I've made a lot of friends through video games, had real enjoyment, and felt as much accomplishment by figureibg out and perfecting a raid encounter as I have almost anything else. You say that a game shouldn't be lumped in with real life when you're a real person sitting in reality as much as you would be a card game, an office, or any thing else. You're also dealing with real people on the player and developement side (which this is a more serious matter for). On a side not I've just always been under the idea that cheating was wrong no matter what capacity you perform it in. Work, games, love, or anything really. Cheating in a game consistently is counter productive. Sure you're getting cool gear, but why? You don't even use the gear because you don't need it to And before you start casting blame on Bungie for not considering that someone would disconnect their console to cripple a boss I don't think anyone would have been prepared for that. I think people make games under the assumption that players will want to play the game. Sadly they are mistaken about a chunk of the player base who, not only tries harder to find cheats than solving the actual mechanics, defends their desire to cheat as a right. If you were to spend your time discovering how to cheesecake raid boss or doupe items in another game of this type and were caught. I can almost guarantee the devs would do something about it. So, what makes Destiny different? accomplish your goals using cheats. In a pve sense it has a lot to do with principle. You don't cheat, period. It muddled the community and the image of any game your playing. Now that doesn't directly affect you but it does affect some of those in the community, the developers, and whoever else was involved to one degree or another. I can see how you wouldn't care about that, how you could justify that it's not your problem, but why would you? What you do affects, not only, others in a myriad of ways, but how the game might progress from this point forward. Bungle isn't only having to design content for players but they have to safe guard it against the players as well now as they want the game to be played fairly. Lastly, you purchased a liscenes, not the rights to the product. It's at Bungie's descretion how the game is run, to determine what is allowed and what isn't. Exploits, glitches, and the like have been cheating since the dawn of gaming. Time hasn't't changed that. Cheating has always been a punishable act. Time has not changed that either...nor should it.