10 More GENIUS Ways Video Games Fought Cheaters

When developers can't stem the tide of cheating by themselves, leave it to dedicated players with seemingly endless time on their hands to get to work instead.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's cheating epidemic apparently became too much for YouTuber ScriptKid, who in 2020 gained a reputation for creating fake cheating software to entrap, embarrass, and ultimately disable cheaters.

In an impressively dedicated ruse, ScriptKid created some bogus software and paid out of his own pocket to advertise it on Google, ensuring that cheating players looking out for some new hacks would download it.

But ScriptKid's program would instead hijack the cheater's game and wreak havoc with a series of punishments.

These include forcing the player to throw a grenade or flashbang at their own feet, auto-shooting at teammates, firing at the ceiling, and so on.

Basically, the goal was clearly to ruin the cheater's experience and render them a laughing stock, or make them even enough of an annoyance that they get kicked by players actually wanting to play the game properly. Genius.