What happened to cheat devices like GameShark, Action Replay,

>>381256887
companies figured out they could sell you cheats.

the masses decided they were fine with paying for such services.

corporate greed found another way to milk you.

>>381257042
Are you talking about DLC and pre-order 'bonuses' that boost stats or something? Hell, I used Codebreaker on PS2 because I couldn't get online with Monster Hunter for some of the gear.

>>381257316
yeah, little things like that chipped away at the cheats market etc.

That and I guess given the massive online nature of things now, and everything needing to be an esport - devs care more about balance than fun.

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Editing running memory is a security fault. Now that consoles are so obsessed with piracy and exclusives they did their best to lock down their machines to prevent them from being used like machines; only as media consumption devices used in the way they decide.

>>381257660
That's pretty shit. At least cheat engine still works when I want to dick around on the computer. Sucks that the main forum that housed all the codes ended up getting taken down by some attack. A lot of those cheats back in the day were not just a
Inf. Ammo/health, but they were fun things like moon gravity and super speed.

>>381258075
Really? I did not know that. That's pretty shitty honestly.

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>>381257042
>companies figured out they could sell you cheats.
it's has more to do with how developing cheats is now seen as wasting resources that could be spent towards on-disc DLC or cosmetic shops. why bother? cheats are a single player game thing anyway and nobody plays those anymore with few exceptions.

>>381258440
no, developing cheats takes literally minutes, at a technical level it is simply writing a command and another command to call upon that command, devs making the game will know their work so well it takes literally minutes to mock one up.

I do agree that the focus is monetisation though, but not time required.

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>>381258440
>and nobody plays those anymore with few exceptions

Total War (no one fucking plays the MP)
Witchman
Bamham
Assassin's Creed (no one fucking plays the MP)
Skyblimp

>>381258440
>nobody plays those anymore
Almost half of the games at e3 this year were single player.

>>381258440
>cheats are a single player game thing anyway and nobody plays those anymore with few exceptions.

one of the stupidest things i've read today.