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argonautweakend posted...

in a game like civ cheating honestly feels wrong.

Cheating in a game is never wrong. Unless it's competitive multiplayer and you're doing something that gives you an unfair advantage over your opponents, it should be entirely up to you how you want to enjoy any given game as a player. Go ahead and abuse that infinite money/XP glitch or cheat code. Save editor your stats to the max and hack and slash your way through the game like an angry indestructible god. If it's fun, more power to you.

Cheating in some games can feel a bit boring after a while, though. But the easy answer there is that you can always just stop cheating. If Civ feels kind of boring when you start with infinite gold and 200 settlers and just explode out across the map and annihilate every other culture you encounter, just dial it back. If you're playing an RPG on ultra-casual mode and feel like the combat would be more fun if it required you to be a bit more tactical, feel free to crank the difficulty up a bit.

I think the only real problem is when you get assholes who want to gatekeep how other people play games. Like the sort of people who act like giving Dark Souls an easy mode would somehow usher in the apocalypse. Or who shit on you for playing games using exploits, glitches, cheats, mods, or other "unacceptable" means.

It's a fucking game. Games are meant to be fun. If you're having fun, you're doing it right. If you're complaining about how other people have fun, you're an asshole. It's pretty simple.