Duping Is Cheating... FACT!

I don't get why people feel the need to dupe. I mean, I don't dupe, but I know people who do and it just boggles my mind. I was PROUD of breaking $100,000 and then my buddy crushed me with "oh that's nothing, we're all sitting on over 2 mill each". I'd never made it past level 15 in BL1, partly because my roommate was ALWAYS playing my copy, and I'm too nice to demand he shut off his game mid-mission so I could play, but mostly because the friends I had who played BL1 were dupers who had infinite money, shields that didn't deplete, and guns that did max damage at any range on any enemy. It was BORING because they killed everything and had nothing to worry about except falling off the map.

I honestly thought BL2 would be different, but everyone I know are all sitting on $2.5mil or more with all the same broken assed legendary guns/shields/etc that they pass around to each other like digital herpes while I'm straggling behind with my refusal to give in to the easy mode.

I mean, sure, them cheating doesn't make my single player experience worse(aside from the demoralization of knowing that everything I work for could be accomplished in a boring afternoon by gun-chucking dupers), but it does definitely hurt online play with friends when people you know don't want to play "fair".

Why are people so willing to rob themselves of the experience they paid to see? I didn't pay $60 to spend afternoons cloning equipment and playing with 3 other homogenized characters in the exact same gear, I spent $60 to play with friends where awesome loot was awesome because it was rare and actually meant something, where trading was a real exchange of goods and carried more weight than "oh don't worry, I have 28 more where that came from". And it really is hard to maintain "I don't dupe" when all your friends are all decked out in amazing gear in every slot and you're pretty much a wasted slot in the group because luck doesn't smile on you as brightly, and when you finally manage to drag people out into the field, if anything good does happen to drop, it's not "oh, hey, who can use this best", it's "Alright, steve gets it and he'll clone it for everyone else".

Duping = cheating, and hurts the game whether you think it does or not. If this was an entirely single player experience, that'd be one thing(like skyrim or fallout), but it's not.
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