How for example a game like world of warcraft with millions of player keep track of player’s gold income to prevent any false way of gaining in game currencies?
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Everything is stored on their servers. If someone gives another player something it goes from their inventory stored on the server directly to the other player’s inventory stored on the server. Like how gmail only gives you access to your own emails. The actual game program (called a “client”) can’t create gold or items or anything, only the server can and because the server isn’t running on the player’s computer it can’t be modded with cheats. All the client does is tell the server what the player is doing and then the server decides if gold should be created, if items should be given etc. The only cheats a player can do is things like automating repetitive inputs. This is called “server authoritative”, the server rules all the player’s states.
At least that’s how it **should** work. Sometimes MMOs have big issues where they do too much on the client (client authoritative) which allows people to cheat with item dupes, invincibility etc.
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