Hard Mode {Found It}

[AreeyaJaidee]

With all due respect Kaeko, I disagree with your assertion that doing things legitimately is worthless and/or largely negated by the fact that nothing in this game "truly requires anything beyond 2, maybe 3 players" by virtue of the exploits you have so usefully assisted in bringing to light.

You have, I submit, incorrectly substituted the fact that you can currently cheat the system in order to succeed due to SE's many failings in the game mechanics department as the true "mark of accomplishment" with killing these various things traditionally. By traditionally I mean with a party without intentional use of exploits.

I fully agree with you on your points (2), (4) and (5) insofar as those exploits engage themselves passively whether you seek them out or not in every encounter you enter into and so diminish all our achievements universally. In other words, their universality levels the playing field and so makes their detrimental effect on the difficulty of any given achievement moot (because everybody who posts a video glorifying themselves is passively suffering from (2), (4) and also sometimes (5)). I should say this in no way diminishes their damaging effect on the game and their being fixed should still be high priority for SE. I share your hope of these mechanics being altered for the better.

Anyhow, I agree there are exploits that engage themselves without conscious action by players but saying "Look, I did this solo because I specifically targeted the failings in the game and exploited them to succeed, and therefore those who did not specifically target the failings to succeed and simply did it "as intended" or as close to that as possible haven't achieved anything" is somewhat skewed. For me that is akin to saying "You earned your money by working all day, I earned it by defrauding my insurance company without much effort, therefore people who work for their money haven't achieved anything". Yes that analogy is a stretch but it's the closest one I could think of.

Anyhow that's all.

P.S. Keiko keep up the good work bug testing their game for them. They need it.

P.P.S. Good on you OP for going out there with other people and trying new things.

Very well said Nixon. There will always be the age old predicament of a human being disregarding something as a valid concern because when said subject is brought to light it reveals their embarrassment in having avoided the more central issue: They are wrong in their actions.

This goes beyond MMOs and socially unacceptable internet pariahs.

I know it is also the rationale of the official forum's majority that if X person exudes pride in Y accomplishments, the Z players has to interceded and make a degrading remark in hopes of ascertaining some sort of "justice" to defend Z players own shortcomings. In short a epeen measuring contest ensues fought via the plethora of misinformation and skewed truths between the two parties when all the OP desired was some simple confirmation that his existence is in fact substantial to the community OR anyone at all.

Hard mode will always suffer the above mentioned plights. /sarcasm EVERYONE is individually ALWAYS better than the chap to his left or right.

I think the majority of us need to take a lesson and put aside these petty insults to each others inner humanity and focus on goal oriented positivity.

That being said: Hard Mode is a unique sentient being which requires more maturity when approached than most topics. Please don't degrade each other like some of the little school children in these forums that get so trolololol happy they can't keep themselves from spamming their ignorance like a disease for which their is no cure.

HARD MODE ENGAGE!