I'm not aware of any game where you can buy literal cheat codes, though.
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Closest that comes to mind is Assassins Creed Odyssey with the XP booster.
For 1,000 Helix Credits ($9.99), you can purchase a permanent XP booster that gives you 50% extra experience points for the remainder of the campaign.
I wouldn't classify that as a cheat.
Exactly, there are far better descriptive names to call that. But none suitable for use in polite company.
I see that as a business opportunity.
Base game: 70€
Infinite ammo: 10€
All guns: 15€
Immortality: 20€
No clipping: 5€
I think you're going to end up with a time traveling assasine hunting you down one day.
My goal is to have something relevant written into laws and treaties. For example, if a gaming company pulls off a stunt like that, you’re legally permitted to throw a molotov cocktail through their window.
Most cheat codes got removed because game devs got better at separating debug tooling from game logic, but especially because publishers and console verification are very strict about what games are allowed to ship with. Shipping with debug tooling is one of the easiest ways to fail validation.
Publishers are always the biggest cunts in the entertainment industry. Personnel managers, record labels, game publishers, book publishers, movie distributors. Of course they'd do their best to remove fun from the entertainment.
Depends on the publisher, but unfortunately there's enough grubby publishers out there that the word is associated with bad execs. I automatically assume a publisher is unethical unless they prove otherwise. Even annapurna showed their true colours eventually.
That said, I have seen multiple instances of publishers actually saving games by stepping in and putting their own devs into the process. One example would be Valve, with left 4 dead.
Most cheat codes of the past were literally just shortcuts for QA and other testing. They don't need them now so they don't program them in. Though if it's on PC and has a command console, they do still have ways of using it to cheat. I do hate when an Unreal Engine game disables the console entirely, tho. I know it has one, and a lot of commands are the same across all games on it. I even found it interesting that the Oblivion Remaster uses Unreal's command console, but all the original GameBryo commands work. Even Ref and ItemIDs are identical.😃
The skins and p2w shit you get from micro transactions aren't a fraction as cool as DK mode in Goldeneye or BIGDADDY in AoE.
And they forced you to be always online for verification so modders couldn't do it for free.
What game are you playing that lets you buy cheats from their own store?
Did they? Do you have widespread examples, as I can't think of any? You must have loads.
There are so many free apps out there that will give you an endless list of cheats. There's even a free app that will let you hack the games yourself. I'm surprised you've not heard of any of these.
Good old cheat engine.
I thought about this the other day. We can only hope that genius people keep making ways to pirate games.
just stop buying that trash
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rent free
Didn't think you'd get torn apart on this one, did ya. I've found most games these days do MTX pretty fairly. Even f2p typically at worst will be xp bumps in leveling.