Quote Originally Posted by Deceptus View Post
So instead of going after the people abusing the system, SE decides that scorched earth is the better response and to completely change the system. This isn't the first time this has happened either.
Nope, this is how SE have always been, look at FFXI to see a huge number of examples where gameplay was made hugely annoying (or worse) to prevent cheating .. and of course, most of their attempts failed to stop cheats anyway.