Dell is promoting its laptops in China by saying they can run more PUBG cheats
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https://www.pcpowerplay.com.au/news/how-normal-is-cheating-at-pubg-in-china-very,488581
My colleague Ben Mansill was in Beijing last week for Intel's big reveal of its new 8th gen processors, and alongside the chip release, a lot of laptop and PC makers were also on hand to spruik their goods. Dell was a big part of the dog and pony show, and a big part of the company's spiel was how many more 'plug-ins' you could run.
Plug-ins. Also known as cheats.
Here's a bit more of what Dell spokeperson Sally Zhang had to say about how to win more chicken dinners:
She spoke of how Chinese gamers are the most innovative and dominant in the world by using "plugins" to, for example, run faster than other players, or blow up ten cars at a time, and that these top gamers can really use 8th-Gen power to "run more plugins to win more at Chicken Dinner", and that the top players run the most 'plugins' so that's where 8th-gen Dell power gives them the gamer's edge. Behind her a video proudly shows various cheats in PUBG in action (they really like the one with the massively oversized gun and show that a lot), with the new Dell gaming laptops shown every few seconds while Sally told us that gamers should buy a Dell because they're better at running many plugins. Wow.
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Power to the playerscheaters
To think I still know people who actively deny PUBG benefits from and encourages a cheater's economy.
Targeted advertising right here.
This is fucking hilarious
Chinese priorities always feel a little... askew from our own, don't they?
Isn't selling/using game cheats illegal in China or something?
Well, according to what I've read on that, they keep using words like "plug-ins", and more-so just alluding to cheating.
Even then, I don't think they really care.
i wonder if chinese gamers see shit like this and cringe
"Lemme just drop a few grand on a new laptop with the sole purpose to not play the game and w+m1 aimbot"
This is legit sad. I've personally seen few if none legit internet traffic from china. Every IP that has been trying to scrape for admin panels on my domains all come from chinese IPs and the occasional brazil one. Not to say all chinese are like this but it's a massive problem there.
I'm pretty sure you're thinking of South Korea.
I'm still picturing warehouses full of people aimbotting on PUBG servers for low pay on high end equipment.
Consider that the proverbial arms-race of hardware upgrades and these so-called "plug-ins" for popular online games may have become a game in and of itself for them. Truly, the most meta of metagames.
I know PUBG doesn't have dedicated servers, but if it did and I was hosting one, I would just block all IPs from China after seeing this tbqh
How do they benefit from a cheater's economy? I know they have an official VPN but there aren't any endorsed cheats?
It's a big problem, I actually block all traffic from China, Russia, and a few other problem countries to most of my servers, since it prevents a ton of needless access log entries. Also because all of what I host has no use in either countries, so it's not a loss.
I wonder if there is ever a time where one whole server is hackers? Like what happens then, do they play reallife Battle royal?
I find it really weird how China has this culture of playing by their own rules, it's like the whole country is from that parallel universe from Star Trek, where everyone is an asshole. Being a cheater makes you a piece of shit anywhere else in the world but in China you're "one of the most innovative and dominant" gamers for not playing the game as it was meant to be played. Granted, that's just marketing talk to gank people into buying Dell laptops.
Someone who is more versed with the socio-economic implications please chime in here, but I think for reasons, certain asshole-ish things are regarded as a high cultural status there, and if I had to guess it comes from the extreme poverty culture.
Things like very intentionally grabbing more food than you'll eat at a buffet, just to throw it out is seen as a: "Woah. THAT guy has so much wealth, they can *waste* food?"
Shark fin soup: It's economy exist only there, and highly regarded chefs from all over the world pretty much agree that there is nothing of culinary value from shark fins on a taste perspective. It is simply a manufactured status symbol. "I am so not poor, that I can eat this illegal product, and I don't even care that it doesn't add to the soup's flavor at all."
Glad Dell knows their target audience.
It's got nothing to do with winning games, it has everything to do with getting as much points for crates as possible.
They get steam wallet money from selling the items and then they go on to sell steam gifts for cash. It's a business.
The world needs a great firewall of China except to contain Chinese players instead :v
It's a cycle which Tencent and the PUBG Corp benefit from at every step.
The hacker buys a copy of the game, giving money to Tencent and PUBG Corp. Optionally they may use the official VPN thus giving Tencent extra money. Then they sell all the stuff they got from lootcrates, or the lootcrates themselves, on the steam marketplace, at which point Tencent and PUBG Corp get another cut from the profits. When the hacker gets inevitably detected by the anticheat system, they buy another copy, completing the cycle and continuously feeding both companies.
PUBG has no financial interest in killing off its Chinese cheat economy.
It must suck dick to be Chinese and want to play games legitimately. You either play with cheaters, or you play with a 250+ ping
I remember there was a game a few years back that made headlines because of its system of "we won't ban you from the game for using cheats, we'll just matchmake you solely with other hackers". It was actually considered an inventive solution and a few people (myself included) were actually looking forward to watching some hacker-only matches for the potential insanity that could arise.
Titanfall and GTAV did that
Are most Chinese cheats aimbots? For PUBG?
It was great in GTA V until the hackers could 'unban' themselves from it and put you in it with the only way out being through hacking yourself out or submitting a ticket.
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