Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-30576757-20170221050616/@comment-28176594-20170222161636

That's a fail for FM from my point of view. Great post. However I beg to differ in the quoted sentence. That's not a fail, that's a completely logical step. FM knows that catching hackers is hard, demands a lot of resources and can't be guaranteed a 100% success rate. It's just a fact, in a game as massiva as RR3 you are gonna run into people who really like reverse-engineering software and who has soft ethics.

FM is playing populism here. Top teams raised the hacking concern with a strike, requesting better protection against real hackers, especially in team events. Then the crowd (which is the people who FM cares about, because it's what keeps the game alive) started complaining about hackers without even knowing what does informed people mean by hackers. What does FM do? "Fixes" WTTT which is easy but totally misses the point about the original protest and improve it's image with "the crowd". In fact, I'm sure that if FM saw upgrades borrowing as morally incorrect, they would have patched it at least one year ago it's maximum one day work of a 5 people team.

From FM point of view, it totally makes sense. They will never spend the resources necessary to really participate in the mouse and cat game with hackers, but found a good political exit from the massive protests.