DayZ associate producer Eugen Harton spoke to a GDC Europe crowd earlier today about how Bohemia Interactive handles cheaters in its open-world zombiepocalypse survival title. Harton said that Bohemia has built a library of roughly 400 cheats to date, and he notes that over 76 percent of DayZ players who are banned for cheating come back and get caught cheating again.
In terms of practical anti-cheat measures, Harton says that disabling Windows’ test mode worked well for DayZ’s developers, and he also advocates for community managers infiltrating cheat websites and using on-the-level players as snitches.
Ultimately, though, cheating is big business and is here to stay regardless of developer initiatives. “It’s amazing how much money you can make selling cheats,” he explains. “Many cheat-sellers in Russia and other regions make their living selling game exploits.”
