Cheesing is very popular among the Destiny community. In fact, it's popular in every game but the term "cheesing" has gained it's infamy in our community. I've cheesed before, but I never supported it and it never ceases to amaze me that the people that do so don't get reprimanded or better yet, suspended or better yet for severe offences or frequent offenders: BANNED! My criticisms of cheesing began during the era of "disconnecting Crota." This was something I thought people should be banned for due to the prominence of literally pulling out your Ethernet cord to glitch a boss, but alas, the devs were too soft. Now before you tell me that I'm insane, let me enlighten you with some events in which this happened in another game. In WOW: Wrath of the Lich King, the world's first team to beat the raid glitched the boss by intentionally avoiding one of the mechanics. The team was subsequently stripped of their gear and raid completion. That kind of consequence for not playing legit I believe should be used in Destiny. Although many of these have been patched, let's say hypothetically that they weren't. Let's look at possible punishments. :
1. Mild case (Cheesing Templar, Atheon or bridge, heavy glitch): A warning followed by a week long ban for frequent offenders
2. Moderate case (Lag switching Crota): 3 week long ban followed by lifetime ban for frequent offenders.
3. Severe cases (Hunter glitch, Heavy glitch in PvP) are usually dealt with.
So I think I've made my point. I'm certainly open to listening to different opinions or suggestions. If you agree, let's bump it for Bungie! Good hunting Guardians!
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I agree to a certain point. Firstly let me say that I firmly believe there is a difference between cheating and cheesing. I personally would lump the crota Ethernet glitch into the straight up cheating category and I wouldn't have minded of players who did that were stripped of they're completion and gear. That being said I feel like the templar cheese and the bridge cheese are not cheating here's why. Ultimately it's game mechanics that allow you to do it. Guy with sword jumps across the bridge uses sword and swing to assist with this task along with a high jump. All of which is technically allowed through combining game mechanics. Now that's not to say I don't want to do the bridge legit (to this day still have never done it but would love to just can't find a team who does it that way). Again with templar cheese we were using aoe grenades to move him. It makes sense that he would back up from an aoe attack and again this is allowed through the use of game mechanics. As a result I don't feel these offenses afoul be punishable. In fact I think that by the shear creativity of these solutions that rewards are just. Yes technically you're not completing it in the manner intended by the devs but you're in my opinion also not cheating since your using abilities that are in the game.