Cheating ethics

[Archon_Wing]

Well, honestly I never really bought the "play the game as it was meant to be played." Unless you designed the game, you have no idea on how Blizzard wanted it.

Maphack uses an external program to modify actual gameplay. There is no legitmate reason to use maphack. The game being too hard is not an excuse. :) I could say that items are too hard to pick up because it gets laggy, so it's ok to use pickit. Seriously, it's not my fault it lags! Or that items are too hard to find, so I'll start running bots. Really, Blizzard's drop system is really bad.

Running the game from a cd image doesn't affect gameplay at all.

I'd like to note that the Lounge Community does not condone cheating online. Not all 3rd party programs are cheats. Diffrence is that you are playing with other people, and it could somehow affect them. It wouldn't be fair to give yourself an advantage over people for your own convience.

Oh and btw, almost all my real life friends who play Diablo 2 cheat. I'm still friends with them, but I don't play d2 anymore. ;) I certainly won't end friendships over game ethics, but I just won't play with them.

Seriously, if you're going to cheat, then whatever. No point justifying what you do. That soda isn't good for me, but I'll drink it anyways without explanation.