Zantenkai wrote:
I don't want to sound like a dick, especially since I'm new to FFXI. But i've been a console gamer for a very long time and play online ALOT. Call of Duty. Battlefield, Metal Gear Online. Those are just a few of the games I've played online where someone has "My team cheats, I don't care. It's not as if I'M doing the cheating. I'm just accepting the fact that they do it."
That reasoning, that one right there ^ Is completely inaccurate. If you accept cheating and the people who use it. Then all your doing is giving the OK to other players to use them. You know what comes next right? "Oh he's using cheats, @#%^ it am not wasting time doing sh*t the hard way. I'll go download it now. brb." <---- That exact line has been influencial in the down fall of so meny games, you'd of thought it would have gotten old by now. Not intending to aggro you, but I needed your quote and you gave permission to use it at the end of that small piece.
Zan
That reasoning, that one right there ^ Is completely inaccurate. If you accept cheating and the people who use it. Then all your doing is giving the OK to other players to use them. You know what comes next right? "Oh he's using cheats, @#%^ it am not wasting time doing sh*t the hard way. I'll go download it now. brb." <---- That exact line has been influencial in the down fall of so meny games, you'd of thought it would have gotten old by now. Not intending to aggro you, but I needed your quote and you gave permission to use it at the end of that small piece.
Zan
The scenario you pictured involved players apathetic to other players using cheats that negatively affect yet more players. This can't be compared to Neo-Nyzul since the results of the cheating done by players simply don't negatively affect other players, directly or indirectly. No new equipment is introduced to the market, loot pools for other players are not diminished, Neo-Nyzul doesn't suddenly become more difficult the more people beat it.
Being apathetic to something that harms none whatsoever isn't some slippery slope. A player will either decide to adopt the behavior of the cheaters (still, with no adverse effect to anyone else), or not. As has been repeatedly testified in this thread, there are many who don't give a damn, and continue to participate in Neo-Nyzul conventionally, that is if they participate at all.
Edited, Jul 28th 2012 5:06am by SunriderRagnarok