Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Cheaters, and the like

Cheaters.

What is it about cheating that so many people find appealing? Speaking for myself, I really don't get it. It's a mindset that I just can't seem to understand or subscribe to, I cannot think of an instance in my life where cheating was the good choice.

Before I get too far ahead of myself, let me give you some frame of what I am talking about. Lately, I have been playing CoD Modern Warfare on Xbox LIVE, again.....( I know , I know, "a video game?!? really?!" yeah - really.) ......and the one thing that has stuck out to me above all else (player skill, map knowledge, aiming prowess)  are the hackers and modders.


On any given weeknight, every single lobby is riddled with Hackers, Modders, Exploiters...in short - Cheaters. When I say every single lobby, I mean Every-Single-Lobby....it gets to a point where I cannot play the game because I refuse to go to some youtube page to download some hack to my flashdrive and join the rest of the jackoffs.

Sure, I can move on and play another game, or not play at all: but, why should I? Why should someone who just enjoys a particular  game suffer because of a group of people whose lack of skill spurs them to find a way to cheat the system? Why won't Activision and/or MS fix this? Oh yeah that's right, they have my money already so - what the hell do I expect?

It does not seem fair to either party, I get cheated out of a victory, and the cheaters have a hollow sense of victory, I mean really, these players can't feel like winners for realsies, can they?

To get to the point, FUCK THESE CHEATERS.