Comment on Do you cheat in games?
Snazz@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The point of games is to have fun, so you should play the game in the way that is most fun for you. Whether that involves cheating or modding the game is up to your own preferences.
Cheating only becomes a problem in competitive contexts because at that point you are being dishonest and ruining the fun for others.
There are some cases where cheating is not okay in singleplayer games and some cases where it is okay in multiplayer games. It all circles back to whether everyone is having a good time.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Its always okay to cheat in single player games
Snazz@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It doesn’t matter if its single player or multiplayer, if you are competing against other people, cheating is not okay.
If you cheat to get a highscore on a leaderboard in a single player game, thats not cool. If you cheat a speedrun in a single player game, you lose all my respect. If you use cheats to beat near impossible challenges in single player games to get clout on social media, that’s despicable.
It’s not always ok to cheat in single player games.
DarkMetatron@feddit.org 4 days ago
I would say that a game stops being singleplayer as soon as a any form of competition with other players is involved, this would make it asynchronous multiplayer in my eyes.
alfert@feddit.dk 3 days ago
No matter the definition of singleplayer or multiplayer games, if you cheat and it affects other non-cheating players that did not consent of you cheating, it’s not okay.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Compete in single player games? Are you referencing speedruns?
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
There are zero victims in cheating in a single player game.
Snazz@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You’re kind of twisting the definition of single player. In a colloquial sense, it’s an adjective that describes whether game modes are played alone or concurrently with others. Not literally related to the number of players that have played the game.
The label exists to give people a sense of what the game is like to play. A game can have both single player and multiplayer modes.