Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-10485198-20130626131408/@comment-10726652-20130626203702

65.246.63.68 wrote: It is pretty funny if you think about it. Most of you all spent hundreds of dollars for virtual-flash -game-cellphone-collectible-cards and are now shocked and mad when they change the rules and perceived "value" of the virtual cards? Write it off as lesson learned and move on.

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And it will be a few months before the realize the scam and rinse/repeat. Firstly, let me preface this by saying that I'm someone who's *not* spend a tonne of money on this game. I've dropped £1.99 that I've spread out over three episodes. So your statement isn't directed at me and I'm not writing this because I'm worked up about anything you've directed at me personally.

But people, and particularly customers, are perfectly entitled to voice their opinion in the way a product is evolving. They're also entitled to express their opinion that something is too expensive, or without sufficient value.

In fact it doesn't matter if people have been naive or gullible and been ripped off - the guilty party remains the party that played the con or overcharged.

As you yourself point out it's a bit of a "scam". So telling people to just take the hit and move on effetively lays the blame at the victims and allows the scammers to keep perpetrating it, and is particularly heartless. With apologies to anyone who has been a victim, if I can use a strong example; it's like telling a rape victim that she dressed suggestively and to just learn her lesson and move on.

Even if you're not paying money to play this game, you could argue that simply being part of the community makes you morally contributory, because creating an active community in game during events and on a Wiki page helps foster the impression on new players that there is life in the game, and therefore it is worth playing and further falling to the perpetuating scam that you talk about.

People need to grow a voice; which is what the people on this thread are trying to do.