Am I the only one who tries to play as "legit" as possible?

Not suing you, just trying to explain why everyone chose the first option.

"cannot resist", to most people, means frequent and large failures. "I am trying to stick to my diet, but cannot resist chocolate" doesn't apply to me if I ate a dozen m&m's three months ago. It applies to people who eat chocolate whenever it is available, daily at least, ounces at a time.

Perhaps I should've changed "cannot resist" to "could not resist". And not being able to resist something doesn't necessarily mean frequent and large, it could just as easily mean that someone "have hardly ever smoked, but could not resist smoking just 1 cigarette last year, or smoking just one per month". That's what I meant by it when it comes to this. It also sucks imo that only a small amount of characters are allowed for each poll choice (enough for maybe 1.5 sentences). Perhaps I'll have to make a new thread, with a new poll, with multi-selectable options.

I do what I can I don't buy duped gear however basically every single scroll in existing right now is duped unless you brought it straight out of gacha or something. So yea you me and everyone else who has played this game more than a week is not legit at this point.

Preposterous. Why would hackers dupe crappy scrolls no one needs? If you've got common sense enough to distinguish what's obviously duped and what isn't, buying what's not so obviously duped doesn't make you illegit. I've always hated this "everyone's in the same boat whether they realize or not" argument.

I'm somewhat intrigued by this moral decision.

Anyway, while I choose to abstain from voting, I'll tell you my major offenses are my duped VSS (14% All Stats, so there's really no chance of me giving them up, I mean, if they get deleted, it's pretty much whatever, since I knew it would happen eventually), and my use of other duped items (GM scrolls, white scrolls, protection scrolls, confusion fragments, etc), and my frequent use of glitched LHC maps.

Honestly, I don't care much about legitimacy, that isn't to say I go around hacking and ruining everyone else's fun just for my own enjoyment, I do tend to stay away from a lot of the major glitches and exploits and what not, and I have definitely not done any hacking.

However, I'm a bit peeved at how you keep throwing legitimacy around, from what I've seen, at least, because while you say you aren't trying to put yourself on a pedestal, it just seems to be a vehicle for you to look down on other players and persecute them. It's what's reflected by your poll options, while you may wish to change them, the first option is basically Super Ultra Mega Legit, and everything else is pretty much has a rather huge negative slant to it. There might as well only be two options (or three, rather, the first, the middle two as one, and the last one). Hell, even the title of the thread is pretty bad, because you single yourself out and question if there's anyone else like you. I'm not trying to attack you or anything, I'm just pointing out what I see, and I apologize if this offends you.

Personally, my philosophy is, you know you, your morals, feelings, whatever, and ultimately, you know what is right for you, so you shouldn't be so concerned with how others see you. If you know you're playing legitimately, there's no reason to flaunt it, people rarely ever get recognized for just doing what they're supposed to, nor do I see a reason in pointing out the wrongs other people have done. Take pride in that and not in how, comparatively, you're a saint among sinners.

And, though this line has been said to death, it is just a game, and it's definitely not the right battlefield to be waging a war of morals, so just have fun with it.

Nope, not offended. But I disagree in many ways.

"If you know you're playing legitimately, there's no reason to flaunt it" -and what's so wrong with that? Especially with the sad mentality to "get stronger any which way you can" of the community. Why shouldn't we strive to fix this mentality, even if we have adopted it ourselves, regardless of what Nexon does or doesn't do? The buyers of duped items and scrolls are perpetrating this skewed view of the game. Fun is to each their own, but when that fun is bad for the whole, it must be called out as such.

If it's just a game, what about the real money being spent on it? Is that just money? How was it right for that money to lose it's value when everything can be replaced by a godlier sexier duped and/or hacked version of itself, and how is it right to justify taking advantage of that in the name of "fun"? This selfish fun is not fun for everyone else.

I'm peeved that people can equate the legitimacy of conscientiously choosing to stay completely clear of obviously duped items (including scrolls) from the get-go, to the "legitimacy" of choosing not to. One is a detriment to the game and money spent on it, while the other is not. The convenient ignorance of that seems to be evident in so many choosing option one here when they really should be choosing option two. It's simple as that.

"Personally, my philosophy is, you know you, your morals, feelings, whatever, and ultimately, you know what is right for you, so you shouldn't be so concerned with how others see you." -Well said, and true. I must reiterate though, that I made this thread out of curiosity and as a sort of "second opinion" of the views of what's right and wrong, so that I can see what the best kind of stance to take for myself is. These views seem to be too skewed and there's this "it's wrong but OK" attitude. Maybe it's OK because it's common, but that doesn't make it right. I was hoping that people here would take their heads out of their asses and understand all these things, instead of throwing one overused cliched excuse after another.