Cheating is one of those sensitive topics that may never really be agreed upon, but every site has to have some set of guidelines to follow, and these are ours:
Considered Cheating
Not Considered Cheating
As you can see, there is VERY little we flag for cheating. You really have to go out of your way to be flagged as a cheater on this site! Check back often as these rules will likely evolve over time. Happy fair gaming everyone!
Considered Cheating
- Using save game data other than your own.
- We realize that sometimes it's necessary to restore some data using your own save files and obviously this is ok.
- We also understand that save game data sharing is allowed cross-platform between the PS3 and the PSVita. Although we are not fans of this, we can't consider it cheating since it's officially supported by SONY.
- Downloading save game data from the internet or even from friends to use on your system is NOT OK!
- Modifying save game data with a hex editor or other tool.
- Using any hacking tools (which we won't name here since we don't wish to advertise them)!!!
Not Considered Cheating
- Shared accounts.
- A group of people earning trophies using one PSN ID is not considered cheating on this site. There is really no good way to prove this and as long as the trophies are earned properly it's ok with us.
- In-game glitches.
- There are many glitches in games that cause trophies to pop up when they shouldn't. Buzz Quiz TV is a great example of this. The problem with considering this to be cheating is that many/most of these glitches can happen completely by accident so it wouldn't be fair to flag someone for them. In-game glitches are the fault of the developers and that's where we leave it.
- Manipulating the system clock.
- For those trophies that require you to play a game for n hours, people often will simply change the system clock to get the trophy faster. Although we'd prefer to see the trophies earned legitimately, this does not greatly affect the outcome of any trophies. The trophy is simply earned a bit sooner than it would be otherwise. For this reason, we don't consider this cheating.
- Invalid Time Syncs.
- I'm sure many of you have seen invalid time sync listed for various earned trophies. It would be great if we could use this as an indicator for cheating, but we can't. We have many proven cases of legitimately earned trophies where the timestamps was 00:00:00 for no apparent reason. For this reason, we can not consider this a sign of cheating. Although many times it IS an indicator of cheating, it can also be a common SONY glitch.
NOTE: A few invalid timestamps is not considered cheating, but many invalid timestamps may be!
If you have shared save data for the few older games that don't prevent it, we have a bit of a forgiveness policy. You're forgiven for 2 games before we flag you. We know people experimented in the past with games like SOCOM and FUEL, and we don't want to alienate the entire community for this. However... if you are caught using ANY hacking software, you will be flagged immediately even for just one game!!!As you can see, there is VERY little we flag for cheating. You really have to go out of your way to be flagged as a cheater on this site! Check back often as these rules will likely evolve over time. Happy fair gaming everyone!
