Having a clear advantage over anyone else ONLY through the use of some form of exploit, is by definition, cheating. Regardless of how "easy" it is to do.
Major game companies have perma-banned people for far less over the last two decades.
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So in 1996, they had perma-bans? I knew I shouldn't have gotten Missingno
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There were online communities even then.
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Now thinking about it, the Mew glitch wasn't too smart either lol.
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What are you talking about? It was a wonderful glitch ... until your save game had a seizure.