I respectfully disagree. Go watch a movie/playthrough video on YouTube if you want to experience a game's story with zero challenge. I mean I really don't care if people cheat (you're only cheating yourself out of the experience the developers intended for you, so I mean, go for it) but it's kind of sweet to know that people can't necessarily get away with it anymore.Originally Posted by Skyblade
I like that.
I like Kung-Fu.
Or they could, you know actually play the game how it's suppose to be played and get better.
Or they could, you know, engage with an entertainment medium in the manner which is most entertaining to them.
Or they could, you know, just watch it like DMKA said. If they're cheating they're not really doing the work on their own. I'm in complete agreement with him on this. I mean why play a game if you're gonna cheat and not actually play the game.
(SPOILER)Talking like this is fun
Who are we to decide what other people find fun? Why does the idea of fun have to be some static thing, rather than a malleable idea which different people experience in different ways at different times?
Sometimes I like to play a difficult game where I win after a lot of effort.
Sometimes I liked to play a game where I can earn a ridiculous level of power after a lot of effort.
Sometimes I just want to be Lu Bu amid an infinite crowd of no-account scrubs, invincible and terrible.
If someone wants to cheat their way through a game, as far as I am concerned they are free to do so. I don't see why anyone is getting all judgmental and self-righteous about this. Y'all are just being a bunch of stop having fun Guys
Those last two things are the same, you have to unlock Lu Bu, he's usually pretty hard to unlock too so you've earned your rampage
I enjoy seeing nerds get butt-hurt, and enlisting the use of cheats designed just to get achievements (I haven't played SC2 but I assume there's certain cheats in the game that make the game easier etc.) sounds like one of the saddest forms of cheating. Deactivating someone's copy of the game may be a little bit harsh, but at the end of the day if you don't cheat (or simply stick to cheating via the allowed means) then you won't have the hand of Blizzard come crashing down upon you. Read the rules and don't complain when you get caught breaking them.
The point is there shouldn't be any goddamn rules about the singleplayer portion of the game in the first place. It should be up to the player to do with it whatever he wants. It's none of their smurfing business.
Why can't a company regulate the game they made? o_O That's an absurd notion to me.
I think it's smurfing hilarious, go Blizzard.
gee I don't know. Maybe because people pay for the goddamn game so they can own it and do whatever they want? Why not allow car manufacturers take back the car they sold you if you install custom rims on it while we're at it. Because that would make just as much sense as this.
The argument in this thread is about as retarded as the "fiasco" itself.
Indeed. Next someone will get sued or banned for scratching a game disk or something, because they "altered" itgee I don't know. Maybe because people pay for the goddamn game so they can own it and do whatever they want? Why not allow car manufacturers take back the car they sold you if you install custom rims on it while we're at it. Because that would make just as much sense as this.
Going to extremes always makes a good example and completely supports and defends your argument in the event that you, yourself, cannot do so. If a company is known for banning people who cheat, setting aside the right versus wrong argument, why would you tempt fate and do it anyway? I have absolutely no sympathy for the person the article is about because, in his own words, he was prepared for it to happen and did it anyway.
Blizzard can do whatever they want with their own game. They are not forcing you to buy it, play it, or cheat while doing either of them. All of these are personal choices. If they want to hurt their public image, they can go ahead and do that. Clearly they are not hurting financially from decisions like these.
PS: Car companies cannot take back the cars you purchase because they have no way to physically monitor it, in the same vein as Blizzard can with their respective franchises. They also cannot ban or sue you for scratching a disc for the same exact reason. Stop using silly and ignorant examples an in attempt to support your already poor argument.
gee I don't know. Maybe because people pay for the goddamn game so they can own it and do whatever they want? Why not allow car manufacturers take back the car they sold you if you install custom rims on it while we're at it. Because that would make just as much sense as this.
I've never played any Blizzard games, so I'm just going to talk about my opinion of cheating in general. Cheating when competing with actual people is kinda lame (unless you know everyone's cool with it). When it's just you in your own home playing a single player game no one should give a smurf, especially not you.
The missions in GTA games bore me. Playing the game "correctly" bores me. Putting in the cheats to get every weapon and infinite health the blow the smurf out of everything ever with no consequence is so much fun. Anyone who has ever used the flying car cheat in GTAIII can tell you how fun it is just messing around, testing the limits of what you can do. Though obviously they intended for you to have this kind of fun, seeing as they programmed the cheats in purposely.
Tomb Raider I have fun playing, even when not cheating. But I also have a lot of fun exploiting the corner glitch (allows you to get to the top of a tall structure by repeatedly jumping in front of its corner). It's fun exploring areas the developers never intended for me to reach. It's not an especially big area, but when I found out I could get on the other side of that really big gate in front of Lara's mansion, I was pretty excited. Also this one time in TRII I used a game shark because I wanted to use weapons inside Lara's house, and when I pulled out her guns she had this white pyramid thing piecing her stomach. Then whenever I shot the weapons, her hands and her head were replaced by her butt for some reason. Fun fact: Lara does not enjoy swimming in this condition.
There are also times when I want to enjoy (or laugh and point at) a game's story, but I am short on time or just plain don't like the gameplay. I can cheat and zip right through it.
I am not breaching any terms of service (smurf you game maker if I am). I am not cheating anyone out of anything. I am not affecting anyone or anything at all except for me and my own gaming experience.
In summary: I like having fun. I like playing games to have fun. If I have spent money on a game and I am not having fun, I will save the situation by doing things to make it more fun. Sometimes I will do these things to make an already fun game even more fun.
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