Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-35180316-20180409075909/@comment-107.167.112.72-20180427170321

Keep going hulk. No one has really mentioned the real reason they allow hacking: frustration. If you've been following the discussion about social media lately, these companies key metric is "engagement". Frustration is one of the key manipulations they use to keep us playing longer. EA has won worst company in America, and this is against Verizon, Exxon, and Amazon. The executive group, given the companies reputation, self selects for sociopathy. What is the end result of the cheaters? Frustration. This drives average rubes to spend more time, money or ad clicks, thus more revenue. The last special event showed how they want to manipulate users. 8.3 was near impossible for mere mortals FU'd. I skipped it, but it stuck in my craw something fierce. While certainly there may be bad coding in the chain, it's the executives saying, "Ha, that'll drive engagement!" Make no mistake, this game is a manipulation of users to drive engagement period. EA may have acquired a quality product, but they knew they had a huge dopamine factory they could manufacture legions of junkies with. That's how they think.