Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-9890645-20131112205748/@comment-11490363-20131215220917

CforKat wrote: @Ranoake

After reading your arguments here and in the other thread regarding this topic, I have to grudgingly acknowledge that you do have some solid points, and you argument makes sense.

I do have to point out that what you said about everybody taking advantage of the situation and not reporting anything about it to Mobage is false though. I know for a fact that several players actually DID report to mobage several issues that this event started out with, including this one.

In the end I have come to the conclusion that this is in fact a grey area and a Morally responsible person with a very strong sense of integrity would have probably avoided the event seeing as how it was broken. Calling those people people cheaters however is completely wrong in my opinion. That is a very strong word, and in my mind does not fall in a grey area at all, it is absolute. If you deliberately take certain actions out of the norm and outside of the TOS in order to gain an advantage over the other players, that to me is cheating.

Nobody here claimed to be perfect, and I will leave it at that. Thanks.

I do take a pretty hard line with things, and I am not perfect either, but I admit that what I am doing is wrong rather than pretend it is right. I download music and TV shows  and never pay for Windows. That said, I would gladly hand cash to the hands of the bands I download to compensate them but that option is not available to me in most cases. I do also use netflix, my brother's account, which some would consider cheating, and I probably would not argue it. I may get my own account soon in fact, it is worth it.

I did not mean to imply that all people cheated, just that a lot of the people on this thread had the same sorts of arguments for playing vs not.

As for the strong morality comment, that is a whole other can of worms that I will just avoid. My stance is still this: If you know of or suspect a bug and exploit it, you are cheating. Others clearly disagree, to each their own.