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"Cheat or Achievement?"

Hey freeola,

I was wondering if it would be a good idea to separate the Xbox 360 cheats into 2 sections (or change 360 cheat conditions) as people tend to post a whole list of achievements in the cheats section, even though they aren't cheats. A lot of what is posted can actually be found through the 360 guide button and it just seems a waste of space publishing them - and money for you as people have won GADs for it.

What I would suggest, is if people do post the achievements, either write a guide on how to obtain ALL of them (i.e. walkthrough) or post it as a cheat explaining how to get it to unlock, rather than the conditions of an unlock.

Sorry if I've confused anyone, but if any of the staffies are 360 fanatics/users, you may understand.

I only ask as when I see a cheat for a game, I'm often a bit put out to find it's ony a list of achievements.

Cheers

hippyman

Thanks guys - well worth the fixing of the submission. May have to get you to submit my next one for me as well as it worked a charm :p Hopefully I've sorted it by using a different text editor :)

Sorry for the late reply - just been celebrating the my birthday weekend - so a perfect time for a GAD win :)

Thanks again freeola

Well done hippyman. Was worth me fixing your submission!




I had nothing to do with him winning!

Todays winner!

Nickname: hippyman
Entry: Walkthrough

Well done Hippyman, I hope this was all your pwn work :)

digi

It's poor really. Thing is, some of these sites have copyrighs over their material. If anyone who comes across it from that site, freeola may have a legal dispute on their hands.

I always make sure all rights on my walkthrough is for freeola and if it appears anywhere else I will make sure somebody knows about it.

It just seems unfair.

This was raised maybe 2 months ago. The general message was they dont have a problem with copying or awarding GADs for such work.

hippyman wrote:
> Thanks Digitrader.
>
> Overall, I think it's up to them. It's just heartbreaking to see
> people put a lot of effort into submissions only for recognition
> really going to the copy & pasters (or similar).

Just ben going through winners list and a few of the walkthroughs have been direct copy and pastes.

If this is what is winning GADs now, I don't think I shall bother creating any individual work. Why work hard to win when somebody copies it from gamespot.

Come on freeola! Sort it out!

Thanks Digitrader.

Overall, I think it's up to them. It's just heartbraking to see people put a lot of effort into submissions only for recognitin really going to the copy & pasters (or similar).

Hi hippyman I have alerted a Staff member - i do not know how long it will take them to reply or if they will reply directly on here or straight to you, but they have now been made aware of this thread.

Digi

Thanks Digi,

I don't mind peope who have done it already, but it's not really research/creative when all they've done is copied it directly from the 360 screen.

What would be more useful is HOW to unlock it (tips/strategies) and compile them together to form a walkthrough - THAT would be more useful, but as it stands, the information that is submitted can simply be found just by pressing my guide button.

How would be the best way to attract the attention of a staffie?

Thats shocking! and they get away with this? I read a "cheat" on the games forum thats not a cheat but just a part of how the game actually runs I was dissapointed, not sure if they won a prize though. Raise it with a Staffie, but if the prize is away then there will be little they can do to reverse it.

Digi