Dear friends, perhaps it’s a linguistic barrier that prevents us from understanding each other, but I find that the question is very simple, even from a logical point of view.
The core of your argument basically goes like this:
“Changing the DPI of the mouse is a legal function in all FPS, so it is not an exploit in the case of the disk in PHG.”
In the technical language of argumentation theory, this argument is called ignoratio elenchi or red harring.
In fact, applying the same scheme, we could say something like this:
“Since changing speed is a function in all cars, then it is also permissible to travel at 200 miles per hour at will”
Or, let’s imagine a world where, due to ATM malfunction, by typing a certain combination, an amount of money three times the typed amount comes out of the machine (charging your bank account only by the number you entered) . So your argument would go like this:
“Since ATMs require you to enter a code, then all codes can be entered”
Or again:
“Since sugar is not a dangerous substance, we can use it under any circumstances”
But we know that sugar, when combined with other chemicals, becomes a component for very dangerous homemade explosives.
Or
“Since everyone has to work for a living, then children have to work too.”
The fallacy seems obvious to me.
I’m not arguing that in general you shouldn’t change DPI in FPS, but that:
( PC environement)
“In the PHG game, by increasing the DPI above a certain amount (much greater than the slider of the in-game settings ), the disc allows you to perform maneuvers that make it a different and more lethal weapon than what was designed by the developers, therefore it constitutes an exploit.”
In fact, there is also the proof by contradiction: nobody uses the disc at normal DPI.
Moreover, there is the argument by analogy:
the developers have already asserted that animation canceling is an exploit (because it confers an advantage not foreseen by the game mechanics), so by analogy we can affirm that changing the dpi of the disk is a similar case.
