by skarekrow13 Mon May 13, 2013 4:14 pm
Serious, I agree it's laziness that motivates its use. Calling it "stealing" I could (but won't because there's room for both our opinions here) argue that logic. Basically, I'm saying there's validity in that point but just as much on the other side of the fence. Anyone looking for further information feel free to look up the court cases involving the Game Genie back in the day. Regarding laziness again however, there's another label for it with a different emotional impact: "efficiency."
Essentially, our entire history is predicated on doing things in a way that former "generations" could call "lazy." While it's absolutely true, it's not inherently an argument against something.
I do want to stress yet again that I'm perfectly fine with that viewpoint and understand completely why many are against the MM. This is a case where we both can literally be right.
Befowler, it seems your personal experiences might be running counter to mine. I'm open to being wrong here since I'm not the most avid player at the moment and the flickering is all but ruined it for me. Towel Day might be the last online hurrah for me unless it's fixed. It's not that I wouldn't love the game flickering but I have a backlog of games a mile long that take priority....
Anyway, back on topic...I think it could go either way but would need to see some objective numbers to judge concretely. The MM and glitching are part of the same mold but the chicken and the egg is tough. On one hand, you have the MM which is one guy who hacked and made a watered down version available to the masses. The level of evil it brings compared to good is obviously the controversy we're discussing. On the other is a bunch of other guys who have hacked to a larger degree and are (in my mind) absolutely evil intent.
So which one sparked which? Obviously, hacking inspired the MM since that's what he did but did the MM cause widespread hacking? It's definitely possible. The amount of curiosity into "how did he do that?" could certainly cause a similar spike in initiative into hacking the PS3. On the other hand, it's by no means a layman's tasks and I'm not convinced that the MM (which is SUPER DUPER INSANELY EASY) would significantly increase the pool of players willing to do what's necessary to hack all the way.
I won't go into details but I'll put it this way, I have a hacked PSP. That was a pain but I managed to look up all the necessary steps (trust me, the MM is a joke compared to a hacked PSP). I started the research into the PS3 just to see the chances of the MM being interpreted into full blown hacking by the masses. I gave up my research. Not that I couldn't have completed it. But preliminary musings and concepts convinced me that most people aren't willing to go that far. Not when they can essentially unlimited have Dark Beads casting so easily already.
Again, if other people weigh in and we can get better info, I'd be willing to say MM increased the number of hackers but from what I've seen and researched it's likely the hackers were already on the rise and the MM was a result of that.
With all that disagreeing out of the way I wanna finish with how I could be 100% wrong in almost everything I just said. There is a chance....and I'll admit it's a good one.....that the MM was turned into something FAR more sinister and will absolutely lead to a dramatic increase in hackers. I'm not talking about "could lead to" I'm saying "without a shadow of a doubt will lead to."
Why is that? Well I know how it can go from point A to point B.....someone else likely has too. And no....I won't say what the heck I'm talking about.
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