Board Thread:Dark Souls/@comment-25247371-20140813071145/@comment-24349637-20140830104721

Cheating gains the cheater an unfair advantage, and backstabbing a bowing duelist is exactly that. Observe that in order to be considered a cheater without using cheats, there has to be a ruleset to break in the first place. And I think we have concluded that these so called rules are highly subjective not in any way absolute.

I'm glad we could keep this discussion a civil exchange of opinions, and thank you for addressing some of my points, although some important ones were still not answered.

Cosmic:

I didn't mention this in my post but I absolutely agree that generalization beased on covenants, especially when it's negative, is unnecessary and irrational.

Zelron & Xero:

In my opinion, and opponent diconnecting from online play in the middle of a match is unfortunate and irritating, but it will always happen as long as there's the option to do so. In Dark Souls 2 it's easier than ever, with no risk of corrupting your save file. Instead, there's a limit on how many times you can do this before being locked out of online play. I wouldn't stress too much about it, unless that potential win you feel you were cheated out of means everything to you. DCing is still pretty uncommon, so it's almost a non-issue anyway.