Reply With QuoteI've bought one before, it's nothing particularly special. It's basically a hacked game and you can blow through it in 2 seconds.
I was recently on Ebay looking for some cheap copies of Final Fantasy games, when while scrolling down the list, I notice something odd.
People are selling Memory Cards with Final Fantasy Game Saves on them.
My question(s) are:
Do you buy/sell FF game saves?
Why would you buy them, why not just play the game yourself?
Is using a FF Game Save that someone else made cheating?
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I personally have never bought one before, because I had no idea that people sell them until today. I think it is a form of cheating. It is too similiar to paying someone to do your homework for you (although, I did make a lot of money during high school doing that). I guess if I didn't have TFF to help guide me through completing the difficult parts of games, I might consider it. But only after I exhausted all possible resources; TFF, strategy guides, the internet.
I guess it is a cheaper way to get a memory card, as well. I bought my last 5 cards brand new (over the last 4 years- 2 PS2, 2 PS1, 1 NGC). In total, I spent maybe $35-40 dollars.
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I've bought one before, it's nothing particularly special. It's basically a hacked game and you can blow through it in 2 seconds.
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Admittedly, i have heard of these things before, but i've never bought/used one. I love playing games from the beginning, i can never start halfway through. I must start from the beginning otherwise i just can't get into the story and flow of the game. I get confused and angry and that combo isn't good.
I've also heard of it myself, I've never actually done anything in that sense for I like to have my own file, but I know some of my friends have done it just so they can hack into stuff because they can for fun
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What would be the point? This is the equivalent to the days when game saves were passwords, and people would enter the password to skip to the final level so they could claim they "beat the game".
Yet there are many ways people define what it means to beat a game. Take, for instance, Super Mario Bros. 3 on the NES. Is it beating the game if you use Warp Whistles to bypass 3/4 of the worlds? Is it beating the game if you don't unlock everything (aka get 100% completion)?
I would personally never pay for someone else's saves, or MMO character accounts. Most of the thrill, and the accomplishment factor, comes from doing it on your own. Sure, RPG games aren't for everyone. Even I get bored with level grinding at times (which usually becomes necessary at least once in every RPG), but it is an integral aspect of the game.
You don't pay $10 to see the last 15 minutes of a movie. Why would you pay to play the end of a game?
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