Originally Posted by
swirl1297
Personally I think people who use a glitch and people who use a mod or hack are light years different.
A glitch is something you shouldn't exploit but ultimately it's akin to speeding. You know better and you know if you get caught there is a penalty, but a relatively minor one. Not only that but any game dev worth a crap will fix the glitch usually within a week. Oh, and you CoD kids who are playing a MMO for the first time may not realize this, but, EVERY MMO has these early growing pains! A glitch didn't ruin the game any more than your crying on the forums ruined the forum.
But...
Using a mod program or hack is out right cheating. You went out of your way to intentionally break a game and as a result the punishment for this should FAR exceed someone who shot through a wall. I have absolutely zero problem permabanning a person who installed a program that allows them to break the rules of the game. Not a 3 day ban, a permaban for the first offense.
Yes, both glitching and "hacking" are bad but no, they are not the same and the same punishment can not apply to both.