A topic that comes up in every game and every era of MMOGs is the neverending supply of Hackers and their onslaught against the game(s) that we hold so dear to us. These are the people who seem to make our gaming experiences that much more problematic and difficult to endure. But how do they seperate the community even more so than ourselves? If the "legit" players of the community weren't problematic enough, what about those who exploit the system that runs and maintains our most cherished games? Our adversities are actually our fellow players, and the types that jump up in levels or kill us in two attacks at level 1 make things much more complicated than they should be. Jealousy runs through our veins because we see these people out level us in the most immoral kind of ways.

Common Memory Editor

These hackers end up using memory and/or packet editors to manipulate the client that we, the normal players, have been using for ages in ways that are completely illogical. Everything from gravity modifications to damage modifiers are found in the most under-played games on the Internet. Even when you least expect it, that silly little Flash-based game you play when you're bor

Throughout times, we've experienced the worse of the worse. As players, we've suffered from terrible incidents that resulted in us losing our characters, items, or even our account due to another player's desire to obtain what you have. Not only that, when was the last time you've gone into a Player Versus Player server or room without being called a 'noob' for the most unreasonable thing the person could come up with? It's come to my attention that gamers are no longer the 'passive' gamers they used to be; instead, they're trained and then normally stolen off of the person who worked so hard for it. This isn't always the case, but these times in MMO history are darker than any other. I've seen articles resembling "Was <year> the worse/best year for MMOGs?" popping up; and to my dismay, they don't seem to have any background information about how MMOs used to be.

The time before we all gave up hope..

Needless to say it wasn't always like this. There were times before all of the hype of being 'the best character' existed. Once upon a time, there were players who only wanted to enjoy the embrace of a good game with a bunch of like-minded players who enj