Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-29746749-20180810171303/@comment-36299871-20180813222800

The problem is that this is contract law, not criminal law, and the key part of any contract is whether the parties involved in the contract agreed to the terms of the contract. You agreed to these terms when you first played the game (or re-downloaded it). It is difficult to argue that there are unreasonable clauses in a contract that you have agreed to in advance. The fact you didn't read that contract is irrelevant as you are responsible for reading it before agreeing to be bound by it. Unreasonable terms usually only apply if something happens that makes a particular clause impossible to deliver because of something that couldn't be predicted happening. In those circumstances the contract is usually broken and one party can sue for and losses arising from not delivering the contract.

I think EA would find it hard to claim that endurance races are exploiting the game because, if you play online as intended, you have to beat other player bots and I've often had 15km to 20km targets to beat not to mention the odd 200km in perpetual endurance events. Consequentially, I play endurance races (and hunters now) offline to avoid this issue. Oddly, this is probably exploiting more than the just driving a perpetual endurance to level up.

I think the only time you have to worry about exploits is where you gain an unfair advantage using one. Perpetual isn't really unfair as you have to put the hours in, as with farming. Bot slowing doesn't really give you much of a gain as it doesn't get you any gold directly, it just helps make the game easier.

However, any exploit that allows you to amass gold quickly should be considered dangerous. Those people surprised that they got banned for levelling up hundreds of times in a week are, frankly, naive at best. I'd like to use a different word but got told off last time for not respecting people that don't deserve any respect.