Probably vanity.
"Guitar Hero" is a music game that has been popular all over the world, players need to use guitar-shaped controllers to simulate the guitar, bass and other instruments in the song to complete the track, which can be simply understood as the guitar version of "Taiko Master".
And just like "Taiko Drum Master", this game also has a large community of racing players, and the hand speed and reaction nerves that are almost impossible to achieve in the eyes of others are the results of their day and night.
The most high-profile player in the Guitar Hero community is undoubtedly a young man named Schmooey, who has been able to complete various difficult tracks at a young age since his debut in 2018, and these results that have deterred countless veteran players have also made him the "strongest in history".
But what everyone did not expect was that not long ago, the highly anticipated top player publicly admitted that most of his dazzling achievements were exchanged for cheating.
The whole story began with a new video he posted on YouTube last December. In the video, he once again showed his superior skills and easily won another world record - the perfect completion of the difficult track "9 Patterns Of Eternal Pain". Just when everyone was amazed, some careful professional players saw the hint in the video - the notes displayed in real time in the game did not match the operation of Schmooey's fingers.
In fact, Schmooey's videos have long been accompanied by small problems such as frame drops, black screens, and delays, although some people have indeed come forward to point out these strange places, but given Schmooey's own reputation, these problems are not a problem at all, and everyone prefers to believe that it is a small accident in the video production process of the top player.
But this time is a little different, Schmooey made a fatal low-level mistake this time, the Windows Media Player progress bar flashed at the end of the video, enough to prove that this is not a real game, but a pre-recorded video, Schmooey's amazing operation is just with the video to do the model.
One top player took the lead in cheating, which is definitely one of the biggest news for the entire Guitar Hero community. Countless players began to dig up Schmooey's previous videos to try to find evidence of his cheating, and in the face of the entire community's doubts, Schmooey also had to come forward to explain that he had indeed manipulated these videos, but he insisted that only a small number of videos were modified, and most of the recordings were his own true level.
However, players who prefer to be more realistic do not let him go easily. In the following days, Schmooey dug up more and more fake videos, and his claim that "a small percentage" of fake videos actually reached nearly a hundred, which covered a variety of fake means, and according to his own explanation afterwards, his most common cheating method was to reduce the speed of the game to 0.75 with the help of CE modifiers, and then increase the playback speed of the recorded video to 132.5%, and then to achieve the effect of fake real by post-editing the audio speed.
On Jan. 15, Schmooey posted a video of his apology, admitting to cheating, deleting everything he uploaded, locking down his social media accounts, and announcing that he would return the prize money he had won at events over the years. But despite this, he made a long list of his apologies, documenting some of his own purported "real accomplishments" in an attempt to salvage his last reputation.
Does Schmooey have the strength? In fact, there are, he himself has attended many offline events, competed on the same stage with other top players, and even this time was the video of the problem, his performance in the first half is perfect, in other words, even if he does not use these side doors, he is still a strong top player, as for why he chose to cheat, I am afraid that only he himself can explain the reason behind this.