The Danger of Save Scumming in Video Games...

Playing a lot of Baldur's Gate 3 remind me of the morality question of save scumming. What is save scumming?
Save scumming is: To reload the last saved game whenever the player character dies or an unfavorable outcome has been encountered.
Basically, the usage of constantly saving the game and reloading you're save until you get your wanted result. Example would be saving before a 1% drop of loot in an rpg, so that you can reload and try again for free if you didn't get that 15.
Is this the right way to play games? Is this cheating?
Let's Talk About It!
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[@gyrojay8799]

As we say in dnd. The dice have 1s on them for a reason. Sometimes nat 1s can lead to as many if not more memorable moments then nat 20s. And in choice driven games like baldur's gate and divinity original sin 2 (both by larian studios) it allows for tons of reasons to playthrough multiple times! God bless :)

[@BulldogLawyer]

I mostly save-scummed because the game on release (and even more so in pre-release access) had a number of bugs. The game is amazing, but it helps a lot.

[@CHRISTIAN_GAMER]

That’s definitely understandable. I usually don’t refer that to save scumming, but it’s definitely a form of it. Saving to prevent the loss of time because of an bug or random death, feels a bit different.