Quote Originally Posted by realistic1 View Post
[SIZE=2] I think that many of the rules are fairly subjective (advantage always goes to ES) and I believe I could make a pretty good argument that creating two teams that agree to trade win/losses for quick profit would violate the following rule:
While I agree with your philosophy, there isn't any official word that matching with people to trade wins/losses is "not intended."

I'm completely on the same side-- that this is an obvious abuse of the system. But honestly that's just our opinions.

Abusing the Random Matching System:

- People currently bypass the random matching system to play duty roulette with their friends.
- People currently abuse the commendation system by doing the same thing to match with friends in Guildhests, and then give each other quick commendations.

^ No one is currently being punished for participating in either exploit.

Where do you draw the line for manipulating the duty finder? One could argue that there's currently no other way to play against your friends in PvP outside of exploiting the system.


Ultimately I agree that boosting for experience is lame, and wouldn't do it myself. But at the same time it feels more like "videogame morals" than actual cheating. Especially because it's hard to prove outside of the chat log.

Someone could get 4 friends that aren't as good to play against them repeatedly-- and gain the same benefit. If their friends aren't intentionally throwing the match, is it boosting? I mean, something doesn't feel right about that either...

Without an official response from SE on what they feel is intended, you can't really make a definite argument either way.