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.