It's really very simple they can not support the software they are selling. They do not seem to have a Quota on the number of sales. All this Baloney about "XP" is total BS and as far as I can tell "XP Farming" is not a recognized legal terminology by any Courts. It is 100% a "Money For Nothing" scheme. And their use of the term is an attempt to belittle and besmirch People. They act as though it's some kind of stolen valor or a theft of some kind ... theft from who exactly. I am telling you it is a scheme and I will detail it's set up one more time.
Market and sell some software.
Set up two types of servers, one an actual server running the software, and another cheap old tech one to pump out some BS messaging 100,000 time a minute until it fries. The cheapies cost about 1/100th of the real deal. As time goes by and they sell more copies of the software they only add more and more cheap throw aways ... thus the scam is complete.
Sit back and watch the money roll in.
I did not see any mention of a Global Quota when they pitched the product.
I am not interested in being manipulated by a bunch of Dev's that create games they themselves would probably not be caught dead playing, and will never be forced into PvP gaming with a toxic community. I simply play video games to pass the time instead of watching TV.
The fatal flaw in their scheme is this, it's not just the THEFT of the purchase price, it the the theft of peoples time. Time is a commodity they can never replace, I dare them to put a price on such a thing. If I have my way I will put a Lap Top in front of a Judge and ask him to Click away at that HOST Button, and then ask them to define "XP Farming" for him.
Your last point is spot on. The time theft is absurd. I spent all this time setting up a custom experience, that I now can't use. Time that I put up and took down a server repeatedly the first day the game was out to get the settings right, when the feature actually worked for me. Time spent sifting through servers made by other users, clicking on a server to view its map rotation, seeing that it's only 1 map over and over again, backout out of that, only to have the game completely reset the filters I just set up. It's so frustrating and such a waste of time that I've gone to play other games for the most part.
And I'm not even setting up a 1v32 "bot farm" or giving players boosted health or anything. My server is default settings for the most part, with a custom rotation, a few gadgets disabled that I find annoying, and bot backfill so it's not empty when there aren't as many active players. My Rush server is up fine; I just can't host Breakthrough or Conquest, and Breakthrough is the mode I most wanted to play.
And finally, maybe people wouldn't feel the need to "XP Farm" if they hadn't made the weapon unlock system so nonsensical or the attachment unlocks such a grind. For weapons, why do you have to get to a certain level to even unlock the challenge to get the weapon? Make it one or the other, the weapon is either unlocked when reaching a certain level, or you have to do a challenge to get it. As for weapon attachments, someone on Reddit said you have to get 3000 kills to max a gun out. In BF4 you needed I think 300 kills to unlock everything for a weapon, but certainly no more than 500.
"XP Farming" is not a term recognized by any Court anywhere. It is not even a thing. It is a device used to intimidate.
