May 01, 2004

I know I'm gonna turn this into a rant...

Basically, most of my ranting about videogaming goes into writing articles for gamertagdatabase.com. My gamertag is Justicar, if you couldn't have guessed, and I write about an article a month or so for GTDB.

I know I'm gonna write a rant about this, but I just needed to vent here first.

How can people be so lazy as to not even play their own games?

Glenn, whatever do you mean? OK...I stopped playing SOF2, and most other first-person shooters because of the prevalence of hacks. That is, aimbots, wallhacks, speedhacks, and armorhacks. There are others, of course, but those are the ones that irk me to no end. What does it prove to load a program that aims your weapon at someone else's head the second they pop into range? Notice I said range and not view, because aimbots usually aim straight through walls and other obstacles. Easiest way to catch an aimbotter. Watch him. If he's tracking people's heads through corners and behind walls, he's aimbotting.

Anyway, I'm astounded at the number of people who use these hacks. WHY?! You can't have any fun unless other people are dying even if you have NOTHING TO DO WITH IT? Please. People who use hacks in first-person shooters are scum. Plain and simple...scum. They are pathetic, no-skill morons that are so insecure with themselves that they need to cheat to play an online game against people they don't even know.

So I figured that was it, right? No. Now, you can PAY to have other people play your game for you. Don't get me wrong, I always knew that people paid other people for items and such in MMORPGs...but how freakin' pathetic do you have to be to PAY CASH for in-game money so that you don't have to play?

Fundamentally, I have a problem with this. I play games to relax, to have fun, to match up against other people in a relatively balanced playing environment. When I jump into BFVN or COD or whatever, and some moron is going 22-1, and he's shooting people through walls and headshotting people with a pistol across the map, I assure you, I'm not having fun...even if he's on my team.

If you're going to be that lazy, play against other hacks. May the best hack win. Stay the hell away from me.

Posted by Glenn at May 1, 2004 05:59 PM