Dark Devices - Exploitation

[coffeerox]

In conclusion it's both sides that are at fault. The Grinders of whom road rage their fingers into oblivion, and the accusers who purposely end a FATE to spite the lot.

No, both sides are not at fault. It's the fault of the Fate grinders because they were taking advantage of the Fate in an unexpected way. You do realize that doing the Fate in that manner was against the objectives of the Fate right? Apparently not. People who ended the fate "early" were simply playing the game the right way.

Before you try to write a comeback, remember that the devs nerfed it, therefore they agreed with us that it was out of line.

[Laryndra]

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The game is an ever changing landscape. And just because it was working as intended doesn't make it balanced (And thus will be balanced later). The people arguing they were ending the fates early because its the objective are arguing for the fact they were ruining leveling for other people. There is no way around this. People value time more than anything else (at least smart people do, since it's the one thing in life you can never get back). And when they want to level quickly and efficiently as the MAJORITY of people did and one or two people decide they wanna get off on pissing them off, its not the majority of people in the wrong.

[GordonLiu]

NBefore you try to write a comeback, remember that the devs nerfed it, therefore they agreed with us that it was out of line.

Just because you can only think of one cause for the correlation you observed doesn't make it the cause. Since it wasn't being used unexpectedly (and they'd have to be the rookies of the century by the way, to not-realize that an endless group of weak enemies spawning in a single spot might get farmed for xp), as confirmed in this thread, another likely reason for the nerfing of it might be that the community at large proved too immature to handle it. As usual, whenever there is a group activity that can be ruined by others in any way, people decided to ruin it (under the pretense of white-knighting for SE), and I'm sure the ****storm of cheating and harassment reports over it demanded some sort of action.