Software that enables users to cheat in popular multiplayer video games is now a business worth more than 2bil yuan in China, the world’s biggest gaming market, according toShenzhen-based Tencent, which runs the world’s largest video games business by revenue, presented that annual domestic market estimate for cheatware used in mobile and personal computer games at an online lecture series called “Guardian Program Salon” held on Sept 1, according to Chinese media reports.
Auto-aiming script, for example, can help a player see through covers and automatically lock onto enemies in a shooting game. A so-called traversal tool can help a gamer “fly” or walk through walls. The size of China’s cheatware market is a testament to increased demand, despite the Internet industry’s efforts to eliminate commercial access to this software and police action against local vendors.cracked down on domestic sales of cheatware
over the years. Their Sword Net 2020 campaign, launched in June, has online cheatware vendors among its targets. In the same month, police raided a cheatware operation in Taizhou, a city in central Jiangsu province, which generated 20mil yuan in revenue after over nearly two years in business. Still, China’s black market for video game cheats and hacks has continued to thrive. Popular titles that cheatware vendors have exploited to attract a large number of players include
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