Cheaters In Home?
by Burbie52, HSM team writer
“It is our choices that show who we truly are, far more than our abilities.” J.K. Rowling
I was recently told by a club leader that he was aware of a few people who had hacked, rather than earned, a very hard-to-get reward: the prized Midway Purple Jacket.
What immediately popped into my head was, “Why?”
Why would anyone want to cheat in a virtual world? The “prestige?” The notoriety? I can’t fathom it. If you cheat in the real world, many times you gain something tangible: a better grade on a test in school, for example. But in Home – which is a virtual community – what is the true gain?
I am not here to name names. That isn’t what this is about. It is about what motivates anyone to cheat in a virtual society. I put a thread in the forums here to see what other peoples’ thoughts were on this subject, as I am mystified at its purpose. I know there are many different people whom I have come across in games who use glitches to cheat; Red Dead Redemption is a great example of this. My friends and I – who know these glitches too – never use them. Because cheating takes away from the game play, as far as I am concerned; I don’t think it is any different in Home.
Let’s look at a few different aspects of cheating that are around in Home. You have some people who do this passively – such as those who use another player or friend to get past a hard level in Midway or another game in Home. I don’t really consider this to be cheating in the true sense of the word, as you are merely asking for help when you are stuck on something. Not all of us have the reflexes to do these types of games any more — or, for that matter, we may never have had the reflexes in the first place. Also, a person may have some sort of physical disability that hinders them.
Then you have people who do something that I do consider cheating. Hacking is not only totally against the Terms of Service agreement, but it is not even trying to play the game and yet still getting the rewards all the same. This I believe is not only wrong, but indicates the type of person behind the controller. If you are willing to cheat like this in a virtual society, then what are you willing to do to get ahead in real life? Again, I ask: what is it you truly gain, except a few Home rewards and some recognition? I think that what you stand to lose by doing this far outweighs what you can possibly gain.
By that I mean the friends you might lose, as they see what type of person you are, and you also risk your PSN account – and possibly the internet use of your PlayStation3 if you are found out. These are things I would think are far more valuable, at least to me, than any Home reward or recognition.
Here are a few of the responses I got from people in the forum here at HSM when I asked this question.
cthulu93
Well I do have a couple of thoughts, first there are your “obsessive-compulsive” types that feel that their time on Home won’t be validated unless they have as many of the Home items as they can get. This is not limited to rewards, but is also extended at times to personal spaces and clothing as well. These types while maybe not having everything in Home, usually have massive inventories and are always looking for more; co-incidentally these types are often extreme trophy hunters as well in my experiences. Second, you have the leader-board chasers. I had a lot of experience with these types in the poker days; they don’t play the game for fun but for the honor that they feel a high leader-board score bestows upon them or – in my own and raybladeX’s example, but without the cheating – they drive up their scores because of competition from a rival, usually if one is driven to cheating because of this the rivalry is no longer friendly – as mine and Ray’s was – but has, for any number of reasons, turned ugly.
cobaltcurse
This should be an interesting read. Most aren’t aware that hacking even exists in Home. I am not sure exactly how its done; I think a PC connected to PS3 is required to hack most of the rewards. DNS or IP change, I heard it was to acquire a handful of old events rewards. Although I did hear one person casually talking about using the DNS IP change to get a lot of rewards at last year’s E3, including Golden Vickie, which sickened me.
I do know of some ways to detect a hacker; one is to see if your “friend” has a Resistance 2 hoodie on, but when you check your friend’s scoreboard they don’t have a One Million score. Like mentioned, Ball Squeezer test for Midway. The EA poker crown, I know only a handful of people have this legitimately (maybe 5-10), and the mods know who has it; most hackers don’t even know how its achieved (so you could use that as a proof). Another sure proof method is items exported from other regions, like the European gargoyle outfit. Mods have asked to report these people, and apparently they take action on the matter.
Sure it is only a game, but it is annoying when someone doesn’t put the same effort you did on winning a reward. Not to mention it doesn’t have the same meaning to the person wearing the reward. Rewards are for displaying an accomplishment of earning it, not pushing a few buttons and stealing it.
So what do you think about all of this? I welcome your comments on the subject.
September 9th, 2011 by Burbie52 | 40 comments
Burbie52 is a 62 year-old published author and founder of the Grey Gamers group within Home. Born and raised in Michigan, she has lived there her entire life, with the exception of a twelve-year residency on the Big Island of Hawaii. She enjoys reading and writing, as well as video games, especially RPG's. She has one son in his twenties.
I know of users who have used IP hacks and others. When the day comes and Sony decides to ”handle” this problem you will know it happened. Until recently the hacks were only free items in home. I guess some cheaters are just too lazy to play the games.. Here is a thought. I knew one girl who had over 900 hacked items and she could not stay on home because the hacked items were messing things up for her. These hacks cause corruption.
Also, if someone has hacks that are bought items in home, well now they could face theft charges.
One last thing. IF Sony wanted to they could perma ban all users who hack. They are in their rights to do so if and when they ever want to.
Technically Sony can perma ban anyone at anytime for just about anything.The question I have is why don’t they ban DSN and ISP hackers?My 2 best guesses are that either they are unable to verify when a hack has occurred or the problem is so vast that if they cracked down on it Home would be a ghost town.These are just guesses,I have no insider knowledge,so feel free to dispute them.
I remember the cheaters in the EA Poker Rooms and how they would strut around in those crowns. And the crowns looked like reject art from Disney cartoons! Their real lives were so empty, so devoid of any feelings of self-esteem and accomplishment, that they had to cheat at ‘virtual’ card games to prop themselves up emotionally and feel like BIG men. Pathetic…. such brutal, empty little lives.
We all knew which ones were the cheaters, especially the ‘team’ cheaters. I never see them in Home anymore.
I think its jumping the gun a bit to say the people who hacked have real lives that are “devoid of any feelings of self-esteem and accomplishment… Pathetic… empty…”.
Do you realize how many people say the exact same thing about people like us, who spend time in a virtual world? That we are devoid of any “real” life and that we are pathetic and sad?
Ever think that people see hacking the items as an accomplishment in and of itself? That a hacked item is a badge of honor and a symbol of “sticking it to the man” so to speak? There also those who hacked to hack items which were otherwise unattainable by ANY means. That awesome unfinished cowl comes to mind here. I would love to have had that but I was unwilling to purchase anything from the ISE store when I visited there many moons ago.
Different strokes for different folks. No need to hate on them just because they seek fun in a way you deem to be inappropriate.
Im not FOR hacking BTW… just a different perspective. See below for my take.
I should have made this clear: they did NOT hack the gold crowns. They cheated at poker! I wrote an entire article outlining all the ways the cheaters were playing those games and how some of their tactics were crashing the system with freezes. My article appeared one week AFTER the EA rooms disappeared. And I still say that the people who conspired to cheat at those poker tables did so because they could not beat us any other way. I also will still say card cheaters, whether in real life or in a virtual reality are miserable pathetic sub-humans.
wow. no props for “beating the system”?
None. You weren’t alive after WW2 when the black marketers were ‘beating the system’. Or when some prize-fights were controlled by unscrupulous criminals who were ‘beating the system’. I can give you so many examples, but let me close with this: I even went so far as to tell my children that Goldilocks deserved to be convicted of “breaking and entering, petty larceny, and trespass” and do hard time. (I am not joking)
Yea, you’re right. I wasn’t. The world is much different today and society has changed. To compare someone who hacked an item in Home to somone who fixed a professional boxing match seems a bit like a stretch. That’s like saying someone who runs over a cat by accident is guilty of manslaughter and should be convicted. They killed a something, doesn’t matter that it wasnt a human, so they need to be punished.
I just can’t see it.
There is a big difference between someone who ran over the cat by accident and someone who did it deliberately. It’s a matter of character. Either a person has personal integrity or they don’t.
Not saying that someone who cheats at cards is a criminal -- just saying they are lacking a sense of honor. And they are too weak and cowardly to try to win by morally acceptable methods.
As for hackers, “sticking it to the man” is something for teens who feel powerless in an adult world. They fear they can never BE the man so they try to destroy that which they cannot attain.
I have to respectfully disagree with you Granny,not all ppl that try to “stick it to the man” are teens.There’s at least 1 other group of ppl,and there may be more,that like to “stick it to the man”.That group is best represented by the character of “Snake Plisken” from “Escape from New York”.Namely ppl that once worked for “The Man”,usually doing the man’s dirty work for him,and come to be dis-illusioned by viewing the darker side of “The Man”‘s activities.In the case of hackers there very well could be former employees of computer companies that now have a different view of their former employers and participate in hacking activities.
Also Granny you bring up the freezes in the old EA poker room so I’ll offer what I witnessed about that situation.Many of the same ppl that were freezing up EA were also freezing up the uncharted temple before it was deleted from Home as well.These were glitchers who found a way to freeze up an area whenever someone they didn’t like came around,I know because I was/am 1 of those ppl that they didn’t like.These ppl were also in a “fam” together so in some ppl’s minds all glitchers and/or “fams” are responsible for those spaces being yanked,well they aren’t.To my knowledge there was only 1 “fam” that participated in these activities and a very small % of the glitching community was involved.It’s a shame that we had to suffer for their misdeeds.
.Personal integrity..well, what about someone who “hire out” another individual to play a game such as,lets say,Trigger Happy, and that “employer” rises to the top of the leader board and doesn’t give the props to the “hired gun”,is this a morality issue? Ethics? And if your a friend of this individual,and have this knowledge,where do you draw the line???..It seems like some people on here always try to make it about “fams” Some people who always talk about “fams” are some of the same people whose ethics and morality that should be in question…’
Are you questioning my ethics?Because your reply seems to indicate that you don’t believe that I accomplished the #1 rank in “Trigger Happy in a Box” on my own to which I’d reply that I will be happy to challenge ANYONE,ANYTIME,ANYWHERE when it comes to that game.As for ppl always talking about “fams”,I find it odd that you think I always talk about “fams”.Many ppl on here talk about their “clubs” or “organizations”,I lump all those together and call them “fams”.I see no real difference between most clubs,organizations or “fams” so when I say “fams” it could be any 1 of those so there really is no way for me to talk about an organization other than by the “fam” name.To answer your question”where do you draw the line?” I’d say 1st get a clue as to where the line actually is BEFORE considering the moral implications.Hearing 4th hand info. that was incorrect the 1st time it was told really isn’t what I’d consider to be verification.Now if you really want a moral dilema have a friend that’s really a guy Irl but acts like a female on Home who then in order to hide that particular piece of info. starts telling lies about you behind your back that’s a real moral question, not whether or not something heard 4th hand was true or not.
Furthermore,I find it quite ironic that I seem to be the only person asked to explain their “fam” references on this mag. when in point of fact there is a perm. “fam” link,to the “Homelings”,at the top of this web page.If you are truely curious as to why someone must always talk about “fams”,and not merely attacking me personally,then I’d direct your question to the editors of this magazine.
I do believe that the Homelings are in fact not a “FAM”. Just because you are choosing to lump those terms together does not mean most people do or know you choose to do that.Calling The Homelings a “FAM” would be like calling a pineapple a prune.They are a legitimate organisation that promotes positive behavior and harmony in the realm of what we know as HOME. but that is my opinion. As for “attacking you”, I don’t what your referencing. I merely stated a hypothetical situation is which I wanted to hear about what people thought to in regards to cheating.
Well your reference to “Trigger Happy in a Box” attached to my response and the fact that it’s not the 1st time that particular charge has been made by the”Nation of Avatars” is kind of an indication of what you had in mind but it’s false so w/e.As for the definition of what a “fam’ really is I agree there are different standards but what is the difference really between the “Homelings” and almost any “mafia”-style “fam”?I see none,they do many of the same things,they both see their members as part of a family and they both get together for social functions.There are great differences in what their ultimate goals are but is that the only thing that seperates a “fam” from a club?If so then the only way to tell them apart would be to find out what their goals are and some groups are more secretive than others so that could be hard.Much easier to view them all as”fams” and judge their worth based on how they are run IMO.
And if the “Homelings” are a pineapple,as you say,and mafia-style”fams” a prune they are both still fruit(fams) and you wouldn’t know the difference between the 2 until you bit into them,meaning until you actually joined a “fam” you wouldn’t know the real difference between that one and any other “fam”.Also,I’ve made this point in the past so anyone that actually reads these pages would see that IMO there is no difference whatsoever between the “Homelings” and any other “fam” and until I’ve heard of some distinguishing characteristic I will continue to call them a “fam” with the same respect I give all “fams”.Until a “fam” proves they deserve no respect I give respect equally to all “fams”.
In response to what “Susan” said, a pineapple is NOT a prune, and I’m glad you used that analogy, because they’re both fruits. xD
Neither do I Granny,I suppose they could’ve moved on to other games but I hope most of them did the honorable thing and deleted their dishonorable accounts.Maybe I wasn’t being clear when I was discussing this before but I was including account sharing when I was talking about having a friend help you out and get an item for you.I don’t believe that disability or lack of reflexes are any more compelling reasons to account share than greed is,even if disability could be proven to exist would that then give the afflicted carte blanche to account share?Imo it would not.
Seeing people with hacked items that I had worked for used to make me angry. For example the red bikini top with scorpion tattoo fro Vickie. I served a lot of drinks and played a lot of levels of Salt Shooter to get enough credits to buy it.
At the time a couple of people I knew went to a web site and paid $10 to download hundreds or thousands of hacked items, including the red bikini top.
It doesn’t bother me as much now as it did back then, but I’m with most of the posters here. I just don’t get the urge to cheat on here.
I hate hackers bcos of them they caused the outage! But banning hackers from Home can be a dangerous double-edged sword as like what cthulu93 said, can turn Home in to a ghost town (something like Asia’s Home; it’s empty again for no reason).
Well, Jay..hackers are already being banned as we speak. But they get replaced by others or new accounts made by the banned.Hacking has been going on long before this great place was created and will continue as long as people see it as something they must try..That is just my opinion. As for it becoming a ghost town,well that comment suggests to me that the majority of the people on Home are hackers and I choose to believe that’s not true,nor is Asia an empty place in my opinion..It has alot going for it that N/A could benefit from.Is the PSN perfect? No.And with places like HSMagazine,the voices from the Nation of Avatars shall be heard and maybe those imperfections shall become our easter eggs..or at least a slice of pie…
I have no idea what imperfections your talking about exactly or how any imperfection that makes hacking possible could become an easter egg,which would imply Sony allowing hacking to continue for the enjoyment of those capable of doing it,but w/e on to more important things.As for choosing to not believe most ppl wouldn’t be defined as hackers in Sony’s opinion,well that’s fine.Some ppl still choose to believe in the tooth fairy,but as this hacking thing is generally hidden I don’t think any assumptions can be made about it’s extent.Which is why I indicated that as 1 possibility,not even a probability.As for the asian Home I wouldn’t know as going there is a TOS violation for N/A users,so I don’t go there.However IF Jay is a frequent visitor and he sees it empty more often than not then his statement is true,from his perspective,regardless of the opinions of others about what Asia’s Home has or has not to offer users.There could be other factors in Asia that are keeping ppl away other than lack of entertaining options.
Great article;) Personally, I belong to the people who think that any reward needs an effort. I got the golden Vickie statue only through Sodium 2 races, that’s the kind of player I am xD For me, the value of hacked rewards is far less important that the risks you take to get them!
I wouldn’t say that people who get hacked rewards are necessarily “bad” people in real life. Maybe they just hack because their friends did before them and they feel a kind of pressure to do the same. There’s also this need of some people to show off and saying like “Hey look what I have, you’ll never get it, you’re a loser, etc.”. This definitely fills the gap between Home virtual life and real life…
Furthermore, I would distinguish these people from “real” hackers, those who can read your IP address and hack your account. At least, people getting hacked rewards would be the only one to pay for what they did if they get caught. How many people got banned for a month or even for ever because of false reports? In my opinion, getting people banned on false reasons should be punished harder than getting hacked rewards.
I would like to thank cobaltcurse for giving us some tips to detect the hackers, because once I saw someone wearing the Resistance hoodie in Midway. I wanted to ask him how he did it but he ran away xD Now I know why!!
The thing that irritated me about Home hacking was the repercussion of it. Home is missing some amazing spaces because of the selfish actions of a few and it’s downright absurd for Sony to punish the entire community for the abuse of this minority. While it is the fault of those who hacked paid for items (purchase or Home game rewards) that these spaces were removed (mainly ALL of EA and Uncharted Nepalese Village) it makes me sad to think Sony didn’t respect the honest (and PAYING) Home community enough to ensure these spaces were brought back to us. THIS was a slap in our face… the hacking… people will do what people will do.
I was one of the ones who legitimately won the FEVA arena gold cleats. I devised a system where I was putting little sticky notes with arrows on my TV to indicate exactly where I needed to press the button for each hole. It worked quite well but took a LONG time to get it right. After I got them… they were hacked. That made me mad because something that is EARNED shouldn’t be hacked. It underminds the efforts of those who legitimately earned it. Same goes for things like… white knight chronicles outfit. I want that outfit but refused to hack it.
Honesty is the best policy. Yet there are sites that have CHEAT sections (Game Faqs for one) and I wonder are they honest cheats? Is there such a thing as an honest chest?
Cheats or “hacks” that are used to beat the system “illegally” or that hurt others ain’t a good thing to do. Stop.
I think I understand why people hack not so much to steal things but just to say they can do it, that is, they look at as a game. Doesn’t mean it’s right though.
Let your conscience be your guide.
Cheating on Home..This can be taken in so many ways. There is one crowd that found the difficulty of a game is spiked ‘so’ high that they become increasingly fustrated and perhaps they really wanted that special / secret item, and would go at that game in midway or wherever to a point of exhaustion and still never get that item. So after throwing their pad to the ground, they look on the internet for the solution they find a site that practically SELLS that item to download, now tell me this, is that kid going to go back to risking reumatoid Artheritis in his or her wrists later in life or is he / she going to go for an option that is less painful and doesn’t involve high blood pressure?
Then there is the other crowd, you ‘cheat’ and ‘Hack’ simply because they ‘can’.
i am oneof those big spenders but a compulsion i think.ps home is geared like real world if u have no money u are looked down apon .if u dont have and bought items u are lood down onso i can see why someone would cheat to get this things.Acceptance is the main reason fit in in a group not be a noob or outsider and thats a main reson its going on.there wouldnt be as much if there were more affordable items on home and prices keep going up.how many kids have 20 dollars to spend on a psn caard so only outcome is to be made fun of,called noob and be outsider.Do i agree with hacking and cheating ,no but do i blame them for wanting to fit in no.
Drunkr. I would tend to agree with you about people looking down on another based on income.However,If I’m poor and hungry,does that give me the right to steal from a store for food?
HOME has generated alot of free items. You can dress yourself and your spaces with “no money down”.Burbie_52 wrote a great article on here about this subject.
http://www.hsmagazine.net/2011/08/living-off-the-land-in-home/
Have I cheated to win something here on HOME? Yes. Do I admit it when asked? Yes. Have I hacked to win a item on here? No. Would I? well,an example would be a friend had a Tekken video arcade game for his personal space. As someone who collects arcade games for HOME,I wanted it.He told me it was a hacked item.Did I want it still? Yes.Did I get it? No. The issue with the Purple Jacket from Midway.If I could,would I hack to get it? No.Do I care if others do? No. I am not a “trophy hunter”.Would I feel different if I was? IDK.
Now for people who talk about hacking into your PS3 via your IP address, well, all I can say is..W/E. My husband talks about people on the 360 saying stuff like that all the time.W/E is my response.
If people want to hack into your crap they wil try and there is little we can do to stop it..Just ask Sony…lol…
Drunkr has brought up a good point about the young kids in Home whose parents buy them a PS3 but no keyboard and no PSN card to use for clothes, personal spaces, costumes, game upgrades, etc. This is why I have urged Sony to allow us to buy ‘gifts’ for friends in Home. I won’t buy someone a PSN card, but I will gladly buy them a new shirt so they don’t have to look noobish. How about a Sony Gift Store in the new Hub/Mall, Sony guys? A place where we can buy these items to send to people who need them? Lockwood has the right idea but the wrong items.
Keara, that is an excellent idea. I have given PSN cards before to a couple kids on my friends list., but that’s a perfect idea.It would be so much cheaper to gift an item of clothing out than an entire card
Keara, I love you, I really do, but enough with blaming kids for everything. There is no magic switch that turns on at a certain age and bestows maturity upon people, and the defense that “you don’t know any better” wears out at about age 10. You simultaneously denigrate the intelligence and understanding of children and give immature adults a free pass when you say “kids” are responsible for something.
The vast majority of teens who are on Home come from families that can afford a $300 piece of entertainment equipment for their children, as well as at least $30 a month in Internet connection fees to get on Home. They can scrounge some allowance together for a $10 PSN card if they want to.
Back on topic, I believe you’ll find that most of these cheaters grew up in a society where effort counted for more than achievement. They’ve been let down by an educational system that should have taught them better, so at the first sign of trouble or difficulty, they go looking for a way around doing the needed work. That is, quite frankly, insulting to anyone who’s worked to achieve an item as elusive as the Purple Jacket. There are no short cuts in life, and people who legitimately earn hard-to-get items show a good deal of persistence, patience and work ethic. I’d guess that they’re pretty successful in everyday life as well, because they have what it takes to succeed.
What does the cheater have, other than the basic ability to Google something? There’s no sense of accomplishment in cheating. The reward is not deserved, so it cannot be a sense of pride. Defending it leads to lies, and the individual is eventually exposed. It does speak volumes about a person’s character when they cheat to get something in Home, typically with the rationalization that “It’s only a game.” That mode of thinking does extend to other areas of life, because a person capable of rationalizing “victimless” cheating and lying is likely to rationalize more extreme behavior.
There’s also some idolatry involved, as the person covets the trophy, rather than the effort required to earn it. That’s a sad way to approach life.
I will make an exception for a select group of hackers, those who look at ferreting their way through code as a greater challenge than the game itself. These people are rare, and they’re the sort that would rather tear apart an engine to see what makes it go fast, then find a way to make it go faster, than actually get on a track and drive it. It’s a particular obsession that takes a great deal of intellectual skill. Unfortunately, the vast majority of hackers are just as bad as other cheaters. They read what someone else did and then go and try it themselves so that they can feel special. Hackers look down on these people just as legitimate gamers look down on cheaters.
I have talked, almost daily, in CP with so many young people who do not have money to spend in Home because either their parents did not understand what they would need in Home, or (and I can sympathize with this), the parent did not have time to take them to the Mall to buy a keyboard, or because the parents simply could not afford any more expenditures at the time.
I am definitely NOT blaming ‘the kids’ for everything. Not at all. If anything, I understand their plight and wish there was some way to help them. That is why I keep asking for a Sony Gift Store where I could at least buy them a non-default, non-freebie shirt.
lol, honest to god, why would anybody cheat and/or hack for THAT? It’s god awful looking and tacky. To be perfectly honest, I couldn’t care less if people want to cheat or hack for any item on Home or outside of Home for trophies. Personally, I get tired of just about everything I own after wearing it for 10 minutes, so I put no effort into any of that.
As for cheating for leaderboards or trophies, I also couldn’t care less. If I wanna get a trophy or a high round on a video game, I do it because I like it or for the challenge. Somebody else cheating doesn’t cheapen what I’ve done, because I can say to myself that I’ve done ____ legit, whether anybody cares to believe me or not.
Yeah I hear you.IF I were a hacker I think I’d use that skill for something much bigger than jacking items off of Home.
You know what all this whining about “hackers and cheaters” is caused by? Envy. While you struggle and get frustrated trying to get these “rewards” (especially to those up in years), someone like me; young, intelligent, and talented, can run three or four programs on my laptop and get those items in a matter of minutes. It must really grind those rusty gears.lol.
Could I play the games and win the items, yes definitely, if you think i can’t, i promise my gamerscore is higher than yours. BUT, why bother? half of these games on home are so poorly written, coded and presented that you have better luck of finding a stradivarius violin than actually executing the commands properly.
Maybe if these games didn’t suck, and resemble the kind of code work that bubbles the chimp could write, people like me wouldn’t get bored and go the easy way. Lockwood has set a good example for what is possible with home’s outdated engine, and yet sony itself and it’s media partners don’t even try to get on par with it? sad.
And then there’s the things like the WKC armor. did you know that 90% of the people you’ve seen wearing that have NOT earned it? Why make a terrible game with next to impossible trophies? why some of WKC trophies make fat princess look easy.
So in the end, to those who are so angry over people like me who do what we do because we can, i ask you this; If the feeling of achievement is all you need, then why are you bothered by our actions? oh i know, because it’s the STATUS that drives you not the feeling of achievement.
at least be honest about it, we are
and i love my japan home items, and so would you if you had the skill required to get them. so either learn how to use the tech you’ve paid for or stop the sniveling, it only makes us LOL.
Ok you want honesty,personally I couldn’t give a dam about acquiring more items,actually I’d like to get rid of some.I also have no idea what kind of status you think doing well on a Home game bestows on someone but I can tell you that reaching the #1 spot on a game doesn’t magically give you groupies and lackeys.Furthermore I have absolutely no desire to go to the asian Homes or any other,I like the N.A. 1 and stick to that 1.However I do thank you for showing ppl how most hardcore gamers view Home and it’s games,not worth paying for,which is why I’m still confused as to why Sony thinks many hardcore gamers will suddenly flock to Home for their gaming fix.
Well it seems that this article has sparked quite a controversy, as I hoped it would. There are so many aspects to this that it needed to be explored. I am glad to see such passionate responses to the article, it shows that people care about the subject no matter which side of the coin they are on. Thanks for the response everyone.
I see what you’re saying annon, you mean like the business that I’ve built from the ground up thats allowed me to afford the house and car I have, and all the other little luxuries I have in life is just as much an achievement as the guy that robbed the bank to get to the same place?
Sure, I don’t mind. It dosen’t vex me at all that all the hard work and effort I’ve put into my life to get to where I am now, could have been easily obtained by breaking the law in one foul swoop. Or maybe you don’t lke the idea of using the term “law-breaking” too close to criminal eh? How about “circumventing the situation” then, yeah, that’s what you do, right?
Carry on….