graphing calculators store formulas to solve math problems.^[5]

The Chinese civil service examinations, the main route to career success for literate men in imperial China, was bedeviled for centuries by rampant cheating and examiner-bribery, as detailed in books like the Ming-dynasty Book of Swindles.^[6]

Sport, games and gambling

Sports

Cheating in sports is the intentional breaking of rules in order to obtain an advantage over the other teams or players. Sports are governed by both customs and explicit rules regarding acts which are permitted and forbidden at the event and away from it. Forbidden acts frequently include performance-enhancing drug taking (known as 'doping'), using equipment that does not conform to the rules or altering the condition of equipment during play, and deliberate harassment or injury to competitors.

High-profile examples of alleged doping cheating include Lance Armstrong's use of steroids in professional cycling - particularly controversial as it is widely suspected that a high percentage of professional cyclists are using prohibited substances - Ben Johnson's disqualification following the 100 metres final at the 1988 Summer Olympics, and admissions of steroid use by former professional baseball players after they have retired, such as José Canseco^[7] and Ken Caminiti.^[8] A famous sporting scandal involving cheating via harassment and injury occurred in 1994 in figure skating when Tonya Harding's ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, and her bodyguard Shawn Eckhardt, hired Shane Stant to break Nancy Kerrigan's leg to remove her from the year's competitions and prevent her from competing with Harding. One of the most famous instances of cheating involving a prohibited player action occurred during the 1986 FIFA World Cup quarter-final, when Diego Maradonaused his hand to punch the ball into the goal of EnglandgoalkeeperPeter Shilton.^[9] Using the hand or arm by anyone other than a goalkeeper is illegal according to the rules of association football.

Illegally altering the condition of playing equipment is frequently seen in bat sports such as baseball and cricket, which are heavily dependent on equipment condition. For example, in baseball, a pitcher using a doctored baseball (e.g. putting graphite or Vaseline on the baseball), or a batter using a corked bat are some examples of this. Tennis and golf are also no strangers to equipment cheating, with players being accused of using rackets of illegal string tension, or golf clubs of illegal weight, size, or make. Equipment cheating can also occur via the use of external aids in situations where equipment is prohibited - such as in American football via the use of stickum on the hands of receivers, making the ball easier to catch. An example of this is Hall of Famer Jerry Rice, who admitted to regularly & illegally using 'stickum' throughout his career, calling into question the integrity of his receiving records.^[10][11][12]

Athletic cheating is a widespread problem. For example, in professional bodybuilding, cheating is now estimated to be so universal that it is now considered impossible to engage in professional competition without cheating and the use of supposedly banned substances; bodybuilders who refuse to take banned substances now compete in natural bodybuilding leagues.^{[citation needed]}

Cheating may also be seen in coaching. One of the most common forms of this is the use of bribery and kickbacks in the player recruitment process.^{[citation needed]}Such practices are widespread all across athletics, and are particularly visible in college sports recruitment. Another common form of cheating in coaching is profiteering in association with gamblers and match fixing (see also the section below on cheating in the gambling industry). The most famous coach of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Runnin' Rebels basketball team, Jerry Tarkanian, was accused of both recruitment fraud and gambling fraud over the course of his career and was the subject of intense NCAA scrutiny. Another form of this involves a team coach or other manager undertaking corporate espionage or another form of prohibited spying in order to obtain details about other teams' strategies and tactics. The 2007 New England Patriots videotaping controversy, in which the New England Patriots were found to have videotaped an opposing team from an unapproved location while trying to obtain defensive signals. As was the Pittsburgh Steelers use of, at the time legal, performance enhancers. However, there was cheating proven by the Denver Broncos during their back to back titles in the late 1990s to circumvent the league's salary cap and obtain and retain players that they would otherwise not have been able to. Circumvention of rules governing conduct and procedures of a sport can also be considered cheating. a form of collusion.

An example of cheating via judging collusion occurred in the 2002 Winter Olympics figure skating scandal when the Russian team was awarded a gold medal over the Canadian team in an alleged vote-swapping judging deal; the Canadian team's silver medals were eventually upgraded to gold at a second awards ceremony and the French judge was suspended for misconduct. The head of the French skating federation was later also suspended, and both were banned from the 2006 Olympic Games.^[13] The International Skating Union modified its judging system as a result of this case.

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Cheating is also used to refer to movements in strength training that transfer weight from an isolated or fatigued muscle group to a different or fresh muscle group. This allows the cheater to move an initial greater weight (if the cheating continues through an entire training set) or to continue exercising past the point of muscular exhaustion (if the cheating begins part way through the set). As strength training is not a sport, cheating has no rule-based consequences, but can result in injury or a failure to meet training goals. This is because each exercise is designed to target specific muscle groups and if the proper form is not used the weight can be transferred away from the targeted group.^{[citation needed]}

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Video games

In video games, cheating can take the form of secret access codes in single-player games (such as the Konami code^[14]) which unlock a bonus for the player when entered, hacks and exploits which give players an unfair advantage in online multiplayer games and single-player modes, or unfair collusion between players in online games (such as a player who spectates a match, removing limitations such as 'fog of war', and reports on enemy positions to game partners).

Attitudes towards cheating vary. Using exploits in single-player modes is usually considered to be simply another form of exploring the game's content unless the player's accomplishments are to be submitted competitively, and is common in single-player games with a high difficulty level; however, cheating in multiplayer modes is considered immoral and harshly condemned by fair players and developers alike. On one hand, cheating allows casual players to complete games at much-accelerated speed, which can be helpful in some cinematic or one-player games, which can take a subjectively long time to finish, as is typical of the Role-Playing Game (RPG) genre. While this may be seen as a hasty advantage causing no damage to anyone, in a multi-player game such as MMORPGs the repercussions of cheating are much more damaging, breaking the risk/reward curve of the game and causing fair players to lose online matches and/or character development. Cheating in those types of games is generally prohibited - though often widespread anyway. In many circles, the purchasing of items or currency from sources outside the game is also considered to be cheating. The Terms of Service from many games where this is possible, directly prohibits this activity.^{[citation needed]} One area where there is little consensus involves modern Free-to-play business models which support and are supported by the exchange of real-world money for in-game services, items, and advantages. Games that grant excessive advantages only available to paying customers may be criticized as being 'Pay to win'^[15] - sometimes considered a form of 'cheating' that is actually legitimatized by the system - whilst games that limit real-money purchases to cosmetic changes are generally accepted as fair.

Another form of video game cheating is when a player does things to interact with game objects that are unforeseen by the programmers and break the intended function or reward system of the object. This can involve the way enemies are encountered, objectives met, items used, or any other game object that contains a software bug. One common example is the exploitation of errors in an enemy's pathfinding; if a player can cause an enemy to become 'stuck' in a given terrain feature, that player can then usually dispatch the enemy from a distance without risk, even if much stronger, and achieve greater rewards than the player is intended to be able to at that level of progression. Another example was common in early first-person shooter games and involved skipping a weapon's reload timer by quickly switching weapons back and forth without actually reloading the weapons; resulting in what was effectively instant reloading. It also can be accomplished through means of altered game files are substituted for the normal files, or image graphics changed to permit greater visibility of the targets, etc. - for example, replacing the colors on a dark-colored enemy intended to blend in with the background with a bright color permitting instant visibility and targeting. Generally speaking, there is often some concern that this is not truly cheating, as it is the fault of the programmers that such an exploit exists in the first place. However, technically, as with live sports, it is cheating if the player is not playing the game in a formally approved manner, breaking unwritten rules. In some cases, this behavior is directly prohibited by the Terms of Service of the game.^[16]

Gambling

The wagering of money on an event extends the motivation for cheating beyond directly participating competitors. As in sport and games, cheating in gambling is generally related to directly breaking rules or laws, or misrepresenting the event being wagered on, or interfering in the outcome.A boxer who takes a dive, a casino which plays with secretly loaded dice, a rigged roulette wheel or slot machine, or a doctored deck of cards, are generally regarded as cheating, because it has misrepresented the likelihood of the game's outcomes beyond what is reasonable to expect a bettor to protect himself against. However, for a bookmaker to flatter a horse in order to sell bets on it at shorter odds may be regarded as salesmanship rather than cheating, since bettors can counter this by informing themselves and by exercising skepticism.Doping a horse is a clear example of cheating by interfering with the instruments of the event under wager. Again, not all interference is cheating; spending money to support the health and well-being of a horse one has wagered on is not in itself generally regarded as cheating, nor is improving the morale of a sportsman one has backed by cheering for them. Generally, interference is more likely to be regarded as cheating if it diminishes the standard of a sporting competition, damages a participant, or modifies the apparatus of the event or game.^[17]

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In the world of gambling, knowing a secret which is not priced into the odds gives a significant advantage, which may give rise to a perception of cheating. However, legal systems do not regard secretly making use of knowledge in this way as criminal deception in itself. This is in contrast to the financial world, where people with certain categories of relationship to a company are restricted from transacting, which would constitute the crime of insider trading. This may be because of a stronger presumption of equality between investors, or it may be because a company employee who also trades in the company's stock has a conflict of interest, and has thus misrepresented himself the company.An advantage player typically uses mental, observational or technical skills to choose when and how much to bet, and neither interferes with the instruments of the game nor breaks any of its rules. Representatives of the casino industry have claimed that all advantage play is cheating, but this point of view is reflected neither among societies in general nor in legislation. As of 2010, the only example anywhere of a type of advantage play being unlawful is for an advantage player to use an auxiliary device in the U.S. State of Nevada, whose legislation is uniquely influenced by large casino corporations. Nonetheless it remains a widely held principle that the law should not impose any restraint over the method by which a player arrives at a playing or betting decision from information held by him lawfully and which he is not debarred from under the rules of the game. In 'hole carding', a casino player tries to catch sight of the front of cards which are dealt face-down according to the rules.One way of cheating and profiting through gambling is to bet against yourself and then intentionally lose. This is known as throwing a game or taking a dive. Illegal gamblers will at times pay sports players to lose so that they may profit from the otherwise unexpected loss. An especially notorious case is the Black Sox Scandal, when eight players of the 1919 Chicago White Sox took payment from gamblers and intentionally played poorly. Another happened in boxing when Jake LaMotta famously took a dive against Billy Fox in order to obtain his entry to a championship match against Marcel Cerdan, a deal offered by the mobsters who controlled professional boxing.

Business

Various regulations exist to prevent unfair competitive advantages in business and finance,^[18] for example competition law, or the prohibition of insider trading.

The most extreme forms of cheating (e.g. attempting to gain money through outright deceit rather than providing a service) are referred to as fraud.

See also

• Unfair competition, in business

References

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External links and further reading

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• Callahan, David (2004). The Cheating Culture. Harvest Books.
• 'Cheating in Contracts - A $30 Million Case of Corruption'. FBI News. Archived from the original on 2016-03-06.
• Green, Stuart P. (2006). Lying, Cheating, and Stealing: A Moral Theory of White Collar Crime. Oxford University Press.
• Levitt, Steven & Dubner, Stephen J. (2005). Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. William Morrow/HarperCollins. ISBN0-06-073132-X.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)

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