Washington Post article on cheating in games.

[Castelak]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...082701059.html

IMO, Cheating offline OK! Cheating online BAD!

Sorry if it's been posted already.

[Crazycarl]

wow what a crappy article. filled up w/ more quotes, then actual meterial. Also if they would of done their research then they would know that most of the codes in the games are not intended for the players, but more for the testers. That way when they have to play a lv. about 8 or 10 times in a row, and they are trying to find a glitch in the level layout, they can ignore all the shooting going on to find that glitch.

[Half Japanese]

It sounds like the author of the article just took a philosophy course at a community college and tried to apply it to a field where it isn't necessary applicable. Online cheating sucks, but if you dropped $50 on a game, do whatever the hell you want with it.

Journalism sucks. I'm glad I didn't proceed with majoring in that toilet full of turds.

[Castelak]

Ya it's a crappy article but its from washinton post so figured it would be worth posting.

[Ed Oscuro]

Journalism sucks. I'm glad I didn't proceed with majoring in that toilet full of turds.

Indeed, and to think I was interested in it recently!

Also, The Washington Post is a News Corporation business. In other words, Murdoch owns it. Not to say that's responsible for some non-partisan foolishness in a game article Still, reminds me a bit of something I'd expect to read in the Guardian (although English readers would bristle at the implication; he owns the Sun, not the Guardian).

Back to the article: interesting quotes, actually, and it makes me want to look at that 1up site (which isn't part of the News Corp. empire; that's IGN), even if they use them to very weakly "prove" that something bad is happening.

[whoisKeel]

....? They make is sound like you're not a gamer if you don't cheat.

"This is what I tell people all the time, and I'm actually pretty adamant about it: I don't play games to necessarily play the game," Graves says. "I play it for the story line. I play it for the mechanics. I play it for the graphics. I don't want to get stuck coming around the same corner 50 times. I'd rather get past it and see what the next story development is."

What a tool.

[Ed Oscuro]

Yeah, what a tool for not wanting to do pointless things I'm playing Uru - The Path of the Shell and right now I really sympathize with that. Depends on the game, and that guy certainly is saying that it depends on the setup. Nobody should feel they have to suffer though terrible game design, unless of course they find something of benefit in that.

If anybody's a tool, it's the guy who goes on his pointy hat after reading this and starts hating on offline cheaters (a victimless crime if there ever was one!)

[Lord_Magus]

Holy shit, that must be one of the worst articles I've read in a while...