Auron said:
fooflexible said:
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. |
You are still cheating, by your own words you are doing something the developers had not intended you to do. The developers intended that you unlock the features, you use a save file instead of unlocking the features and thus you are cheating. Makes no diff. if you are cheating online or off. |
I'm not going to get into a giant conversation about what cheating is. In fact some developer put cheat codes in through an actual cheat menu, meaning it's actual cheating, and it actually was intended by the developer.(and even if a developer was all for gamesave sharing, it's not there descision, to make the console support it) My point was every part of the game I played I played the way it was intended to play regardless of how I got to that point. But my much larger point was, cheating or not cheating as long as it doesn't affect anyone elses experience online, it should not be policed. Microsoft is saying, even though I bought this, even though I'm using it in the privacy of my own home, even though what I'm doing with it isn't affecting anyone else. THey are going to police my use of it, and put my name on a list and brand me as a cheater. That's bullcrap.
And I'm not questioning the legality of any of this, but this is a serious infringment of my own privacy and freedom. I'm not huritng there business, or anyone elses experience, and I think if everyone here stepped away from their own personal feelings about cheating they would agree. We should have the right to do what we want.
