I can somewhat understand it being applied to multiplayer game because cheating in them does directly affect either other players (like cheating in PvP and beating other players with exclusive advantage) or the game itself (Acquiring resources of any kind in a faster/more efficient way which affects the game's economy and other players).
Single player games shouldn't matter. It's isolated experience and the only negatively person who is affected is the person themselves.
I say shouldn't because that's how it worked in the old days. Problem is cheating in single player games directly affect games as service model.
Example being RE4 Remake. Using trainers/save editors to give yourself a huge amount of peseta isn't really a problem in a single player game because it's a single player game. You cheat yourself out of challenge and stimulation but otherwise no harm no faul. Except for Capcom who chooses to sell certain items via console store like Exclusive Tickets which do the same for the mark up price. The cheats are now affecting company's bottom line.
It should be possible to punish people who are cheating in a multiplayer game. Even beyond easily evadible bans but multi-year imprisonment or legal punishments for editing single-player games is a net negative in society
That's psychopathic
Mixed bag really.
I can somewhat understand it being applied to multiplayer game because cheating in them does directly affect either other players (like cheating in PvP and beating other players with exclusive advantage) or the game itself (Acquiring resources of any kind in a faster/more efficient way which affects the game's economy and other players).
Single player games shouldn't matter. It's isolated experience and the only negatively person who is affected is the person themselves.
I say shouldn't because that's how it worked in the old days. Problem is cheating in single player games directly affect games as service model.
Example being RE4 Remake. Using trainers/save editors to give yourself a huge amount of peseta isn't really a problem in a single player game because it's a single player game. You cheat yourself out of challenge and stimulation but otherwise no harm no faul. Except for Capcom who chooses to sell certain items via console store like Exclusive Tickets which do the same for the mark up price. The cheats are now affecting company's bottom line.
It should be possible to punish people who are cheating in a multiplayer game. Even beyond easily evadible bans but multi-year imprisonment or legal punishments for editing single-player games is a net negative in society