Ryan and cheating

[zocheret]

I find it really interesting that Ryan ascribes a moral value to cheating in games, or searching for system failures. On 179, she talks about cheats in the Sims and how gamers look for ways to make the system crack, then goes on to insist that in interactive drama, derailing the narrative isn't enjoyable. There's a real value judgment here, a

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Spend Thrift in the Virtual World--Spender in the Real

[ammamc]

I agree that cheating in the virtual world does not have as much weight as it does in the real world, hence why people do it all the time. My little cousins are fanatic game players and they have cheat codes for everything--they want to get to the good, important stuff instead of wasting their time trying to complete missions and playing a level over and over again. Also, certain special button combinations and cheats give the game cool effects, almost as though the creator had put them in there on purpose.

What's funny about video games, however, is how we tend to act differently than we normally would in real life--this is our time to experiment with what our lives possibly could be like without any real-life consequences. But my problem is I do a really good job of saving up money as a farmer in "Animal Crossing" to install a dairy (this is my little sister's game and I got addicted over the summer), and yet, I am not so savvy with my money in real life. I'm not so careful about spending while on the game, I go hungry to save up money. We like pushing ourselves to the limit in games and seeing what we are capable of doing.