Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-94.109.166.200-20190412054717/@comment-38068589-20190415234529

Darrell Holcomb wrote: ME7 wrote: I remember the first couple of years I was playing this game. I was convinced everyone in Group A and Group B we're cheaters and hackers. That is because they were. Well maybe not hackers but a lot were cheaters.

Maybe not in the traditional sense. But almost everyone in Group A and B back then were borrowing upgrades. So in my mind it was cheating. I made the mistake once of commenting here that I had reported a few. :(

Mistake, I got jumped on like a pack of wolves. It was widely accepted here on the wiki that borrowing upgrades was not cheating and acceptable.

I also think that getting updates with questionable methods like GC exploits is not actually cheating, in the real-world ethical sense.

FM/EA can call it whatever they like. But then, I would call their pricing is the biggest cheat of all :)