Why does this game still cater to exploiters and cheaters?

[fusional]

What is this thread trying to achieve?

if nothing else, it shows us who in the community has principles and who doesn't

Oh dont get me wrong. I didnt like the exploit, i was happy they are fixing it.

But i still stands with my sentiment, nobody got hurt for exploiting it. Its not like the game suddenly fails bc everyone has garuda weapon, nothing changes at all. Nothing.

It only hurts few people's feeling that thinks they are better than everyone else just because they takes pride in their legit kill.

you didn't like it, but you took advantage of it? especially after your LS made a point the first couple days to mention how YOU GUYS didn't use any BLMs? loooooooooool?

while you may argue the exploit 'doesn't hurt anyone' specifically, that's actually false on two accounts.

first- it hurts the people exploiting, as if they aren't good enough to beat it normally, they likely NEED to exploit to win, and will often wait to even TRY new content until some new easy exploit is found (again- compare moogle to garuda. i can't prove this but i'd say it's patently obvious that MOST of the people exploiting garuda also exploited moogle before it, and will most certainly use any other exploit that surfaces in the future)

second, it hurts the entire community by undermining any sense of fairness and fun in competition. with everything being instanced so far, it already detracts from the competition quite a lot by making direct competition negligible. so the only competition we have now is in who does it first, fastest, best, etc. the wow community made their own raid progress/achievement tracking threads, cheating was enforced, the playing field was leveled and the community thrived. and still thrives.

exploiting destroys any semblance of what little competition we already had in this game. if we follow your 'hurts nobody' (wrong) logic to its inevitable conclusion, suddenly no one cares about anything anymore and your community is full of lazy, lethargic goons who expect everything handed to them the second it's added to the game, just so they can log in and look at themselves... because they can't be bothered to actually clear the content themselves.

because that takes work. and fuck work, right? it doesn't hurt anyone if i don't want to work for anything, right?

i guess if you play this game as a big pretty chatroom, exploiting doesn't hurt anything. but otherwise, it absolutely does.

and if you're going to throw around claims like "people are just mad because blah blah" it's just as easy for me to say you only defend exploiting because not only did you partake in it (can't deny it, was all over your livestream), but you did so because you're mad you couldn't kill it legit for days.

tl;dr be reasonable. but if you want to make little trollish comments, keep in mind that can just as easily be turned against you.