Dear GermanMayor,
Things you said are totally correct.
Lot of people complains about bubblers, but IMO the real problems of the game are the ones you listed: hacking & cheating.
It would be great if EA would be able fighting hackers & cheaters.
Let's say that a good start would be at least fighting hackers: I saw how some cheat works, and if it's undeniable that it helps a lot, these shortcuts can be countered by a good club with good strategies (my focus is more on wars than on COM).
But hacker's shortcuts are very frustrating, you can't fight'em: maybe you can on a single war, not in ten wars. Not to talk about COM, where it's even worst.
And SCBI now looks like a jungle, where everyone does everything, and the situation seems to be worst day by day.
I'm not trying to defend EA. I can't share how a game operator works, but there's something I can say about it (I've been a GO for gameforge for years): I'm european (italian). "Privacy policy" sounds like an abstract thing. Private business can have their own policies, that must respect national laws and -at least in UE- european ones. Years ago these laws were more simplier, so it was easy for a game operator to collect proofs and punish unfair players. In the last years, privacy laws are way more complicated, and only public agents can bypass some of the new limits. Private ones cannot. That's very frustrating for a game operator: you know that player is unfair, but you can't blame him 'cause you can't officially use proofs you collected, as if you do and he starts a lawsuit he would win it, so that you'd have to unlock his account, letting him play in his unfair way and -even worst- refund him too. That at least in EU. It's the main reason I quitted being a game operator.
The hope is that EA will soon find a way to fight these players.
The feeling is that they won't.
Now that you mention top players, i just checked the leaderboard and found "2 Mentes Siniestras" , searched the club and notice that their president is lvl 1 in war, and have lvl 15 magnetism, mellow bellow, etc, same others players in that club. So this guys completely upgrade all attacks before the first game? But wondering, why lvl 1 in war? Why? Should have a least some points i mean, so, i think is lvl 1 because EA banned those, so they crate another account (that's explain the 0 historial in war) , because why a top player don't have any points ? Is rare, so probably EA is banning these players but they just created another account and that's all. Pretty hard situation for EA and us....
