User blog comment:Doctorgray/My Opinion on the Great Mod Debate/@comment-1702851-20120215201125

You shouldn't speak about modded weapons that way, or at least you should differentiate what I call Modded guns and what I call Cheated Guns. Both are created from a save editor, however whereas cheated guns use an exploit in 1.3 detection (With Scorpio itemgrade), modded guns are the ones that you want to have but don't want to farm. I tolerate the modded guns, especially Unique ones, because some people love the Spy, but why couldn't they scale it to L69 ? Same for unique weapons that are rewards for a relatively-low level mission, or very special ones like the Rider. After all, those who make legit modded weapons waste their fun, but as long as anyone could find this weapon, I don't say anything.

Don't misunderstand me, I share your opinion with cheated guns, there's no point in playing with twenty 9 damage weapons. But you may add a definition or at least a precision in the title.

Also, D2 was a bit different because you could only play with cheated weapons in Open Battle.Net, which is SP ported to MP ("True" MP being Closed BNet)