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rlc@rlcoone@shane-sinclair That didn’t quite come out like I intended, I meant abandon ABT. LOL
rlc@rlcoone4.2.2, I think you’re on to something. I almost hope they abandon the older operating systems so I have a good reason to abandon the thing.
rlc@rlcooneHaving the sound off makes it easier to ignore the ads, just look away for ten to twenty seconds and close it when you look back.
rlc@rlcooneIt happens all the time to a lot of people. The whole game is buggier than a termite hill and Rovio/Exient likes it that way. If you lose lives you’ll have to use gems. If you use up all your gems, you’ll have to buy more. If you buy more, Rovio/Exient makes lots of money. Always follow the money and you’ll find a motive and a money grubbing pirate.
rlc@rlcooneNever had the sound on, I don’t even know what it sounds like nor do I want to find out.
rlc@rlcooneNicely stated Swing, I don’t think I’ve ever seen such unrepentant, unethical conduct anywhere. .
rlc@rlcoone@kingdao There is no evidence that there is any testing beyond “in house” testing going on. In house testing is notoriously bad as those people rarely do anything unexpected like real players would do. Exient would do well to recruit new volunteers regularly to beta test any changes and delay those changes until thoroughly tested.
To be quite honest the record of long-standing bugs and the propensity to blame those bugs on the hardware people are using indicates that the only testing being done is a quick run-through by the developers to be sure that it operates at all.
rlc@rlcooneSo where are our very own Exient members and why aren’t they making a similar announcement here? In the absence of evidence to the contrary and past experience I’ll assume it’s cowardice.
rlc@rlcooneYou can certainly imagine other possibilities but how likely is it that whatever you come up with is happening to multiple people every day? It’s just letting Rovio off the hook and after all the bad things they’ve done to us, the obviously phony excuses they give for the bugs, and the long refusal to expand the game board do you really want to defend them? Do you really trust them?
Go ahead and try to come up with some way the massive scores happening in an incredibly short period of time could happen but at least conclude that it’s not likely.
rlc@rlcooneWhen you already have a simple explanation for how that could happen it’s silly to look for some complicated way for it to happen. It’s easy to see how it could happen with bots, the chances of someone spending thousands of gems and running through hundreds of runs just to come in first for a thousand tokens is just not sensible. If someone spent a thousand gems to to get a thousand tokens he’s a moron, in the token exchange the same thousand gems are worth two thousand tokens.
Everyone should stop trying to find silly ways it could be done and just accept that Rovio is screwing us all with bots.
rlc@rlcooneIf it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck. There are definitely bots whose purpose is to make you spend gems to keep up with them. Rovio has a perfect motive to do this as they make money selling gems. Their behavior in changing the bots that people have paid money to acquire is dishonest and makes everything they do suspect. They won’t even admit that the bugs are in their programming not in dozens of different devices. It’s gotten to the point that anything they say is most likely a lie.
Remember how great the early Angry Birds games were? It’s sad that Rovio is now run by a bunch of crooks.
rlc@rlcooneRovio doesn’t really care whether you play the competition or not, they just want your money. That’s why they leave the bugs there, that’s why they use bots to drive up the scores, that’s why they nerf the TF’s and make accessories that make the TF’s weaker, and that’s why they make the competitions miserable to play.
Everyone who just buys the package or buys gems to get ahead in the competitions just plays into Rovio’s plans and gives them more reason to abuse the rest of us. Why should they open up new areas when people keep paying them more and more the worse the game gets?
What are you going to do with the nice shiny TF you just paid money for? Run the same old nodes in the same old areas? Send him on missions while you do other things? Upgrade him to max……and then what?
Read the terms of service, you don’t own the TF you paid money for. They can nerf it, they can take it away from you, they can do anything they want to it. You don’t own it.
rlc@rlcooneI don’t much care why, I’ll take it.
rlc@rlcooneSomebody needs to draw Rovio a map with directions to reality.
rlc@rlcoone@armourbende That might account for some of what everyone is seeing but not for the multiple, daily accounts of suspicious activity. Everyone trying to find some obscure method of attaining those huge jumps forgets Occam’s razor where the simplest explanation is usually correct. Since the scoring anomalies tend to make people spend gems to try to catch up, the purchase of which is beneficial to Rovio, the simplest explanation is that Rovio is using bots.
rlc@rlcooneIsn’t it interesting that almost the only thing that drags the rovio/exient guys out to make a comment is when someone accuses them of using bots for the competitions? A couple of dozen people have complained about various bugs and issues both here and on Facebook and nary a word from them. Say the word “BOT” and they come running to deny it. That seems like a very guilty reaction to me.
rlc@rlcooneYou’re playing bots. They deny this, but look at all the dishonest changes they make to this game to try to force you to spend money, then look at the programming bugs they blame on the devices, and ask yourself if you can believe anything they say.
rlc@rlcooneI’ve had several of the longer ones but also a lot of the three second ads. They”ve got the right idea, they just need to dump the longer ads completely.
rlc@rlcooneI just got one of those 7 second skip videos and it locked up. There aren’t as many but they’re still there.
rlc@rlcooneDoes anyone remember the “New” Coke debacle years ago? Coke thought they knew what their customers wanted and forced it on them. When it didn’t work Coke paid attention, admitted they made a mistake, dumped the research that steered them wrong, and reverted back to what the customers really wanted. It would be nice if such wisdom existed at Rovio/Exient.
rlc@rlcooneThe developers are morons, I hope this game dies a decent death soon. It will never be fun to play again.
rlc@rlcooneWell said. I’ve been looking for another game to play, I just haven’t found one I like well enough yet.
It definitely won’t be anything by Rovio, and I won’t touch anything exient puts their psychotic fingers on either.
rlc@rlcoonePower Pork has it right, that’s like a to-do list for exient of what they need to spoil next.
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