62% of European professional eSports players consider cheating to be inappropriate

12 Jan. (Portaltic/EP) –

62 percent of professional European eSports players consider the use of cheating inappropriate, even if they help their team win, and 78 percent acknowledge that they get very angry when other ‘gamers’ don’t play fairaccording to a recent survey conducted by Kaspersky.

In addition, ‘eSports’ professionals believe that the use of cheating and legal loopholes discredits the qualities and achievements of the game. Based on the data from this research, the majority (72 percent) of them believe that the use of cheats and loopholes proves that a player’s skills are not good enough to win on fair terms.

In this sense, the ‘gamers’ community believes that the industry must do more to prevent cheating, after a recent study commissioned by Omdia, under the title ‘Cheating, hacking, piracy and esports: critical steps needed to protect the industry’, revealed that 81 percent of respondents are “worried” about cheating or ‘hacking’ in ‘eSports’.

For this reason, almost all of the ‘eSports’ professionals (88 per cent) believe that game providers should do more to prevent gamers from using cheats. “The traps can adversely affect the performance of players’ computers or cause data and game asset leaks. These situations can occur because traps often contain malicious files and programs,” says Marina Titova, Vice President of Consumer Product Marketing at Kaspersky.

“In addition, cheating creates a trust problem between players, game providers and platforms. Gamers are not happy when someone has an illegal advantage over honest players and expect game manufacturers and platforms to create the right conditions for fair play.”

Thus, to maintain system security, Kaspersky recommends having a strong and reliable security solution, that does not slow down the computer while playing. In the same way, they urge buy the games only on the official sites and beware of phishing campaigns and unknown players. “It is a good option to double check the links to websites and the extension of a file that you are going to open,” they conclude.