Yoshi's post about client server and cheating

[Alhanelem]

There is lots of hackers in and hacks for this game. Their precautions failed, their client fails, their netcode fails. Ruining the gameplay in order to prevent cheating is just ultra sad and a really really bad decision. It's what got them the bad press after all. Imo they should stop that. They clearly don't know how to make a cheat-proof system so they might as well concentrate on making the game fun.

I haven't seen any hackers. If you want to talk about botting, that's not the same thing as hacking. Anybody can download AutoHotKey and automate key-pressing for any program in existence. There's really nothing you can do about that short of using an invasive detection system.

Is that 0.3 seconds the number they're getting from a player in Japan? Then the data transfer is too large between client and server.

It's just an approximate number, not directly based off anything. And it wouldn't be unreasonable to expect a ~300 ping (.3 seconds) to servers in Japan

They clearly don't know how to make a cheat-proof system so they might as well concentrate on making the game fun.

The people who work on protecting the game against cheaters are not hte same people who make the game fun. Thus, they can achieve both objectives. That being said, you can not 100% prevent all cheating. That doesn't mean they shouldn't do what they can to minimize it. Also, opening the door to cheaters will potentially make your game less fun.

If they trusted the client with all information, it would force them to use an invasive hacking-prevetion software like GameGuard to prevent cheating. These programs do not work very well and are also basically rootkits on your system that are almost impossible to fully remove if you uninstall the game that is using it. In short, not something you want to have on your computer.