Microsoft Brands Xbox Live Cheaters, Strips Scores

Sorry going to repost this, because I think this is an important xbox live issue.

Honestly the whole thing is pathetic.

Gamerscore is a dumb idea period. I know there are people that love achievements, but putting a score on it was a terrible idea. It just puts another carrot on the stick that is online rep, and its fruitless.

There are TONS of these people out there and there is no way MS is going to catch the majority of them.

However, let me ask you for a second, why does it matter? We used to all have cheat codes in games, or use our friend's game saves. That used to be cool right? You just want to mess around in a game, or you just wanted to see the end of a game you weren't interested in playing your way through.

So when did that become uncool? When there was a chance someone might get a higher meta score then you in metric for supposedly "How good are you at gaming?".

I can say that personally I have used a few xbox 360 game saves, but its not because of the gamer points. I wanted to avoid many hours of boring gaming to just fuck around in a couple of games. I could give a shit less if MS considers this cheating on some grand scheme, and honestly if MS were to ever reset my score I wouldn't care.

However, if they were to then label my account as a cheater, as if I did something horribly wrong.... yeah that would bother me. I mean I paid for the system and games. If I used a game save in some new PC game should that make me feel bad. Lets say I wasn't finding Crysis all that fun and I wanted to skip to the final fight, should I not be allowed to do that? Should I be publicly shamed for that?

The other side of this story... the gamer score whores... yeah well they will always exist.

So can I get a job since I scooped this 4 hours early? ;)

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Can't see a problem with this, especially when you consider how trivial achievements are in the first place.

What specifically qualifies as cheating? I used cheats in Saints Row a couple times to help unlock various things, but the game disables achievements on its own when you do so. I hardly think that will count. So would using copied save game files count? I understand that save game files are somehow tied to accounts in a way that would allow for detection of copied files, but would that be cheating?