Is online cheating such a bad thing?

[QUOTE="NICKKELANIUS"][QUOTE="Sonwhy"]I bring this up because I know and have played with some online cheaters out there and usually I don't consider it to be so bad. What I do consider to be a bad thing is when you can't host your own games and the competition comes out to be way too unfair for your team when you are playing fair. In other words when lots of people cheat while playing an online game I don't consider it to be necessarily the players/cheaters fault but rather the company that designed the game to begin with. Especially when you can't even pick and choose the games that you would or would not want to play in let alone have a fair match making system. Which I think to a certain degree a fair match making system would include how many people in your party can join a game with you and making the teams equal based on kill death ratio first then followed mission points after that. I think that some people get online purely for fun just as myself and when I get online I don't like playing against a group of 4 or 5 plus people that play all the time together even if there are 15 or 16 other people playing in the same game. Maybe I just want to play against people that play be themselves or people that play with one other person. Also, maybe I don't like it when certain parts of the map get stuck for my team. In other words maybe its not the cheaters fault in the first place for cheating when they want to be able to enjoy their game more when they play online which I think is understandable to a certain degree. If you get online and your constantly being dominated by another team or you can't even move around the map as much as you would like then its unfair to a certain degree to the other team thus providing cheating as a motive in this case to make things more even hell you can even end the game and start from scratch seeing as the teams are unfair as it is In other words if the online cheating is such a big deal than online matchmaking should be made with much more in depth detail than what currently exist for games such as cod4 and should no longer be treated as a mere add on to a game.Sonwhy

Look I just join random games online most of the time but whenever I start seeing other members of my team on top buildings they shouldn't be on hell I just go with it and try to further dominate because the game for one isn't made that well in matchmaking and there has been tons of games where I've been dominated one game after the next and it blows.

Its not so much losing that bothers me but when I can't get any kills hardly or move very far along the map to get in position to make more kills thats what bothers me.

Basically what I'm getting at is that if I can't even pick and choose the game I want to enter than whos really doing the cheating? If all the games that I'm entering are constantly having enemy choppers and 4 or 5 enemy back to back air strikes ..... **** it

When your being thrown in a game without your consent that normally nobody would join how is that possibly fair?

Not beingat least decent inCOD 4 is the equivalent of going to the end of a bowling lane, throwing the ball, and not hitting a single pin :lol:

Basically what I'm getting at is that if I can't even pick and choose the game I want to enter than whos really doing the cheating? Sonwhy

It's a very bad thing.

Also, it really shows that the person sucks at games. If he didn't, he wouldn't need to cheat.

Wrong what I'm saying is that if in each lobby you go into and your on a team that is being competely dominated by another team and thats all you come across for awhile than how is it really that fair to the player that is being fair?Sonwhy

Honest people trying to enjoy the game are having that enjoyment ruined by people like you who cheat, how is that fair? No one forces you to play COD4, it's an opt in experience with stated rules, if you can't play by those rules, that is a choice entirely on your end. No one forces you into it, because no one forced you to play the game. Exercise some basic adult self control, and just play something else. You're trying to rationalize cheating because you suck at a game, and despite all the posts that have passed since then, this thread is still a failure. As a poster, you are a failure. Likewise, as a COD4 player, and indeed a gamer as a whole, you air, are a failure.

offline cheating doesn't really matter, but online cheating is badfunsohng

pretty much hit the nail on the head.

when it affects others, it's bad. besides why take the chance of having your account banned?

I love the matchmaking system when I got to play basketball. Usually I get there and there is already some over powered team on 5 friends on the court that have been dominating for an hour or so and have been on the court for like 4 games while everyone else just waits there turn to get on to recieve a savage "And 1" beating. Thing is thats the way things are when you go. You don't get shoooting percentages, rebound stats, ect. You play to the best of your ability and if you win you play again and if you lose you sit until its your turn. I swear cheating because you can't win or you believe its unfair because others are better. Imo you should be banned from playing online as it does violate the terms of use of altering the game play.