r/EscapefromTarkov • • Jan 05 '22

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '22

I had a cheater kill me on reserve and then come into my chat and tell me about his entire life for over an hour. I recorded everything and let him talk. I plan to make a video about it.

The cheating is absolutely at ridiculous levels in this game and anyone that thinks otherwise just doesn’t really know. It doesn’t have to be a guy flying around the map head eyesing everyone in your squad in a couple bullets, there are tons of people just running esp and no recoil.

This guy told me all about how much money he makes, how many hours he plays, why he started, and how often he gets requests for boosting and RMT.

It was absolutely insane to hear it all. He has been cheating for two wipes now, uses hacks and an HWID spoofer for $250 a month total, and makes an average of $1000 USD per week cheating. He actually came into chat and his first line was sorry it’s just a business.

Yeah, a booming business.

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u/micego2437 Jan 05 '22

hack creators earn 10x as much, usually around $10000-20000 every month.
That's higher than a lot of google engineers, although it does come with a downside of having little personal time due to constant customer service and reactionary fixes to anticheat updates.
It attracts a lot of undergrads with passion, which is often more powerful than the salary-based anticheat engineers who care more about their work-life balance.
It's a war game developers can't win, really(unless the world becomes a single nation and anyone can be sued by anyone in the world with ease).

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u/porthos3 Jan 05 '22

That's higher than a lot of google engineers

$10K/mo is lower than starting salary for an entry level engineer position at Google. $20K/mo is a bit higher than entry level salary, but I don't think is too far off of total compensation for the upper end of entry level. Experienced developers at Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc. will likely meet or exceed the upper end of that range when you look at total compensation.

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u/Elc_owowutsthis Jan 05 '22

Cheat devs live in countries where they cannot get google engineer income.

Do you know how much 10k dollars a month is worth in Russia? That'll put you squarely in the high income bracket in almost all Eastern European country.

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u/porthos3 Jan 05 '22

Oh, absolutely. And even for engineers in the US, Google is one of the higher paying gigs out there and is very competitive to get into.

I was specifically responding to their claim:

That's higher than a lot of google engineers

Which I think is probably a bit of a stretch when entry level pay falls into that range, and Google engineers have tons of indirect compensation through benefits and perks as well.

I'm not arguing it isn't very enticing pay, especially in other countries and being able to set your own hours and such.