Is there a stop to Internet Backgammon cheaters?

Anonymous
2010-04-09T18:01:10+00:00

So I have enjoyed playing Backgammon in the past, but nowadays is just IMPOSSIBLE.  I am sure many others have noticed this.  There are players out there that can control the dice at least for them, and some can even move more chips than the allowed by standard rules.

For example, not 10 minutes ago, I rolled 6 and 5, then the guy doubled me on his first roll, and got double three, then I rolled and I got 4 and 1, then he rolled and got 3 and 1, then I rolled and got 3 and 2, then he rolled and got double 5 eating my lonely chip in position 1 and covering position 3 from position 8.  Do you call that a lucky roll?  I call that an engineered roll, if you know Backgammon.

Yesterday, a guy moved 6 chips using a double 5.  That same guy rolled 4 consecutive pairs.

Yesterday, I had 5 out of 6 positions occupied in my side and I ate one of the other player's chips.  I did this repeatedly.  The guy just lost 1 roll out of 4 chips I ate.  He also had 5 of 6 positions occupied.  He ate a chip of mine twice.  I had to roll some 10 times before I could get out each time.

If you know Backgammon, you know this is NOT right.  Losers out there have found a way to cheat, and that ruins the fun for us, the ones with a brain.

Microsoft, please put an end to this.  Your Windows license is expensive, and I paid for it, and I expect to be able to enjoy all the features in the OS, and that includes the included Internet gaming.  Roll a patch that can end this blatant cheating!

MCP

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Anonymous
2010-04-10T13:55:17+00:00

Hi,

If you have any feedback’s, then I would suggest you to post here:

https://connect.microsoft.com/?wa=wsignin1.0

 Please respond back with the status of the issue and let us know if you have any issues.

 Azam – Microsoft

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-02-16T09:09:33+00:00

    I'm sorry but I can't actually play backgammon. However, I understand the technical side of your point.

    How can Microsoft stop software 'bruteforcing' into the software and changing the code without turning the game into a virtual antivirus with the next update? The game would have to be programmed to 'remove' the cheat software, and this wouldn't please many users.

    Apart from programming a new version of Windows to reject cheat software in an attempted install, I can't see many options.

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-02-16T08:58:47+00:00

    Jetpackboy said

    "Listen, guys.

    Instead of making (frankly, pointless) posts complaining to Microsoft, please accept the     following (no offence meant).

    The cheaters use software to 'hack' into the game. I've witnessed it before on other online    games. The software edits variables, settings, code etc., and done. The game is in their f amour.

    Microsoft can't literally stop it THAT easily. "

    Thank you for your frank and honest reply. At least there is now an admission that people are able to dice cheat, which a lot of people already knew or strongly suspected.

    I am very incredulous that Microsoft can't stop the cheating that easily. The stall cheat which seems to have been around for a decade would seem very easy to fix. However, I have an open mind but it would take hard, frank and honest details to convince me.

    For example a detailed discussion about the vulnerabilities that allow both stall and dice cheating are mandatory to back up your claim. This discussion doesn't have to be a treatise on a how to cheat, only what makes it possible. Once the facts are known readers can decide how easily Microsoft could fix the problem.

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-02-12T03:40:13+00:00

    YOU Flagoff - are full of the used grass that falls out of a bovine exhaust port. Anyone who plays the MS Backgammon at length, knows the game is rife with cheats and glitches. e.g. The real game does not allow 6 moves - regardless of doubles. And for the 36:1 odds perfect roll to happen at the precise moment needed - with the regularity it does, moves those odds WAY out of the probability of chance. You're so smug about referring to the "those with a brain", it's apparent you are the stuff of hack and gag.

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-02-12T00:03:36+00:00

    I have seen a few times where pieces of different color end up n the same position. Usually it is on the first roll and the game will crash eventually because of it. It seems just a glitch. I win quite a few games so obviously everyone isn't cheating.

    I play on Win7 and I know there is an earlier version . . .  so maybe we are all talking about two different things.

    Still I run across more quitters than people who seem too lucky.

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