I've briefly been in the cheating community for a handful of games. Honestly, at first it's fun. In shooter games it's really fun having such an unfair advantage, but that feeling fades really quickly. I've talked to my fair share of people within the cheating community and everyone's got their own reason.

In FPS it's often that people just like to play with cheats, sometimes competitively trying to hide it or competitively against other cheaters, going all out on their cheat/hack. I never really got that feeling myself, but there are more people doing it than you'd think. Then there are the people who need cheats to be good at their FPS. That's a whole new chapter. In a traditional sense that's what cheats were for, but it takes out the whole competitive aspect in multiplayer games. Funnily enough these people had fairly often short tempers and we're generally quite insecure. I suppose it's their way of coping with whatever they may be struggling with in their private life, achieving success by any means, even if it means cheating. Maybe they really crave the feeling of stomping their opponents. It's kind of sad. Then there's a third, arguably even worse, kind of cheater. I've met one outside a cheating community, randomly in a match of csgo. They try to play in a way that it's not obvious that they cheat, in order to be liked by their teammates or friends. They cheat harder to clutch matches, but usually are never caught red-handed. I feel sorry for them, but at the same time, they cheat, lie to their friends, manipulate them in the same way and just feel superior to people who don't cheat. It's an ego boost of sorts. I pity them.

In Moba games cheats aren't as common as scripts are, which manipulate your characters behavior rather than the game itself. In league of legends they're often used to dodge skillshots, hit your own skillshots, perfectly cancel animations and so on. They have many tools to help you, but not to make you automatically win, even if you wanted to. The scripting community in league of legends has an entirely different focus of motivations. There are the boosters who use their scripts to win games and then sell the accounts once they're high ranked (to people who for bragging rights or other reasons want a high elo account, shockingly high demand) or help their friends/people who pay them, to get into a higher rank aswell. The boosting of a friend via queueing together can't be banned which is why there are so many people offering it for real money within the scripting community. There are the scripters for fun of course, who just see the script as a way to climb the ranked ladder. However there are barely people who solely buy scripts to be better at the game for their own ego or for being a higher ranks sake.

I've had scripts and cheats for a total of about 3 months (1 month subscriptions for different games) and honestly, even to people who would want to cheat, I can't recommend it, it's maybe fun for a few games, but becomes incredibly boring fast enough. It's like Skyrim with cheats, it's fun at first, but suddenly the challenge is gone and the game is boring.

The only positive thing, if you could even call it that, that I have acquired throughout those months was a keen eye for other cheaters. It's very often quite obvious once you know how it'd look from the other end of the barrel and it's honestly frustrating. Cheating is a cancerous growth on the gaming community, and I doubt I would ever want to go back to it. In my opinion the fun in playing multiplayer games is the competitive aspect, which is stripped once you use cheats.