Originally Posted by Hamma
I agree with you. This is disheartening for someone like me who has lived and breathed PlanetSide 2 ever since I first heard of it's existence. Years of hard work and hours spent on the game. Anticipation building for beta and then boom - someone downloads the client and starts ripping shit taking away the great experiences someone could have had opening the game for the first time.
I already had these experiences and I'm disappointed that someone else won't get them because they decided to look at ripped content.
If there is one thing I feel comfort in about all this it's the fact it did not originate from this community.
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Folks who don't want to see the stuff until beta (or later) don't actually have to read the threads / reddit posts / etc revealing stuff (and jumping to conclusions, apparently, in some cases). I haven't downloaded the music, or looked at any of it, except for looking at and posting in the one thread I just posted in a few minutes ago because apparently people think Jumping To Conclusions Is Fun For the Whole Family!
I can understand what you're saying from a forum moderator perspective, such as yourself, as you have to know what people are posting on your forums in order to enforce your rules, but the rest of us plebians don't have that responsibility here (or on reddit, which I usually ignore) and are free to just avoid all the spoilers, and honestly, I prefer not having to read everything, spoilers included. I've seen it from the other side, and it's less than enjoyable.
Side note: Modifying the ini file in question (and figuring out the appropriate values to put into it) to make the SoE launchpad application download the PS2 client instead of DCUO is something that I would consider on the same scale of difficulty as SQL injection, which comprises much of the "hacking" that you hear about in the news. So while at first I would have said "Editing an ini file? Not hacking, lol" - after thinking a moment, it clearly can be.