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by pfisch 1975 days ago
It really depends on the game and to what degree it is secured.

In a lot of games adding additional server side security checks means slowing the game down and making it a worse experience for the real users.(As in having to put up loading spinners while we spend time validating things on the server for no real reason except because of people trying to ruin the game.) That is a bummer, and when products come out that make it easier for people to make cheats it results in a proliferation of people releasing hacks.

It also takes money and time away from development and towards this kind of nonsense, which also hurts the users in the end.