12-13-2008, 10:23 PM
Mathalamus Wrote:laz is overreacting
one cheat and he completetely stops working on a mod, ONE CHEAT! overreaction to a mostly harmless thing.
Oh, it wasn't just ONE CHEAT.
It was ONE CHEAT + the fact that over 50% of the players maphack + the frequency of posts saying the random modifier recipe doesn't work after X tries (= user duped the item) + the fact that there was already a drop mod two weeks after release + the amount of hacked/duped items on Hamachi (it is well known that every Starhawk has the same stats), ruining the game for innocent newbies + the fact that people gladly use -direct to avoid the PlugY respec block and hammer the respec button hoping to trigger the PlugY bug that was the whole reason for the block and end up with 1000 skill points + the fact that the resolution hack (which allows you to see monsters before they see you, teleport twice as far etc.) is considered 'not really a cheat' + the wide spread of piracy in the community + the fact that M2008 was absolutely hacked to pieces by every private realm in existence, usually breaking things in the process and resulting in bug reports to me + etc...
The only reason why not absolutely everyone cheats is because Hero Editor doesn't work and the instant gratification kiddies give up at that point.
The excuse I hear a lot of times is 'it's just single player'. In other words, it is apparently okay to cheat to win against the computer but not against other players. In yet other words, single player games have no reason to exist or be challenging. Odd reasoning, this.
Mathalamus Wrote:also if he really did stop making an update...why isnt it posted on laz's main site?
It was posted in the forum, but not on the front page because telling new users that 'this mod is so infested with cheaters that I give up, lol' is hardly good advertising.
Then the thread turned into a discussion of whether I have the right to put an ultimatum on the cheaters and I deleted it.
Mathalamus Wrote:does he not know hell lose fans and popularity when stopping devolopment? he shoudl think things through before making such rash dicsions
Considering Median is the only non-sucky mod that is updated at all, and people were happy to play M2008 1.57 for a year, I find this statement a bit dubious.
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Pulsar Wrote:Unfortunately I'm not the only one to post/upload cheats ! Look in the thread, they are drop mods for MXL.
Yes. I banned that guy from my forum the instant he posted it there. He came back with a smurf account and posted the link again in every forum yelling something about power to the people. Never mind that getting banned is exactly what would happen if you posted a maphack link on the Blizzard forums.
A paragon of justice and freedom he is not.
Pulsar Wrote:But Laz is always overreacting for everything, I don't think he aborted the 1.90 patch because they are some hacks. He know that if he won't release updates, his mod is doomed.
About as doomed as Eastern Sun, which last added content a few centuries ago and only releases balance patches?
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Bao Yan Wrote:Is freedom of choice allowed in the Median community?
The freedom to give hacked/duped items with +205% spell damage to other players so the game is ruined for them? Or the freedom to provide people with hacked level 120 characters that can do every uberquest easily so people no longer have a reason to actually level up a new character, so the game is ruined for them?
Or my freedom to choose to prevent people from ruining the game for others?
The bottom line is, if cheating is so easy that you have to be a paladin to avoid the temptation to cheat, then a lot of people will be seduced into cheating and quit the game, then find another mod that doesn't have as many cheaters. So yes, you cheating in single player impacts my business interests as soon as you post a screenshot of you easily defeating Quov Tsin with your hax, like a few dozen people have been doing so far.