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I’m not sure what other comments have made you think I work for Rovio. Rest assured I have nothing to do with them, other than being an AB player. My view on this issue is that you can both be wrong – just because Rovio have been (inexplicably!) foolish, doesn’t somehow mean you weren’t cheating.

I agree that Rovio has directly contributed to the cheating environment. Not fixing exploits they were told about; not communicating clearly on what they saw in terms of cheating; not sending messages about plans to crack down that might have reduced cheating; setting up the game mechanics in way that quite directly encourages people to cheat etc. I also empathise with those who DID choose to cheat. I would have been tempted, but basically a bit too lazy and not competitive minded enough to bother. For a brief couple of weeks a long time ago I was even maxed out on bird card levels! Now I have just a bit over 500 FP by the way, so a massively long way from being maxed out. I figured there would always be people cheating better than me, so without heaps of work I was never going to be top of the top anyway. For most game play, it also didn’t seem to matter – no impact on trail levels and arena provided fairish match ups anyway, so why bother. Of course, that’s changed and CVC as well as MEBC provide massive advantages now. The arena is a joke, where I regularly get opponents with infinite spells and +100 FP. Clearly set up for you to fail. Presumably, if you’re maxed out it’s a lot harder for the arena to match you with impossible opponents, but I’m sure they manage. And yes, I’ve also experienced the miracles of a lower FP opponent having a perfect run and getting 7 million per bird / room. Am I annoyed that Rovio has manipulated the game in these ways? Sure. I’m also realistic enough to realise they HAVE to be “money grubbing”.

So for your own reasons, you decided you WOULD cheat. Fine. You can justify it however you want – and as per above I can understand why you did – but that doesn’t change the fact that you did. If you’ve now been banned, well, that’s the consequence.

Rovio’s being really silly with this banning business, but it is their choice. It’s incredible how easily many cheats have clearly evaded and avoided the bans – so I again empathise with your frustration; you’ve been picked on and other more “blatant” and “worse” cheaters have got away with it. Rovio should have:

– announced crack downs a long time ago, to warn players off exploits

– developed much better algorithms to identify cheats

– for a first offence, removed all the loot from players

– changed features in the game to NOT reward and incentivise cheating