Hacking isn't pure evil

The Once-Ler wrote:I thought the ps3 was supposed to be free from hackers:/  I  see them all the time.  So much for Sony's security.  I hope they can keep dks 2 hack free.  I don't remember it at all in Demon's Souls.  What is the difference and why is dks hackable when des was not?

Also, demons souls is server based, whereas dark souls uses a peer to peer connection, servers are much more easily monitored. Don't know about this mega mule though, as by the time dark souls was out my ps3 was totalled.

No offence to the OP but:

Hacking was not intended to be in the game by the developers, they most likely knew someone would do in eventually but it is not a tool that is available in the game.

It might be fun, but its only fun for you or the person hacking, that is why people hack in the first place, its fun. But even if you intend to do it only with a friend Dark Souls is the kind of game were you cant really do that, since anyone at any given time can invade you.

Also you seem to totally miss out on the majority of the hackers (at least on console) that invade to either waist time, have fun while invincible or gather hatemail, all at the cost of other gamers fun, while breaking the rules of either PSN or XBL.

Aigaios wrote:No offence to the OP but:

Hacking was not intended to be in the game by the developers, they most likely knew someone would do in eventually but it is not a tool that is available in the game.

It might be fun, but its only fun for you or the person hacking, that is why people hack in the first place, its fun. But even if you intend to do it only with a friend Dark Souls is the kind of game were you cant really do that, since anyone at any given time can invade you.

Also you seem to totally miss out on the majority of the hackers (at least on console) that invade to either waist time, have fun while invincible or gather hatemail, all at the cost of other gamers fun, while breaking the rules of either PSN or XBL.

well organized multiplayer isn't that good on the consoles, so you can't really use it as a tool. Some of us are old enough to know that fun and fair are two very friendly words in the video game world, and anyways, a developer cannot control how a player plays their game, especially when that game wasn't going to be on a certain platform in the first place. Like mods, benevolent hacking is something that can only be done properly on the PC, where multiplayer is much easier to organize, as opposed to console, where you don't know that the fire on your invader's great lord greatsword actually doesn't do anything.

Nothing is pure evil. That doesn't mean we should just embrace it. Save edits/hacks/mods can be used to make builds, make custom pvp arrangements, or be used to explore areas of the game quicker.

HOWEVER, they most often end up in the hands of the immature f---bags that will one shot you, use escape death, and just ruin pvp in general. Dark Souls would have a much larger following if hacking was not such an issue.

I would rather not be able to instantly make builds, or explore unfinished segments in the game if it meant that I would never question whether or not a person I invade is going to use hacks on me. I'm sure most people would agree on this point. This is just civilization in its most basic form. You sacrifice some of your rights for the sake of having less harm done to you.

Edit: This is the justification for my down rep.

hey its andres wrote:Nothing is pure evil. That doesn't mean we should just embrace it. Save edits/hacks/mods can be used to make builds, make custom pvp arrangements, or be used to explore areas of the game quicker.

HOWEVER, they most often end up in the hands of the immature f---bags that will one shot you, use escape death, and just ruin pvp in general. Dark Souls would have a much larger following if hacking was not such an issue.

I would rather not be able to instantly make builds, or explore unfinished segments in the game if it meant that I would never question whether or not a person I invade is going to use hacks on me. I'm sure most people would agree on this point. This is just civilization in its most basic form. You sacrifice some of your rights for the sake of having less harm done to you.

Edit: This is the justification for my down rep.

Ah but most of those immature f-bags get trolled by other immature f-bags who know marginally more than them, enough to curse their weapons beforehand.

But you're absolutely right, and the analogy you provided could not be more fitting. Except it simply isn't the case in this specific situation. If you're sacrificing some of your rights here, it means that you are artificially limiting yourself if you don't DC or happen to be in a place with a lot of cliffs and pits (DCing is perfectly fine, use it often). If I hadn't had a (possible hacking device), the immature f-bag hacker would've had the satisfaction of killing me and empowering himself emotianally. You have no idea how discouraging it can be to someone who hacks for evil if they are utterly slaughtered by a player who they originally perceived to be easy prey. Granted, I hope that there is no hacking in DaS2, because of your own point made, however there is a glaring error in your perception of hacking: it is more of an unintended privilege than a right, and should not even exist in the first place. I'm just saying that we should make the most of it for the GOOD of the community.

Just to go on a tangent, I have a pipe dream: If a future souls game has a hacker problem, then I would like the devs to mod in a weapon. It does piss-poor damage, has piss-poor range, is near weightless, and is COMPLETELY USELESS in a normal game in any normal situation. It has a script attached, however, that checks if a player has stats or stat match ups that are completely outside the normal systems (like 3000