[jeffem]

Developers really need to understand their users and implement these cheats intelligently or they create frustrations of their own.

As an example, I played a football game that obviously had some type of tackling assistance. When I dove to tackle someone, my defenseman wouldn't dive to the spot I was aiming at, but instead try to orient himself to the ball carrier. The developers probably thought that this was helping people with their "misaimed" tackles, but it was actually causing me to miss them. When I dive, I'm aiming for a spot where I think the runner will be, not where he is at the moment I hit the button.

I've seen these types of things enough that I'd approach the idea of implementing a cheat much more cautiously than other features.