MS cracks down on Gamerscore cheaters

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Auron said:

fooflexible said:

bobobologna said:
Some of you guys have poor reading comprehension, or just don't like to read long posts.

Fooflexible, I totally see where you are coming from. I absolutely hate the idea of the gamerscore. I've gotten stuck in 2 games on the PS3, and I downloaded a savegame just to save myself from a headache. Enjoyed the rest of the games after skipping past the level I was stuck on. I would hate to be branded a cheater online for those actions, especially if I were paying for XBox Live (which is one reason I sold my XBox360, got tired of paying for every little thing).

Thank you! Finally someone. Well the bottom line is despite whats being said here, there is nothing wrong with us for buying a game, playing without cheating online and occassionaly using a gamesave to bypass stuff. And what I mean is we are not hurting anyone elses experience and Microsoft should be grateful for our business, but since they are not I will most definitly take my business elsewhere.

Another thing people are forgeting, is because of Microsoft attiutude toward polcing the gaming public we are missing out on cool features, like mods, and an internet browser.

You shouldn't have bought a 360 if it is such a problem that there is no internet browser. Yoiu have mentioned this a few times, you should have bought a PS3 or even a Wii if an internet browser was so important. Bottom line you are cheating anyay you look at it. What you are arguing is if this cheating(using gamesaves) is ok or not and frankly if you suck at a game well then download the gamesave. I myself have used this method in FF9 to obtain Excalibur 2. It is still cheating but justified.

 I do have a ps3 and  a Wii, and no the internet Browser isn't that important to me, it's that MS announces crackdowns, when they could be announcing new features. And the irony of the only console maker that actually makes a browser and having not included it, just seems silly. It's something that could have been given as a perk, but they held back. With that said I will from time to time use the browser, in fact when my friends are over since my consoles are in the basement and if we want to check out youtube videos I'll just pull them up from my ps3 instead of going to my office. Or sometimes I'm using a walkthrough from gamefaqs to help with something and I can have it pulled up on on system while playing the game with the other. 

Another point about cheating I'll just say everyone is so quick to judge on the matter, and if I'm labeled a cheater I don't really care, it's that we should make a distinction from offline to online. I'd never cheat even if I knew how online, I just think it ruins the experience with everyone else. It's something to do offline, where it will only affect you. Microsoft in my opinion should have allowed cheating and alternate gamesaves, they spend too much time prohibitng people that want to enjoy themselves with these features, when they instead could have allowed them to and then installed some type of security features to prevent these cheats from accessing achievements.