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From March 18th to March 22nd local time, the 2024 Game Developers Conference (GDC), known as the “Spring Festival Gala in the gaming industry”, was held in San Francisco, USA, with a total of nearly 30,000 game developers from all over the world. Practitioners gather here to communicate and discuss the latest developments in the game industry. Tencent Game Security debuted at GDC for the third consecutive year, demonstrating its leading game security solutions to global developers.
A professional team that has been sharpening its skills for twenty years
Tencent Game Security ACE is one of the important products of Tencent Games participating in GDC this year. It is a global team with nearly 20 years of experience in game security operations and confrontation. Since the moment Tencent Games established an anti-cheating team in 2005, this team has shouldered the important task of protecting the game and creating a fair competitive gaming environment!
From the fantasy series of games in the past to the four masterpieces of Tencent Games, to today’s popular mobile games “League of Legends”, “Honor of Kings” and “Peace Elite”, each of Tencent’s games has the blessing of the Tencent Games security team. At present, Tencent Game Security already has the industry’s top technical solutions and operational ideas. The team has gradually expanded from anti-cheating in the past to game studios, crackdowns on black products, account security protection, content risk control management, digital copyright protection and many other business modules. , the business has also moved from domestic to overseas.
Play Fair, Cheats Aware, experience anti-cheat real-machine interaction first-hand
GDC was founded in 1988 and has been held for 36 times. The scale has grown from 25 people at the beginning to nearly 30,000 people today. It has become a benchmark for global game development. At this year’s GDC exhibition, we brought exclusive plug-in real-machine experience activities to global game developers. Game developers from different countries and regions experienced first-hand the harm of plug-ins to a game, and the role of ACE in fighting against plug-ins. process.
A European developer who went to experience it said that he is an in-depth FPS player. In his many years of gaming experience, he deeply feels the fatal blow that game cheats can have on a game. Due to the lack of professional confrontation teams, some manufacturers will feel a great sense of powerlessness whenever some new plug-ins come. I have also personally witnessed the decline and decline of a good game due to the game’s plug-in problems and the incompetence of the game manufacturer.
Another game developer from Asia said that game cheats are now a global game security issue. No matter where it is, as long as there are popular games, there will be the invasion of illegal products.
According to data from the “2023 Game Security White Paper”, the number of overseas cheats counted by Tencent Game Security in 2023 has increased by more than 50% compared with 2022. In addition, because overseas game account registration costs are lower, overseas cheats are more likely to appear cheating. Sexual cheating. Many cheating players continue to change their accounts and cheat even after being punished. Therefore, overseas security countermeasures have higher requirements for the timeliness and comprehensive coverage of cheating detection.
Data also from the white paper shows that in 2023, the number of PC game plug-in samples will increase by 49% year-on-year on a monthly average. Mobile game plug-ins have also grown significantly, and customized plug-ins accounted for 76.9%. Therefore, in the face of serious security issues, developers all say that a hard-core anti-cheating product is quite necessary for game manufacturers.
Together For Fair Play is a one-stop game security solution that promotes fair competition.
Tencent Game Security’s current solutions cover all aspects of games, including end-mobile game reinforcement, anti-cheating, digital copyright protection, content security solutions, economic security solutions, etc. At the same time, Tencent Game Security’s one-stop game security operation and management platform ——ACE International official website has also been put into use, bringing stable and high-quality security confrontation and operation services to global game customers.
Not only does it continue to accumulate in its own technological development, but also in the ecological co-construction of the industry, as the chairman unit of the Game Security Committee of the Guangdong Game Industry Association, Tencent Game Security also continues to contribute to the industry. As of 2024, Tencent Game Security has held the “Game Security Industry Summit” for 6 consecutive years and released the “Game Security White Paper” for 3 consecutive years. Last year, it launched game security themed salons in major cities across the country multiple times, aiming to communicate with global game players. Partners work together to promote the healthy development of the game industry.
Global developers’ “close contact” with Tencent game security
This time, ACE made its second appearance at GDC. While showing its diverse and leading anti-cheating technologies to global game developers, many developers were deeply attracted by the little mascot on ACE’s booth and had a “visit” with ACE. “Intimate contact”–cheer-to-cheek photo.
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