User blog comment:Helios Ex/Mobile: oh yeah.../@comment-26368258-20151209170545/@comment-27374562-20151210021336

Shouldn't have to hack a game to get any sort of enjoyment of pay-off from it. Skill, time, and effort should, ultimately, be the only REAL factors. The fact that this is not the case with $A$4 is evidence of bad design.

And Colin, I think that was his point: why waste the ticket if you didn't get anything worthwhile? But you didn't get to keep any of the stuff you got in that NM Match, so it was a zero-sum exploit and didn't constitute "cheating;" and since you weren't making the code do something that it wasn't originally designed to do, it's certainly not "hacking."

My guess? NK left if that way intentionally because they knew how unstable and crashy their app really is, and they didn't want to receive e-mails from pissed-off players who had their tickets burned by NK's crap code. But since that could cost them in terms of sales -- instant-gratification types buying BLACK Boxes from the Store after they had wasted all of their tickets on crap matches -- they decided to "fix" it. Premium NM tickets and Weapons are right around the corner, mark my words. NK is not in the gaming business, at least not on the Mobile side; they're in the business of psychological manipulation.

- MTR