As others have pointed out, speedhacking is not the only cheat used in PvP.
But it just occurred to me that there's a deeper issue.
You know how people say that the team can't effectively deal with scripting without hurting sales overall, because so many people script?
That's pretty unlikely, if you're talking about scripters versus the game population over all.
But, if we believe half of what the PvP community has said about itself, cheating is quite widespread in that community. Widespread enough that one faces a choice between cheating or not competing at all. I see this said in global chat on a near-constant basis, and it's said here pretty often.
Keep in mind, I'm not saying "PvPers are cheaters." Rather, I'm pointing out something that cannot possibly be in reasonable dispute: PvPers say that PvPers are cheaters. And they say it a lot.
Arbitrarily, let's say half of the accusations are true. Just half.
Could the last 5% that the Producer's talking about be the fear that attacking cheating diminishes the size of the PvP community overall?
If that's his fear.....Is he right? Or do you all think that once cheating is attacked and dealt with to at least some degree, people who have become accustomed to cheating in order to successfully compete against cheaters will adapt, and maybe even be happier overall?
-Galen's player