mesoteto said:
fooflexible said:
Cheating implies playing with an advantage not intended by the developer. Downloading a game save to skip a level, is like skiping a chapter of a dvd we don't like, or speed reading past a boring page in a book, I'm not playing with weapons I shouldn't have yet, or a god mode. And game saves are not affecting anyones online experience.
If your principles are so high and mighty that you wouldn't dare skip a level by cheating, that's great for you, but now we are going to impose these principles on everyone?
Secondly this is not good for business, people downloading games saves aren't people stealing games, they are spending healthy amount of money on this industry, they are also people with disposable income as they have pissed money away on devices to hook up their harddrive or memory devices to their pcs. So Microsoft is pissing off good customers. And seriously who's not buying Microsoft games because a few other people out there are cheating? No one. So as Microsoft falls to third place in the console race, in arguably Sony's biggest year, Microsoft's strategy is to spend money on policing the only gaming community that has to pay subscription fees.
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you just are mad b/c you do it...its not a bad thing to get people to play by the rules
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To play by the rules? What rules? I buy a game to be entertained by it. I spend alot of money on gaming, I think I earned the right to play the way I want (offline) whether you agree or not(Again this isn't about preference this is about what everyone should have the right to do, without being policed by the console maker). To pretend I have to adhere to some rules when purchasing a game, would be like you buying a football, and an nfl offical finds out you have been playing with your friends on a nonregulation field, so decides you post your name on a list as a cheater. I'm like screw you I bought the ball I'll do what I want with it, and I bought the game, so I'll do the same.
