Selfish whining about online code policy

[Skitscape]

Guys I have been lurking wiird for a little bit now, and I'm mostly interested in the codes for Monster Hunter Tri 3 for Wii. I just have to ask 1 thing, why are people SOOOO ANAL about not using online codes. The only thing I'm interested in is online codes, and apparently you get banned for discussing them. Now please note: I am in no way asking for or requesting online codes, I merely wish to know why online code hacking is so heavily frowned upon in this community.

[dcx2]

http://wiird.l0nk.org/forum/index.php/topic,5664.0.html

That thread explains the feelings of the community about online codes.

To summarize...other people paid good money for their game.  When you cheat online, you ruin their game.  Rampant cheating makes people not want to play online.  For example, The Conduit was a FPS released for the Wii that used a pretty novel control scheme.  However, because of rampant cheating online, nobody really plays it anymore.  Sales tank, because who wants to play a game with rampant cheating?

Also, when you cheat online, the developers of the games will redirect resources away from improving the next game and instead devote those resources to anti-cheating measures.  Everyone loses when the quality of the game is lower because they spent too much time implementing and testing anti-cheating measures.

In fact, Nintendo added anti-cheating measures to the latest Metroid game, which is a single player game.  So, clearly, they're aware of cheaters and trying to stop them instead of, for example, testing and fixing bugs.  Like that Metroid door bug that will ruin your save game.  http://wiird.l0nk.org/forum/index.php/topic,6765.0.html

If they don't redirect resources away from improving the game to stop assholes from cheating, they might just decide to stop offering online servers because it's not worth the hassle.  Everyone loses, then.

Finally...with unban codes, you can launch denial of service attacks against people.  Unban codes also usurp the power of the server administrator, and I despise this.  The server admin owns that server, not you, so you have no right to circumvent the ban.