They are shamelessly exploiting...

I don't mind if they cheat. They only thing that's different is that they'll leave a shiny, diamond-encrusted corpse behind when I vanquish them.

They broke the terms of service so you have a right to ask for punishment? LMFAO... now that is hilarious. Who are you again? A Keystone Cop? They did nothing to you. They did nothing to your gameplay. In fact I'll bet that they most likely weren't even in a game with you... so why do you have a right to ask for punishment when nothing was done to you? You don't. Get over yourself. You're not that important.

Considering AHQ_Official approved one of my posts, it's pretty evident that you're crying over spilt milk here.

Sigh...

Your post only shows how you don't care about Rules of Conduct.

I'ts really disappointing to see it coming from an "important user" of the community 😞

Rules of conduct? Are you going to turn yourself in if you speed, then? I guarantee that you won't. You only concern yourself with rules when you're not breaking them, I would guess.

They did nothing to nobody. That's why I could care less. You concern yourself with others way too much.

I'm no more important than anyone else on this forum. I post my opinion and that's it. It's going to be different because people are different... as are their belief systems.

Okay AW, I have already understood that you think it's okay to break rules to benefit yourself if it doesn't directly affect other people.

Thank you for you opinion.

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@CurlyQ326 wrote:

Dear PopCap,

 

Yesterday, I was googling the best way to earn coins on Garden Warfare 2 and got shocked when I discovered a huge number of players are glitching the game and earning millions of coins in hours…

I will not give details (because you probably already know how it works), but the glitch consists in opening a chest repeatedly.

So, I decided to create this post to ask for a punishment to those people. You should reset their characters, levels and coins (ban is not necessary, in my opinion) so they would have to do everything again the right way.

 

It’s so easy to find them:

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You realize of course that PopCap were already aware of this bug? And are working to fix it? And by making this post you've informed more people about it's existence? If anything you've driven more users to those forums. You even said it yourself "It's so easy to find them".

And the biggest issue is, there's no way to know if they're hacking beyond those people who listed their names on those forums. Your first point isn't accurate, because you can just join a friend in their Backyard Battleground and help them with the gnome hunt. After the hunt is over, you get the coins from the gnome hunt too. If you do this with more than one person in a day, you can easily meet the criteria for your first point.

That may be an unintended feature as well, but it doesn't seem like it.

EDIT: Hacking or Glitching, whatever. Basically the same thing.

WHO CARES

I personally think Popcap should go after them for one reason, and one reason only; They made it against the rules. 

If you are going to make exploiting against the rules, then you must vigorously pursue and punish all of those who breaks that rule, regardless of its effect on others. One cannot take a "willy-nilly" approach to how they enforce their own rules, it sends mixed messages.

Now, for the most part, I also see this as a victim-less crime (ethics aside). But, it is clearly a violation of the TOS. 

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@ShadowRosalina wrote:

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@CurlyQ326 wrote:

Dear PopCap,

 

Yesterday, I was googling the best way to earn coins on Garden Warfare 2 and got shocked when I discovered a huge number of players are glitching the game and earning millions of coins in hours…

I will not give details (because you probably already know how it works), but the glitch consists in opening a chest repeatedly.

So, I decided to create this post to ask for a punishment to those people. You should reset their characters, levels and coins (ban is not necessary, in my opinion) so they would have to do everything again the right way.

 

It’s so easy to find them:

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You realize of course that PopCap were already aware of this bug? And are working to fix it? And by making this post you've informed more people about it's existence? If anything you've driven more users to those forums. You even said it yourself "It's so easy to find them".

And the biggest issue is, there's no way to know if they're hacking beyond those people who listed their names on those forums. Your first point isn't accurate, because you can just join a friend in their Backyard Battleground and help them with the gnome hunt. After the hunt is over, you get the coins from the gnome hunt too. If you do this with more than one person in a day, you can easily meet the criteria for your first point.

That may be an unintended feature as well, but it doesn't seem like it.

EDIT: Hacking or Glitching, whatever. Basically the same thing.

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Firstly, thank you for not posting things like "I don't care about it, so let them do what they want" and for saying constructive things 🙂

About your questions, I don't think that the people that started exploiting because of my post makes any difference at all. If PopCap decides to punish them, they will lose everything. If not, PopCap would be saying "We don't care about exploiters", so they (the new exploiters) would be doing nothing wrong.

About the gamertag on the forums I have talked before, of course PopCap would not only punish them for just posting their gamertags there. They would have to analyze the "coin flow" of the possible exploiters before.

And, lastly, about the 750k limit. I still think that earning 750k coins at backyard battleground (remember, I'm talking about the coins that "jump out" of the chests, coins earned from "coins cards" don't count) per day is something impossible to do. But, it is just an idea, PopCap can change this limit to whatever they think it's acceptable.

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@AWMaxSterling wrote:

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@PonyLovingScrub wrote:

People seriously don't care about exploits ? you guy's are hilarious as if you exploiting it right now and trying to defend it :D

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It's quite simple. I don't concern myself if kids want to get their customizations quicker. Big deal. As I said, this is a video game... something to relax with, not something to stress over. Why would I want PopCap to waste time and money hunting these people down and for what? To take away pieces that they're gonna eventually unlock anyways? So what's the point?

You're more than welcome to look at my screen captures and see that I don't have much of anything unlocked as far as customization... so that blows that theory of yours about me having exploited it.

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Its still exploiting, stop trying to justify it.