Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-11165765-20131108091245/@comment-13129747-20131110150935

My guess would be that Mobage did some math and determined it would be better to suspend the players than to ban them outright. Figure that if they banned the accounts and people who were banned asked Apple for refunds (and we have seen that refunds are being handed out by Apple like candy on Halloween), they would get them. If, say, 1000 people used the exploit and spent even $50 or $100 on the event, that would be a fair bit of cash to give up.

So, Mobage decides to hedge their bets and just suspend these players in an effort to protect profits. It's all about the bottom line. I doubt Mobage will ban the accounts, and even if they did, I doubt it would be all of them, just the top X accounts that benefited from the exploit.

So, if you do find a hack, you don't use it just yourself, you have to spread it around to lots of people, then you just get suspended. If you're a lone wolf you get banned.