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I’m star level 63, all birds at 10 with quite a number of “banked” feathers that will be added when elder silver goes live. I’ve played countless video games from Pong, to Pacman, numerous DOS games, games on floppy disks, CD games, role playing games, fps games from Halo to Wolfenstein to all iterations of Diablo and so many others. I’m very good at them and I know when a game is being manipulated. Skillful shots are only part of game play in AB2; sometimes a very small part. Sometimes the manipulation is subtle, sometimes it is so obvious as to be laughably and patently obvious. When I make a shot that I’ve made 100s of times before resulting in a strike and see the bird, right before impact, slow down dramatically and bounce harmlessly away, I call that algorithmic manipulation. Sometimes when I am certain of a win and have several birds left after the opponent has none, I have to fire many more birds than normal in order to clear an easy room, thus my score is being held down agorithmically so as to reduce the amount of stars I’m awarded for that win. Other examples abound but you get the picture. And how about all the times when a bird’s special ability fails to deploy, e.g. Matilda’s egg doesn’t drop, or if it drops doesn’t explode. Or when Blues doesn’t split. Other examples ad infinitum. Obviously, this could be player error but when it happens to very good players frequently and at critical times, are these glitches, bugs or manipulation? Does it matter to the player the cause? No. What matters to the player is that he was deprived of the opportunity to compete fairly. As for hackers/cheaters, it seems that Rovio is incompetent and unable to control and eliminate them. Other game companies have staff dedicated to eliminating hackers/cheaters and when uncovered are banned for life. These are among the many reasons players are dissatisfied and leaving AB2. They’re saying auf wiedersehen, ciao, adieu, adios, goodbye.