Wizards NBA All-Star Admits to Halo 3 Cheating

Cheating is cheating. No, technically it is not hurting anyone but I would have difficulty trusting anyone who passes themself off as being a professional if they clearly cut corners to get ahead of honest people in life as well as other players of a simple video game. I honestly think cheaters can't win by conventional means simply because they are not good, so they resort to cheating. They have poor eye hand coordination, cannot think or react quickly enough, are poor loosers and most are nerdy little boys like I use to beat up in school. So, let the nerdy, lame loosers cheat all they want, they know they suck anyway and can't play the game the way it was meant to be played. I beat 10 to 1, I would own anyone who cheats all the time, if they played against me without cheats enabled.

Ok, so let me get this straight...

Professional athletes are ruining the reputation, and market-appeal of major sporting events due to increased steroid use, and now they are attempting to cheat in online games, AND RATIONALIZING IT ?

Uhh... Dear Mr. Arenas, please go DIAF.

Professional atheletes in America are celebrities......and we all know how they behave, like they own the world,(umm, maybe they do?). I think Mr. Arenas is overjoyed by the attention he recieves, good or bad.

So all he gets from this is a title on a webpage?

Is it cheating if you gain nothing of value?

Yes, it's a game, less QQ more pew pew, and all that jazz.

But look at it this way:

He is a member of an officially sanctioned league, the MLG. Now I don't know anything about the MLG, but if they are to be taken seriously, they should have regulations against their players doing this kind of stuff. Stat whoring is lame, but it doesn't really have any bearing on league play. Still, there should be penalties for stuff like this. As a CAL/CPL admin, I laid down the smack on players when they were not acting professionally in public, we don't need that kind of stigma associated if we want video game tournaments broadcast on anything more than niche websites.

He is also a member of another officially sanctioned league, the NBA. I happen to know quite a bit about the NBA, and there are specific rules about this kind of stuff. Granted, its not the same ballpark, league, or sport, but the very idea is still there. What's keeping him from taking this same attitude to the NBA?

Hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines, that's what. He obviously takes one more serious than the other. With a good enough math student, I think it would be pretty easy to artificially inflate your teams stats to get higher rankings. Ultimately, it has no bearing on who wins the championship, but sportsmanlike conduct is to be expected at all times, IMO.

As a role model, and public figure, he should know better.

VIDEO GAMES ARE SERIOUS BUSINESS!

Slow news day, eh?

What do you expect? He's a child. He bounces a ball and makes millions for doing it. He knew he had nothing to worry about before he was even a young adult. best thing to do to people like this is ignore them, dont put them on the front page of shack (seriously, WTF), and teach him to get attention by doing somthing great, not being a jackass.

Oh well. I'm sure life will go on.

Agent Douche is such a ego maniac cocksucker this doesn't surprise me at all.

He's so obsessed with being the next Michael Jordan, yet he's a classless arrogant moron who couldn't even win the championship scoring 80 pts all the time.

maybe im in the minority (from reading some of these responses) but what is the harm in padding your experience level to get a higher _useless_ rank? its not like its raising his skill levels to insane heights as he would still have to routinely play people that are a lot better than he is. all hes doing is farming gamer points and who exactly does that even impact? the people on his friends list? OH WHATS UP NOW KOBE AND LEBRON I JUST SCORED THE IWBYD SKULL BOW DOWN *facepalm*.


you people that are actually upset by this need to disconnect your xbox and reconnect to reality.

LOLOL.............I know when I have trouble expressing my emotions I feel that Britney Spears is the only person capable of expressing them for me.......LOLOL

It's good to know that the game is exciting enough to where you have to make dummy players and take turns losing to enjoy it.

What's the point of a stats system if you're going to allow people to exploit it like this?

And he's not banned... why?

what a wanker

I wonder if he'd let me suit up in his NBA home opener for the opposite team and block 40 of his shots, score 124 points, and wrap it up with a melee attack at center court?

Does it really matter? This is just like BF2 when people stat pad, you get your stats erased. Why even have stats if people are just gonna pad em? I know the rest of the people like to show off their skill with their rank but does it really matter that much?

I don't know if I consider this cheating.
It's more stats padding.

Never trust a cheating Wizard.

Eh... I could care less.

Just as long as he plays a decent game of b-ball the following day is all fine and dandy to me.

:/

big deal. ever play koreans in starcraft? cheatin ass bastards... lol

MOTHER FUCKER. MOTHER FUCKER.

BOO THIS MAN. BOO HIM.


THE INTENSE ANGER I FEEL CAN ONLY BE DESCRIBED BY LYRICS TO "Email My Heart" by Britney Spears.

Now I wouldn't call him an asshole, but I mean is it really surprising? I'm sure a shit ton of people do this. Do I codone it?? No, but then again I don't really care what rank I am.

haha wow, what a pathetic asshole.

*blink* did i really just read what i think i did?