Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-9890645-20131112205748/@comment-11490363-20131215193358

CforKat wrote: I dont understand what your talking about here Ran, I'm starting to get the feeling you are talking about a different loophole or bug than what is being discussed. Its not like there was a glitch that some people accidentally or otherwise "found". We are talking about the matchmaking being broken and pairing us with dead decks. How could anyone avoid that? I mean were we supposed to say ok the game is broken today, its too easy, lets not play? All I know is that when I started, I was getting ALL dead decks. I left for a few hours, and came back and suddenly ALL the decks were now on par with my deck. Is it possible that it is just the matching algorithm doing its thing? Possible yes, but highly improbable considering the huge shift that happened not over time while I was playing but at some fixed point in time while I was offline.

Sounds like they fixed a bug real-time. ESPECIALLY considering that in all previous PvPs, the first round always had moderate to high end decks EXCEPT for the very first PvP, where they were all junk. The evidence highly suggests that they did not intend it, and it was pretty obvious if you compare to the previous PvP events. Those that honestly did not know can claim ignorance, but given how smart the people around here are, I am sure most people knew but just chose to take advantage of it.

I don't even know how far the dead decks went, I never went past a streak of 6 so I could just farm. But even at that level it was obvious to me, and it confirmed it when I logged back in after an extended absence and suddenly all the decks were much stronger.

As for your last question, it depends on your level of integrity and the TOS. If the TOS says not to exploit bugs, then yes, stop playing. If not then you have a moral decision, are you the kind of person that tries to take advantage of or exploit errors in your favor, then sure, go ahead and do it. For a game where people are paying money, I would feel bad doing that if I cost them a position on the leaderboard. I always go back if someone did not charge me the correct amount for something, its just who I am. Don't get me wrong, I love a deal and haggling, but not ripping people off. IF I hated Mobage so much that I wanted to steal from them and tried to justify it, I would just walk away. It is not worth the strain on my soul. As Yoda says: "let go of your anger".

That said, I did farm for a few hours, but I am not really into this game anymore, I just log on when I have nothing better to do, which is rarely now. I thought about milking it and just doing as many long streaks as I could, but again, I chose not to because it was obvious and also because I can't be bothered to really spend a lot of time in this game anymore.