Gaining significant competitive advantage through in-game purchases or monetized advantages.
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Gaining significant competitive advantage through in-game purchases or monetized advantages.
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Gaining significant competitive advantage through in-game purchases or monetized advantages.
Peer-reviewed and academic literature connected to this cheat, with DOI or URL references attached where available.
Guo Freeman et al.
Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6 CHI PLAY Article 247 (October 2022)
Target: Pay-to-win mechanics, functional in-game purchases creating unfair advantages
Aim: Freeman, G., Wu, K., Nower, N., & Wohn, D. Y. (2022). Pay to win or pay to cheat: How players of competitive online games perceive fairness of in-game purchases. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact., 6, CHI PLAY, Article 247.
Recommendation: (Freeman et al., 2022)
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Named incidents, documented examples, or sanctions associated with this cheat category.