Loophole Abuse/Video Games: Difference between revisions

* A shortcoming in the engine that supported ''[[Defense of the Ancients]]'' allowed players to kill their own mobs. So what this encouraged was someone to stay behind and kill every single one of "Their" mobs so the enemies couldn't get experience at all, and thus the "Deny" mechanic was born.

** The sequel by Valve added a pause feature so people don't have to have a [[Bladder of Steel]] (or in case something happens that makes their game client crash.) don't cost their team the game. In order to prevent people from using this as an excuse to pause the game and plan ganks or other elaborate plans, any person can force-unpause the game. However, this appears to have encouraged the perverse [[Double Standard]] that whenever the afk player is on ''their'' team, the other team will wait for them...and whenever they're on ''your'' team, you can practically hear the other team saying, "[[Aint No Rule]] saying we can't constantly force-unpause the game and get further ahead while they're gone,"

* ''[[League of Legends]]'' often gives deals to get champion skins for free. However, if you do not have the champion in question, you can still get the champion ''and'' the skin for free.

* Related, PC gamer magazine often runs a code to receive a freebie for a game in its magazine, such as a free pet in ''[[Guild Wars]]'' or a free champion (and a skin) in ''[[League of Legends]]''. There's always at least one person who goes onto their forums and asks them for a new code because theirs didn't work - [[Aint No Rule]] saying people can't just go into a magazine store, take a copy of the magazine, snap a picture with their phone or write it down, and then enter it into the game without having to pay a cent for the magazine.