Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-35180316-20180409075909/@comment-122.118.36.184-20180429025524

I wasn't addressing OMP engagement per se, I was speaking to the general goals of EA, and quite frankly all of Silicon Valley. Between "the user is product", and "the surveillance state" the past promise of the online community is fading fast. So I applaud any disruptor, no matter how insignificant. I never really thought about the numbers that you just did Am, interesting. But between the problems with special events, and the way the new backup regime is working on multiple devices (always auto backing up at boot, and often overwriting the best save with a lesser gold clicked one), I cheer hulk on, even if it's quixotic.

As I'm also trying to reclaim time from the obsessive pursuit of this game, I'm sad the leadership has taken such an uppity self righteous stance toward cheating. Somewhere around 2014 this forum surfaced a gold glitch which I followed to get my gold into the four digits. That transformed my game play, and truth be told, actually set the hook of this addiction I'm now trying to break free of. While I agree that the problems hulk is highlighting ruins the game, building a gold stash by capitalising on the mistakes of EA should be all our goals. I've often thought how easy it would be for EA to capture the leadership of this board with their accomplices, manipulating opinions in the same way the fifty cent army works in China. All silicon valley is jealous of China. Yes, I know that there are other closed forums out there somewhere, where all manner of exploits are shared, but I'm trying to spend less time, and intellectual bandwidth generally, on this game. I'm sorry if this offends the leadership here, as they really do do a ton of thankless work, and for that I thank them, but given EA's disdain for users, gold exploits (screw "the man") should be shared, while the spirit of fair competition amongst players should be held paramount.