What the devil happened to cheat devices?

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anc[is]My personal theory is that Microsoft got their panties in a twist because it might mess up their precious achievements. The more likely answer is that games got too complex or companies wanted to protect their multiplayer.

It's actually the opposite. Those cheat devices (cheats in general) were there to help in the debugging. For a time, we got sophisticated enough to have elegant coding to obsolete their usage. Then mass-broadband came. Now we're back to square one, but cheat devices are still obsolete because you can just release a patch.

 

[Evil Smurf]

Probably already been stated but, Achievements, Trophies, and stuff like that. I love games that still have cheat codes so I can just rage on everything. Sadly we are at that day and age where those kinds of things are looked down upon as lack of skill or such things like it. I was called a noob for using cheats on GTA awhile ago. Why can't I just enjoy my games any ways I want to?

yeah, turning on the cheats in TF2 and playing with bots is so much fun!

 

[DaWaffledude]

Achievements happened.