Oleg and Team.

[Feuerfalke]

Originally Posted by LEXX

Feuerfalke::
The flip side is that many anonymous public server players, after advertising that social interaction is the prime mover of Online play, refuse to admit that Online cheating is a social behavior that can only be consistently avoided through social awareness. When you play with society, you take risks, risks that some here don't want to talk about, so they blame the mods, or the modders and happy mod users, but never blame the cheaters since they can't find them. Somebody has to take the blame.

And I think that is the problem here. Nobody blames the modders of anything except their behavior towards Oleg and his team, which has become very obvious several times in this thread and for cracking a protected game and making this crack officially available. That is against the law, that is unfair and it is wrong.

But you have to admit (and already did) that cheating is a problem and that we wouldn't have that problem, if this whole thing hadn't become much larger than most expected.
And when I speak of online-cheating, I do not talking about the "3 or 4" bohoo-hidden top secret servers for pay-for-play registered members only. We're talking about these "100" baddy worn-out-ugly-dirty servers on Hyperlobby, ASE and UBI. You cannot control who's joining and you cannot know everybody online, as well as you cannot really ban them effectively. So, this whole social control thing simply doesn't apply. The same way you cannot check everybodies pockets going down your street.
And the problem is not, that I'm feeling cheated everyday, but because it's in the minds of people you play with.