Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
When I turned it back on and submitted my score, I got credited for every attempted submission of that score. Hundreds of points and gems and whatever it was the game ran on. So I did it again deliberately a few times. I got all the characters and skills unlocked in a couple of days instead of weeks or months of play.

In this case, it affected nobody except myself (and the company throwing out cheap mobile games intended to suck you into paying for extra credits). But it was definitely an exploit. The fact that I found it by accident doesn't change that.
Of course it was an exploit. Not because of turning off the game or anything, but because it used an in-game flaw to achieve something that the developers did not intend. You submitted the same score multiple times through the flaw of the IN-GAME code, the flaw of it saving the scores that are not submitted properly...but also stacking them. The exploit begun before you even turned the game off.

That and this are two different things. Complain all you want, but "semantics" are extremely important in any kind of clash of interests. Semantics are what can make or break a court case. You cannot dismiss them just cause you think that "If they do something that I don't want them to do, it must be an exploit". I never said that what they are doing is "good". But I did say that technically speaking it is not an exploit, therefore they cannot be banned for what they did up till now. It will become an exploit if the developers will find a way to deal with the problem (like counting the run-down of the cutscene even when someone is disconnected) and players will somehow manage to dodge that, because at that point they should not have normally access to the system they are using now.