Persistent Online Worlds, Persistent Risks: The Security Challenges of MMORTS Games
Massively multiplayer online real-time strategy games occupy a specific and underexamined position in the gaming security landscape. Unlike session-based games where a match ends and the state resets, MMORTS titles run continuous worlds where player-built empires, alliances, and resource stockpiles exist around the clock, whether or not the player is logged in. That persistence creates a threat model significantly closer to financial services platforms than most people in either the security or gaming industries tend to acknowledge.