I’d quote the original text for reference:
It’s a super elastic rule, some of my points could be under this clause if we want (we don’t, but still).
Granted, they’ll not let me farm millions, also I did not know these people farmed millions.
If that was the case, a ban might be okay, but also reverting their account to a state half year ago. It did not harm other player’s gaming experience (I think), so a permanent ban felt a bit strong.
The other side does not need to activate them, though. Could just switch who is curring winning. At least that could be one way. Plus, maybe both sides can farm each other long enough to make the winning bonus less notable.
But no custom expert here so not sure what is all possible.
Don’t need to activate it, like can just switch it off til.later like??
Well, if you have enough silvers prior to the abuse, you could technically just buy new chests after each round, at least that is my assumption.
Everyvplayer on earth agrees was an over reaction to ban. Like droping meteors to kill bugs.
Most of the banned players had already completed all their equipment development before being banned, so their accounts were in a state where they didn’t need to worry about development. Among them were my friends, whose accounts had assets worth tens of thousands (not in-game currency) before being banned, and they were quite active. Meanwhile, a few people I know but aren’t my friends didn’t get banned because their accounts were still in the development phase, and their assets were only a few hundred. I saw their accounts were still fine. This made me seriously suspect that the company is using this bug as an excuse to ban accounts that no longer held any value, especially since they had just made a small mistake, making it the perfect opportunity. Moreover, during this discount event, these high-value accounts even spent real money, and the company harvested the last bit of value from these accounts before banning them. If they had been banned right when they started using the bug, I wouldn’t speak up for these accounts, but it happened right after the discount event! And the bans were issued immediately after the event ended—doesn’t that just seem like they wanted to squeeze the last bit of value from these high-value accounts? It feels like the feelings of long-time players don’t matter at all. Seeing my friends go through this, I will never spend real money on my account again. If someday the developers get upset and find an excuse to ban my account, all my efforts would be for nothing!!!
This should have happened much earlier. Most of these people probably also abused the Dutch VPN back then - intentionally.
Any competent person can distinguish between a deliberate explanation of the game and simply stumbling upon bugs.
All of these people deserved to be banned. They devalued the time and resources of people who did not exploit similar bugs.