Does using a game wiki affect anti-cheat verification?
Hi friends, I have a website about casinos, wikis, and forum. Someone asked me if game wikis could be detected by anti-cheat software. I would like to know if you share or read game cheats/wikis for your game, do the anti-cheat software for your game catch any kind of false positives?
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Anti-Cheat will not detect your Wiki. They won’t detect any “cheating” because your Wiki is not a cheat tool. It is merely an information source that offers strategies and advice on how to play the game legally. Anti-Cheats aren’t concerned about information, they are concerned about memory hacks, scripts, and other programs that alter the game. A user reading a Wiki is no more guilty of cheating than they are when reading a book of strategies. As long as the cheats they are copying from are not within a program or a browser extension (like a bot) then they shouldn’t have issues. In general: Cheat website with text and image content? Good to go. App that autofills textfields or changes variables? Not good. So as long as your users don’t use a modified browser extension or download a modified version of the Wiki, they should never have a problem. Tell them to keep things clean.
A wiki shouldn't be detected by an anti-cheat program, unless the wiki has code or scripting and you use it to type cheat codes into a game. It’s not common, but it can happen. If your wiki doesn’t have anything illegal or exploitative, you’ll probably be fine. Just make sure you don’t do anything risky.