This is completely morally different from star trees imo. It's not like someone could come to your island and plonk down a hacked tree to put your island at risk, and most people buying and selling star trees knew the risks and warned people. These are wrapped gifts that were given to people under the false notion that they were simply a regular in-game item. This is just lying to and hurting innocent players going to seemingly innocent giveaways
star trees were wrapped when given away. while they could only be planted in your town by people with best friends status, back when everyone was scared about them potentially creating dead tiles, it kind of is the same thing.
welcome to planet earth home to the meanest creatures alive the humans
Sad but true
I'm really curious about the psychology behind this stuff. Even if they are sociopaths like someone suggested... why would they go so out of their way? Sighhh.
It's not the hacked items that's the problem. It's the people tricking others into taking hacked items that don't want is the issue. More or less, it comes down to consent. If you wanna hack your town, cool, have fun. I could admire a cool star or chuckle at all the inclines people hacked. But I don't want it in my game. If someone were to force me to take it into my game THAT'S the issue. Basically, you do what you want with your game. But don't come after mine. Most of the people who hacked star trees used it to make their own islands more pretty- and I still see no problem with that (apparently Nintendo disagrees, but whatever). But, in this situation, people are forcing hacked items on others and potentially damaging their games. To try and compare the two is absolutely ridiculous.
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