If there is a suspected beneficial glitch...

Neglecterino wrote:

4kidsandacatdog wrote:
I admit curiosity gets the better of me. I like to know, but I don't necessarily take advantage of them when they occur.

Would EA even read the notification if someone were to tell? They don't seem to notice when we endlessly complain about non-beneficial glitches.

My guess is that EA is keeping stats on things to make a decision on whether to let things ride or not.

The reason would be that modifying code is a risk, because you can introduce new bugs every time you touch the code. When it seems to be affecting the bottom line, that is probably when they decide to touch the code.

I would tend to agree with your speculation. I am saying this based on my observations from past experiences with the game. Over the past 3 or so years of tapping, we have experienced many different glitches with the game.

Just from this current event alone, we have had the double payout on Cecil's rewards, the Money Mountain glitch, and then Endless Bob's. Also, all of the currency earning tasks were not highlighted. EA has very poor overall communication with its players. So we are simply left to guess and speculate what is going on. While some of these were fixed promptly, others took longer.

Before this, one of the biggest glitches of the entire game was the stackable handshake glitch. This glitch lasted for months before it was corrected. I speculate that EA allowed this to continue to exist, because they were actually still making money off of the glitch. Several people, myself included, spent donuts to rush finishing a Squidport tile to tap, while we could still stack them. Also, the glitch changed after the first week or so, from where we could stack a multiple handshakes, like over 10, to were we could only stack one or two, before we had to clear the hand shake. That was rather suspect. The glitch continued to exist with the reduced stackables for another month or two. I know other players at that point who rushed growing their corn, to get it tapped, and also bought Bumblebee man or Arnie Pye, to maximize their tap profit at the TV station.

I would speculate that had the Money Mountain glitch contained a few different sections that required players to rush with donuts to advance, instead of just the one with Smithers, then EA would have allowed that glitch to exist longer, to collect some more donuts. Maybe I am being cynical, but I think EA is just like any other capitalist company, their focus is the bottom line. If they are losing out on the glitch, they will remove it as quickly as possible, but if they are unexpectedly profiting from the glitch, then they will let it ride, or at least assign a much lower priority to resolving the issue. This makes for a poor customer service experience, and gives a mixed message to the players. Thus, I cannot fault anyone for exploiting any known glitches.