GreenBean-HH-
06-13-2008, 03:55 PM
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You've seen this before: "We have Cheat Codes" advertised only many legitimate sites who are actually only promoting 'cheats' for single player mode.
The problem with saying 'Cheat' is that, especially young people, many assume that using cheats is okay, even though it's just for the single player game and, when they get to multiplayer they ask themselves, "why can't I use cheats with multiplayer too? " "After all, now I not only know how to use them but I know what they can do, and, they help me." Sounds innocent enough to me.
What a way to start out selling a game, sites jumping in with exclamations in order to draw in more users, to drive up traffic, to gain more revenue with advertising, offering the use of 'cheats' which essentially becomes: Class 101, An Introduction Into Online Cheating. Because once one starts searching for 'Cheats' for single player, one runs into multiplayer cheat sites... it's not that big of a leap if one can consider it a leap at all!
As I see it, using the term 'Cheat' for single player games is embedding the notion that using the 'Cheat', even in multiplayer games, is okay and acceptable.
Unfortunately for us AC services, the term CHEAT sounds exciting and catchy, i.e., helps generate revenue. So what can be done about the term Cheat, if anything, when it really is just a form of recon for the individual during single player mode? Well, someone could think of another catchy term that captures the spirit of having this ability in single player mode.
This would be hard, but certainly worth a try. If a new term was adopted by Game Manufacturers, it could easily set a new trend.
Here's a few ideas instead of Cheat Codes: SP = Single Player
SPRecon
SP Power Recon
SPPwrRecon
SP Strategic Advantage
Anyone else?
Do you agree it's a problem?
Do you feel it's use in an innocent single player mode engrains the term into our cultural thinking as okay?
Perhaps game manufacturers should stop creating cheat codes for single player altogether? I mean, do they really think offering cheat codes will get more people to buy their game?... "oh, did you see that new game, it offers cheat codes for single player, I'm going to buy that one"... I mean, give me a break.
Here's a quote taken from where I got the above banner:
"Stumped? Then you may need some help, thanks to the cheat codes that are commonly placed in most video games."
Yeah, the more I think about it, this problem is fundamentally emanating from the game manufacturers themselves. The only solution there is to convince the makers, themselves caught up in the excitement of their own product and ask, perhaps plead, with them to change their attitude. Yikes, that is definitely a tough one to achieve.
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This is a forum for ideas, do you agree... .then post it. Do you disagree, then post that. Get Involved!
You've seen this before: "We have Cheat Codes" advertised only many legitimate sites who are actually only promoting 'cheats' for single player mode.
The problem with saying 'Cheat' is that, especially young people, many assume that using cheats is okay, even though it's just for the single player game and, when they get to multiplayer they ask themselves, "why can't I use cheats with multiplayer too? " "After all, now I not only know how to use them but I know what they can do, and, they help me." Sounds innocent enough to me.
What a way to start out selling a game, sites jumping in with exclamations in order to draw in more users, to drive up traffic, to gain more revenue with advertising, offering the use of 'cheats' which essentially becomes: Class 101, An Introduction Into Online Cheating. Because once one starts searching for 'Cheats' for single player, one runs into multiplayer cheat sites... it's not that big of a leap if one can consider it a leap at all!
As I see it, using the term 'Cheat' for single player games is embedding the notion that using the 'Cheat', even in multiplayer games, is okay and acceptable.
Unfortunately for us AC services, the term CHEAT sounds exciting and catchy, i.e., helps generate revenue. So what can be done about the term Cheat, if anything, when it really is just a form of recon for the individual during single player mode? Well, someone could think of another catchy term that captures the spirit of having this ability in single player mode.
This would be hard, but certainly worth a try. If a new term was adopted by Game Manufacturers, it could easily set a new trend.
Here's a few ideas instead of Cheat Codes: SP = Single Player
SPRecon
SP Power Recon
SPPwrRecon
SP Strategic Advantage
Anyone else?
Do you agree it's a problem?
Do you feel it's use in an innocent single player mode engrains the term into our cultural thinking as okay?
Perhaps game manufacturers should stop creating cheat codes for single player altogether? I mean, do they really think offering cheat codes will get more people to buy their game?... "oh, did you see that new game, it offers cheat codes for single player, I'm going to buy that one"... I mean, give me a break.
Here's a quote taken from where I got the above banner:
"Stumped? Then you may need some help, thanks to the cheat codes that are commonly placed in most video games."
Yeah, the more I think about it, this problem is fundamentally emanating from the game manufacturers themselves. The only solution there is to convince the makers, themselves caught up in the excitement of their own product and ask, perhaps plead, with them to change their attitude. Yikes, that is definitely a tough one to achieve.
_________________________________________________
This is a forum for ideas, do you agree... .then post it. Do you disagree, then post that. Get Involved!