How I Defeated an MMO Game Hack Author

> I don't understand why some people feel the need to cheat in a game; I also think that cheating gets boring fast, and likely most people just move on. The whole point of a game, especially one based more on skill than luck, is the challenge; if you remove that, the fun rapidly vanishes.

My friends would bring their computers to my house and we'd hack/cheat online games not because we were interested in the games, but because we were interested in the social experience of what we were doing. We weren't focused on the game; instead, we were focused on teasing & laughing with & at each other.

I like cheating because I like winning and I like easy games. I played Elden Ring and I would never have enjoyed it at the default difficulty, so I gave myself tons of health and power, and I loved the game with the bosses taking half an hour or so, rather than days, to defeat.

Isn't that primarily a single player game?

Cheating in those is fine. In fact, I think single player games should have cheats built in.

I got stuck on The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword because I just couldn't quite get the timing right to pull off some move needed to get past on of the bosses. I would have been able to do it when I was younger but apparently slowed down a little when I got older. I tried many times then gave up and never finished the game.

It would have been great to have a way to tell the game that I just cannot get past that point and have it then provide some other way to continue the game. Maybe nerf that boss so I could kill them. Maybe reveal a quest that will get me something equivalent to whatever I'm supposed to get for killing the boss.

It's competitive multiplayer games where cheating can be questionable.