If you’re trying to construct a crew to cease individuals hacking your game, why not attain out to the people who find themselves making an attempt to hack your game? That’s an thought Riot Games had with Valorant and League Of Legends, hiding just a little recruitment message inside a part of their anti-cheat system. If you’re poking round of their gameguts, they is perhaps eager about your abilities.
It’s an thought a good few corporations have used earlier than in web sites, software program, and such: hiding messages prone to solely be seen by individuals with abilities or pursuits which may make them precious to you. As Motherboard report, the Packman software program Riot use in a number of games has been discovered to have just a little message:
“Protected by packman, a Riot Games product. Developed with <3 by the Anti-Cheat team. We’re always hiring talented individuals. If you’ve found this message, we implore you to take a look at our jobs page and see if anything catches your interest: https://www.riotgames.com/careers.”
And Motherboard confirmed the message even has some ASCII artwork for that hacker/code cracker/slacker aesthetic:
“The hope is that people who are doing it as a hobby or because they’re curious might want a chance to do it as a career,” a Riot worker covertly informed Motherboard. “And the people who are doing it to sell cheats for profit probably wouldn’t be interested.”
Riot have made a giant present of combating cheats in Valorant, with their their controversial anti-cheat ‘Vanguard’ hooking deep into your PC to police it. Despite this, improper’uns are managing to make wallhacks and aimbots for it. Cheat vs. anti-cheat is an limitless arms race (nonetheless being fought with lawsuits and software in far older games) however maybe some people is perhaps eager about going legit.
