>If it is criminal to cheat it is not a game anymore.
It never has been a game in the sense you're implying here, that's to say as an informal arrangement, you're literally signing a TOS for a piece of software you're going to use abiding by some rules, it just happens to be a 'videogame'.
And I don't just mean it it in a pedantic sense, but a lot of these games involve money, either by paying for the game or by paying for content, not just gambling, and if someone ruins a product you paid for that's pretty bad.
I'm not sure concerning the details in regards to minors, but terms of service are legally binding contracts, although enforcement depends on the details of any given contract. Terms of service lawsuits absolutely do exist, both by companies as well as by customers. You may remember the George Hotz / Sony lawsuit over jailbreaking the playstation.
> But it is in no way worse to cheat in eg. Fortnite than in a board game like Monopoly.
If you cheat in Monopoly, I can simply not play with you anymore. This is not true of Fortnite. You also have the potential to impact a much higher number of people cheating in Fortnite.
It never has been a game in the sense you're implying here, that's to say as an informal arrangement, you're literally signing a TOS for a piece of software you're going to use abiding by some rules, it just happens to be a 'videogame'.
And I don't just mean it it in a pedantic sense, but a lot of these games involve money, either by paying for the game or by paying for content, not just gambling, and if someone ruins a product you paid for that's pretty bad.