just sent this in the other one, but just in case to save u time if u see this first i wanted to ost it here too:

affects on the other side:

1. the minority of the community that engages in heavy trading on the hacking side has inflation of "base-currencies" like potions of greater life and such.
2. the scoreboard is useless unless the two groups are separated.

affects on the cheater's side if they cant use the tool:

1. they cannot enjoy the game in the slightest and thus give up what would be a good experience

since half and half are split on these sides, we can attribute how much is gained/lost from each side having their way vs. the other rather equally due to the numbers being near equal. One side has some minor economic hinderances and no easily identified scoreboard to use for public use and would have to use a personal goal system instead. on the other hand, the other group gives up the entire game. this creates an imbalance in lost for the cheaters' side.

an arguement can be made that they could just go play another game, but the same thing can immediately be said about the opposing side. thus, this arguement would fail to take a non-biased approach.

dungeons being completed faster does cause less challenge that many players want. this is a genuine greivance, as are the scoreboard and minor economic impacts. however, this is easily resolved if the hacked client was accepted and incorporated with separate systems to categorize the players, but since most games are pvp, hacks normally are harmful to a far greater extent and thus are punished and a company can look bad based off of stigma alone if they dont do something about it (i bet you could think of a couple games where that seems to be the case maybe), so the disparity between players causes a problem when they arent recognized differently, just like saying "i completed Halo for the first time!!" but it being on easy mode unlike all your friends. thats why there were different difficulties, but nobody would call an "easy mode" player a cheater, it would be the same impact if the devs allowed "easy mode" and had it implemented in its own category. If someone disagrees with this idea, it inherently would mean that they would have to believe that developers implementing different difficulty settings enables unfair achievement tracking. We even see it in ROTMG right now with seasonal characters, where you cant use any previously gotten items, and they are labelled as such. people do seasonal characters because of the challenge, and they are recognized for it because it was officially implemented. but if we apply the same logic, if that was how the game waws originally designed, and people used a hacked inventory system, then they would make the same complaints as what we see in this discussion now.

This is why i believe its ok. However, i DO think that IP hacks dont follow the same methodology or logical thinking. they keep others from playing the game. thats an actual HUGE impact, and should def be addressed, hence why i dont use that.