Cheating ethics

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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.
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Thanks for your wonderful input and lack of getting mad over a sticky topic which in my case wasn't covered in any other topic. If it was, its waaay far back in the forums and I dislike bringing up old topics since they get too long like this one is about to.

This is not a hard game. Use of good tactics and effective skill placement is all that is needed, hence my suggestion that some reading in that area would be useful. Making the game easier by adding the likes of Maphack is not something I can admire in the least.

It is a hard game. Use of good tactics are effective and skill placement is effective, but in my dad's case it doesn't. He's a picky player and not at all good (he looks down at the keyboard to see his finger on 1 and then presses 1 and then dies because he took too long to drink the potion). Maybe its all the stress from his job or something, but he isnt all that great at d2, making him repeat old habits. Its no fun to him if he keeps dying to the same old monsters in hell, so its maphack or bust for him, which I think is legitimate to make up for his lack of skill.

I on the other hand enjoy a challenge. For example, I just got back into Baldur's Gate 2: TOB. I installed the tactics and ascension mods from weidu creating the hardest game I've ever played. Seriously, one of the first fights is between you and a group of 6 people all of which are 3 levels higher than you, and you start out with generic crap. Try killing duriel with only a cap and a gold short sword at level 12, thats about what happens to you if you take em all on at once.

I dislike maphack, I dislike pickit, I dislike botting, as long as they are on the realms. I just wanted to know mainly if d2loader online was okay since I lost the cd and if a hack to find item levels on items was okay. The first is, and the second isn't. My questions are answered, I think this post has been going on too long.