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by Kahzgul, Thursday, October 15, 2015, 17:06 (3423 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY

I don't consider this "cheating". A glitch, a bug, sure. But it is not the players who are "breaking the game". This isn't like yanking your ethernet cable out of the wall or lag-switching. This is players using a button combination to achieve results that Bungie didn't intend. It should absolutely be fixed, but I don't blame players for using it.

Putting all the blame on the game developer is just silly. Who exactly, but the player, pressed the buttons? I think players absolutely should be held accountable for intentional unsportsmanlike actions. Don't want a ban? Don't do the thing you know is wrong.

The developers allowed this glitch through. The onus is on them to ensure that everything functions as intended. By your logic, Quake players should have been banned for rocket jumping (a developer-confirmed "bug" that players stumbled on to). I'm not saying "it's ok" for players to do it. I'm just saying Bungie let this slip through the cracks and they should fix it ASAP (as I'm sure they will). I don't think players need to be banned over it.

I do think players need to be banned over it.

The quake example is a terrible one because rocket jumping was a thing every player could do and it didn't provide a clear advantage to anyone when it was used (didn't make you invulnerable or do more damage, just let you jump somewhere a little higher). Plus I'm a little sketchy on rocket jumping even being a bug, because rocket jumping was a thing in Marathon which you needed to use to reach certain secret areas, and that came out 2 years before quake.