Why and How do People Cheat in Videogames ?

When we play a game , we have to stick to its rules. Once we are in the magic circle of a game , all the players sign invisible contract to obey the rules and play honestly.

When some of the player feel bored or less skilled than the others, they try to cheat in order to win. Hackers, aim bots or team killers - they all try to sabotage the game or win it.
Mostly, people cheat when they play action or adventure video games, where you have to kill the others and in the same time protect yourself from killing. There are certain tricks the player use.

• Aim-bots - Most often aimbots do everything that usually the player has to do on his own. The only thing one has to do is to move his character in order to see where the other players are. 
• Wall hacks - It enables the player to see through walls and objects, find the other players easily and kill them.
• Speed hacks - It makes the player faster than the others and gives him priority to the others.

• Cheat codes - They are hidden in the game and can be activated when the player press certain keyboard buttons. There are various codes one can write and make his character better than others, develop it.

There are people called hackers, who deliberately hack the system and disturb the game.
There are also team killers , who pretend to be part of a team and play for it, but actually play in order to make their team lose.
The glitch hunters try to make an error in the game, which usually happens within the system and it is a programme's error.

When people cheat in games, they lose the pleasure of the deserved win at the end. Some may feel empowered and superior to the other players but they show only lack of confidence in their own skills or unwillingness to stick to already settled rules.

Magic Circle

We call a magic circle the place where a game is being played. It is defined by the people or the players, the exact moment of time when we play the game and the rules a certain game has. We must have a look at each part of the Magic Circle separately.

• Time
  
   The Magic Circle is only valid during the period one a game is being played. During this time the players have to stick to certain rules or behave in a certain way depending on the game which may not be appropriate out of the magic circle.
  
  
  
  • Rules       
    Every game has its rules. When we play one game, we have to know what the rules are, what is permitted and what is not. Every magic circle has different rules because every game has its own rules. For example, if you play football, you are not allowed to touch the ball with your hands, whereas in a basketball game, the players have to use only their hands.
• Players
  
   
  Every player in the magic circle is a little part of it. Everyone has his function and plays a certain role. There is no scenario but the rules determine how the game would continue and would happen next. What is more, all the players share the same feeling of participation in something, the togetherness and the feeling of doing something we like with people who like it, too.
  
  
  When we start playing a game, we create a little world where we are actors and have to act for a particular period, in particular place and in a particular way no matter if it is a board game, a video game or a field game.We should enjoy our time spent with the other participants within the Magic Circle of the game and never forget it is just a game, when it is over, we can back to real live.