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Posted by: erik_kjr12
it is not cheating if it is in the game
Bungie disagrees. Their opinion is greater than yours, because they control the matchmaking system along with the banhammer. They decide what is cheating or not. They have clearly stated that double shotting, quad shotting, BxR, and all the other button combos are cheating. Try to justify cheating any way you want, but don't try to pass it off as fact.
Here is a post by Bungie staff that supports this position:
"Technically," advocating cheating on these boards is a bannable offense - so why don't we pretend you're not trying to use that argument. Rules are "technical" as Recon said, and only work when properly interpreted by individuals charged with enforcing them (that would be us).
Anyway, exploiting a bug equals cheating on Xbox Live. If you're playing in an MLG tournament, they define what is cheating there, and obviously the Xbox Live rules don't apply.
But when you're in our sandbox, you play by our rules, and if you don't like them, well, it sucks to be you. And we don't ban anybody for BXRs or superjumping by the way - they are community served bans. The feedback system is the means by which players are voicing their opinion on this. And guess what, they agree with us.
At least our reasoning is simple and well defined (it can be summed up in one sentence and has been in the Xbox Live Terms of use from day one). You, on the other, have presented no valid defense of exploiting glitches in the game other than by calling "illegitimate." I think you should look up the definition of that word, you can't call a rule "illegitimate" if it comes from the people who own the sandbox (Xbox Live). Ever wonder why backpack reloading was taken out of Halo 2, even though it was a widely used aspect of Halo 1 play? All those who said "because it was a bug" get a cookie. Now, let's take some bets... what happens to people who depend only on glitches to win games when Halo 3 comes out? Anybody have some guesses there?
So... my general response to you is "quiet, you." Maybe you'll actually have to learn how to play without those glitches now. Or just keep to custom games and LANs... where (and this is the best part) this policy has absolutely no effect whatsoever! Since "you don't play matchmaking," why do you even care about this?
[Edited on 06.01.2007 6:52 PM PDT]