Recently, <em>Deadlock </em>developers created an interesting solution to solve problems with players cheating by turning them into frogs. While timely for the Halloween season, it's also just a silly way to punish them and amuse other players, and I love to see developers make creative choices to prevent cheaters from ruining their games. While not so much "cheating," my favorite developer intervention is probably the Bovine Defense Force from <em>The Witcher 3</em>. Players used to kill cows over and over in White Orchard, an early level of the game, to get a headstart on Crowns, the game's currency. However, once the developers heard of the easy exploit, they introduced a level 27 Chort who would spawn and hunt down players for killing too many cows at once. Hilariously though, high-level players could just farm the cows and the Chorts, but it definitely taught new players a lesson.
