07-05-2003, 04:10 AM
Personally, I view cheating in video games no different then other games. Is it cheating to look through the deck in solitaire? Nope. Is it cheating in poker? Yep.
I've generally found it odd that people who wouldn't cheat in a board game don't see any problem cheating in online games. Probably some kind of disassociation issue, since they don't "see" the person they're cheating against. Or just possibly since a 'computer game' is viewed as something different than just a 'game' played on a 'computer'. It'd be an interesting research study - have one group of players who never met each other play together, and have another group that meet for five minutes (not enough to bond) but play sequestered from each other. Then introduce an easy cheat and see how many of each group would do it.
Anyway, to be more on topic - in single player situations, the only person you can cheat is yourself. If you want to do something to see what happens, there's no harm. And since you might not be able to import your character into the 1.10 final, why waste the time. You might just get to Act 5 nightmare and have to start over again.
(Pretty refrained for a Mac user who can't even try it yet, don't you think? Not overly petty though - it's obviously a special build to prevent battle.net, and probably rushed out to quell the 'Since those guys left, are they going to cancel the patch?' rumors. They'd need to test the build to make sure it doesn't do anything weird before they release it, and since we know they don't have many QA testers they could only do one a time.)
I've generally found it odd that people who wouldn't cheat in a board game don't see any problem cheating in online games. Probably some kind of disassociation issue, since they don't "see" the person they're cheating against. Or just possibly since a 'computer game' is viewed as something different than just a 'game' played on a 'computer'. It'd be an interesting research study - have one group of players who never met each other play together, and have another group that meet for five minutes (not enough to bond) but play sequestered from each other. Then introduce an easy cheat and see how many of each group would do it.
Anyway, to be more on topic - in single player situations, the only person you can cheat is yourself. If you want to do something to see what happens, there's no harm. And since you might not be able to import your character into the 1.10 final, why waste the time. You might just get to Act 5 nightmare and have to start over again.
(Pretty refrained for a Mac user who can't even try it yet, don't you think? Not overly petty though - it's obviously a special build to prevent battle.net, and probably rushed out to quell the 'Since those guys left, are they going to cancel the patch?' rumors. They'd need to test the build to make sure it doesn't do anything weird before they release it, and since we know they don't have many QA testers they could only do one a time.)