Originally Posted by
Kashis
Yeah, because people hacking is what killed Phantasy Star Universe and part of the reason we never got Phantasy Star Online 2.
A Meseta glitch allowed players to inflate the PC/PS2 servers, because no one liked to grind for stuff, and thought what harm would it do?
It ended up with people reaching the maximum cap on Meseta and making alternate accounts just to hold extra. This in turn lead to prices of materials being incredibly ridiculous (Gra and Ray Photons used for crafting went from 4-5k per to 300k).
Because of this, people left the servers to play on the XBOX/JP servers and the NA servers shut down much earlier than expected.
So no more PSU. And I highly suspect that is one of the major reasons why PSO2 never came here, in conjunction with people doing the free translation for it. Why risk another early closure when all the whales are flocking to the main server already up? Why bother to pay for english voice acting when all the "hardcore" fans always talk about how they prefer JP VAs? Why risk running into censorship issues/complaints because people think breasts can only come in one size or people think that any game where you can choose to make young looking characters is only ever about being a pedo? NA pretty much killed the market for anime based games, but hey that's what everyone asked for.
I like modding when it actually helps to correct a gameplay breaking issue or adds actual depth or useful features, not when it alters a game beyond original intent like removing grind. That was one of the major reasons I could never get in to private servers either for a lot of games like RO and MS. There was always some good and some bad features but shit overall always had a bad balance to it and tended to focus on just the end.
People hacking has caused serious issues for even Warframe: people were gaining access to things they shouldn't have and story was being spoiled among other things. It doesn't matter that it is primarily a PvE game, people hacking isn't making shit better and a lot of people don't like it because it ruins the fun for all the people who grinded for stuff.
How would you feel if you spent days/weeks/months farming for stuff and then someone comes along and just hacks to get a bunch of rare stuff in a day? Oh it's cool though they aren't going to ever really go into public games, they just wanted it for themselves to test things out so it is cool.
Then a few more people do the same thing: hack to get free loot, do crazy game breaking things, but only in private so it's cool, right?
Then someone decides to go public, but even then it's cool it's still just one right? Until more people start doing it and spreading the word on how. Then you have a bunch of people who blow through content, can farm at record speeds, and completely trivialize the game for others. Most people don't like that.
There are games out now that are ghost towns because of the mentality that hacking/duping/botting etc is acceptable. The majority of people that really like a game hate that shit because it ruins them by ruining the fun. Instant gratification gets boring, fast leveling ends with usually a stagnant endgame, and small dupes end up killing a lot of in game economies to the point a wipe is the only way to fix things.
So my answer is yeah it bothers me, a lot, because it has actually ruined games I like and threatened others.
