Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-31526827-20190824003721/@comment-31600610-20190829182625

I've been reading these comments for a few days and it grinds my gears to see the daily struggle that some of you go through just to attempt to make the game playable, as well as fun.

I farm (on average) about 200 per day. I once farmed slightly over 500 in a day, in order to acquire and FU a car I desperately wanted.

For 200 I ran 200 ads. No hacking involved whatsover. Taking advantage of a gaping-wide loophole? Absolutely.

Please note: The discussion of exploit methodology is somewhat frowned upon here, (I have no earthly idea why, and frankly I don't care) but... unless you've been living under a rock for awhile, then you most likely are aware of the methodology already, or at least have a vague concept of it. If you wish to learn more, Google will help you find it. Now, I've heard the arguments about some exploits being a violation of EA's TOU. Well, so is flagrantly hacking the game code itself, or having multiple accounts. Do you see EA.FM doing anything about it? Yeah, me neither.

If you're worried that taking advantage of a certain loophole in the game that makes it possible to watch nothing but gold ads, let me set your mind at ease: You won't be banned. (You could, but you won't.) Why? What makes me so sure? Simple real world economics, my friends. Regardless of the EXACT monetary amount, EA/FM profits from every single ad watched. So, they have a choice: Either profit very little from ads, or profit very much from ads. Pretty simple choice for them, isn't it? Now, as a business, who is concerned with profitability? The programmers? The development team? Not a snowball's chance in hell. The shareholders, the accountants, and the executives are the only ones concerned with profits, and the only thing they're going to notice and address is a reduction in revenue. The amount of money that is generated from advertising far outnumbers the amount of money spent on (legally acquired} IAP's. (That "legally acquired" is in paranthesis because it denotes the fact that staggering amounts of IAP's within the Google Play Games platform are acquired with stolen/hacked credit card data. This is information anyone can easily view online. Again, Google is your friend. In addition, the revenue that EA/FM receives from those fraudulently acquired IAP's REMAINS IN THEIR POCKETs. Insurance reimburses those that have beed defrauded.)

I understand there's a few of you that will read this, and you'll become incensed with me for what I'm saying. You'll be the ones that say "Oh my Gawd, that's CHEATING!  You're gonna get banned! You're breaking the rules! Oh my dear, sweet GAAAAAWD!!!" Guess what? To put it succinctly and not so subtlely:  You're the ones that truly ruin a game for everyone else. Your sanctimonious attitude compels you to belittle and chastise others for doing something that YOU don't agree with. Worse, you're the types that will shoot off an email to someone that doesn't really care in the first place. You're a tattle-tale. A snitch. What do snitches get? Ask Jimmy Hoffa when you find him...

Let's be real here, shall we? If you were walking along a nature trail, and suddenly turned a corner to discover thousands of $100 bills lying around, would you gather them up and consider yourself fortunate, or would you carefully count every one, bind them together with little rubber bands, and attempt to find the owner?

Psychologists have studied this scenario (Google it) and have found that the majority of people who choose to keep the money consider themselves to be normally honest people. When asked why would they make such a decision, they produced many different justifications. What it ultimately boiled down to was: opportunity.

So, to those of you that say, "Oh, I would never keep that money", I have a reply for that. Either you're a LIAR or you're a saint. If you say "I'd return it", but in your heart you hope there's a reward: You're a hypocrite. If you're a saint, God bless you for your adherence to your beliefs. That takes guts.

I'm no saint. And I'll tell you the truth: I would keep every damned bit of that money and enjoy it, and thank Almighty God for being so generous to willingly place such a bountiful blessing in my path. Who am I to consider from whence the rain came?

Now, time to go buy another fake car, with fake money, upgrade it with more fake money that I earned by faking to watch some ads featuring fake people pretending to enjoy a product that most likely contains fake ingredients or fake features.... Kind of puts things into perspective, doesn't it?