RazorbackPirate
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One day I woke up to find a gopher mound in my yard. I know a gopher mound in my yard is a problem, but it's also a pain in the rear to deal with, so I ignore it. I know eventually I'll have to deal with it, but it's a pain, I got better things to do, so I let it slide.What I found most interesting about Algona’s timeline is that it would seem to bring into question just how well Inno Games is leveraging the vast data they have access to. This forum is generous in the pervasive assumption that Inno Games knows, tracks, and analyzes everything we do meticulously. If they do, their reaction time on this topic ranges between 1 and 5 years for “exploits” that should have been very easy to flag (goods growth, quest aborts, battle growth, RP growth, whatever it is they are purportedly stopping). If we stick to the assumption that they are very in tune to their users and actions, then we are left with them deciding this wasn’t a problem for the game until it was a problem for them. If that is the case, it would seem a bit disingenuous for them to try and pin this change on the sudden realization that they setup a system ripe for over-usage by its most fervent users, rather than just admit they didn’t sufficiently build the architecture to support the game mechanics and user base it has built.
Two years later my yard looks like a gopher preserve and I've got the neighbor kids driving their RC four wheel monster trucks across my lawn, the perfect off road course to test their driving skills. I can no longer ignore the problem and have no choice but to go all Caddy Shack on my lawn.
Inno knew it was a problem, they watched the problem grow, when the problem got too big, they ended the problem. Now the gophers are here complaining it's not fair because they got to camp on the lawn for so long.
Nothing disingenuous about ignoring a problem until you cannot ignore it any longer.
FWIW - I didn't notify the gophers about the change in policy. I never explained the reasons why. I never entertained their complaints. I just ended the problem.
Even so, I'm rooting for the gophers.
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