You're wrong (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Thursday, October 15, 2015, 16:55 (3593 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY

It is actually exactly like doing anything that causes the game to behave in a way other than intended in order to give you an advantage. That's called cheating. It doesn't matter if the game is a buggy mess, if you exploit that bug, that's cheating. Getting outside the map to snipe people through walls where they can't see you? Cheating. Untethering your damage dealing avatar from your damage receiving avatar? Cheating. Infinite Hammers? Cheating. Infinite Shadow Shots? Cheating. Lag-switching? Cheating. It's all cheating.

You appear to be drawing a distinction from a guy who actually got a piece of hardware installed in order to cheat vs. a guy who is able to cheat without needing hardware. That's a false distinction. The lag switch is a hardware device which takes advantage of a lapse in code fidelity by allowing you to disable upstream packets while still registering kills and receiving downstream packets. A truly robust PvP code that wasn't exploitable would prevent this behavior. But because it's not prevented in Destiny, it's technically a bug that's being exploited, just like the refilling of the super bar for Quiver Shadow Shot by going to the inventory menu - that, too, is a bug that's being exploited.

Using exploits of any kind for personal gain is... wait for it... cheating.