Hacking Video Games In A Personal/Isolated Environment
Yes I’ve noticed that usually with micro-transactions of this nature, either the game requires internet connection to play or those particular in-game resources have values which are stored on your game account within an external server or an online platform. I personally think that hacking stuff outside your system (over the internet/game hacks for server or online advantage) is wrong only because it is outside your own operating system. Hence, I personally wouldn’t try to hack server based values or anything being influenced via the internet or outside my system. Another parallel: Even books are copyrighted material. If I buy a book, I can do whatever I want with it whether or not it’s the intented purpose; read it, tear it, burn it. I can even create my own continuation of the story as much as the original author does not like it. I think even photocopying the book is fine as long as you strictly keep the copy to yourself and it does not fall in the hands of anyone else as that would be theft/unlawful distribution of intellectual property. Hence given the above logic and the research I’ve done, I feel that one should have the freedom to do whatever they want with a software they paid for and strictly within their system and offline.