@hubert-lo
> My biggest issue is Rovio have let the exploits existed for so long where they
> should have patched them immediately. Now they take it away the game is less
> enjoyable for us to play.
True, but for the 99% of people who didn’t know about the exploits because they don’t Google, or don’t come here….
And as a programmer, I will tell you:
1) Some of those exploits are absolutely non-trivial to patch, especially on Android where security is a sieve, or due to the logistics of SWITCHING where item counts are stored (from local storage to the server, which could place high load on the servers).
2) Not all of the exploits have been closed. Our Lady is gone, as is Mighty MIGHTY Eagle, but there are others still there, including ones that don’t require you to hack your phone.
As a player, I’m going to reveal little, other than to say that on the whole, they made the game MORE exploitable with these changes, not less. The primary reason for this is that it is now far easier to exploit for gems and black pearls, without hacking or jailbreaking your phone.
The deduction of how this could be done is left as an exercise to the reader, but for me, I’ll trade Mighty MIGHTY Eagle and Our Lady (whom I never used) for easier access to pearls and gems any day.
Jester
