User blog comment:Mckrongs/Don’t Hack Your Save File In Monster Hunter 4 – Capcom’s Watching/@comment-17735225-20131009130004/@comment-3170896-20131009143812

I see hacking with a good and bad side in games; depending on how it's being used it can being around some interesting results to toy around with. Just the same, it could be completely baffling how it's being used for someone's gain against other players.

Personally, custom quests (not the easy "give-them-all-materials-for-no-effort" quests, please no) are always an interesting thing when done right as you can play with some interesting fights in a group. For some monsters, size does make a difference in the fight so it changes up the battle from what you're normally used to, among other things.

Although, grinding isn't really much of an issue for me; Luck is... well, just random chance. I've had my bad weeks and such, but who hasn't? (and what do you mean the "quest leveling system" is a reason? What, they can't take the time to do missions to level up their HR rank? Hell, I'd be using that "time" to collect materials or help other people rank up on their stuff.

Back in Frontier, I didn't focus on rank up too much as that sort of just came around while I worked on assisting other people with their quests or material collection; I picked up what I needed and ranked up along the way as I wasn't in any rush to get what I needed, either. (Then again, ranking up in Frontier is easy enough...) I suppose I just enjoy playing the game; If someone wants to hack and get themselves to end game, that's totally okay with me. Just means that's more people to play with at a later rank; If they aren't good at it (and it shows) then it means they just need to play more to get better.