@sugget I agree that a dev can't expect all the ways their game will be played.
I see no real issue with offline cheats. The main concern is that today it's players critics that rule at if the game is worth it or not ( look at steam reviews, I barely even bother to investigate if the game would worth it or not when the critics are "variable"... it saves some time, but it's mostly not well argumented critics ), and that they don't have the professionalism of independant game review magazines, therefore it's important to provide to the players the game as intended by the devs.
playing godmode, noclip and etc, can seriously lower the overall feeling a player can enjoy a game. I for example don't use them anymore because I know that I will enjoy for some time and then see "behind the scenes", and that it will break the immersion.
But it's a pretty weak argument, because nobody forces you to use them, you may enjoy it a lot more than I do, and as I get older I have less concerns about immersion, I have seen countless times the borders of the maps of many games, I know there isn't anything behind that moutain, I know more how code works etc... again I might not be the only one in this case.
I don't say I'm not immersed in Exanima, I really am. knowing it's just all 1 and 0's.
Finally, good cheats are possible. "Zombies mode" is always fun in other games, I know, it wouldn't make any difference in Exanima ( for now
), so "Sir mode", like Parco did, flying..., godmode... I don't know I just assume, I'm really not a cheatcode user.
Finally², mods ! Where would you draw the line between mods and cheatcodes ?
As long as people don't ask for BM to create them, like some company do, I'm fine with cheatcodes made by a player. In the other case, It's sounds more like a last minute add, any other "ingame" element have priority.
edit : after I read some more replies I realize all my points had been made x)
