No it's not, Gree can do whatever they please and change what they said or did at anytime for any reason without telling players, It says so in the ToS that you agreed to and you don't have a say other wise. It's not fraud when you signed all your rights away. Again you are the one responsible for your money, you spend it, you buy gold, you use it when you want to, so when you spend that gold on a health refill you know for 100% that it's going to refill your health "fraud" would be like, having that not do what it says it does. So more to my point, spending "real money" on this game is no way connected to the ranking system. The gold used is for health refills not ranking and yes, in the end using health refills would help you kill higher bosses but isn't fraud.
I would like you to
read this it's a good article on freemium games it basically shows and tells how people lost money and things developers did to take it. What I'm saying is you (The Player) have nothing to say or complain about because everything Gree is doing is legal and fine you gave them that right so no matter what goes down, Gree is 100% free from any and everything considered wrong doing. There is no fraud, no breaking of the Google or Apple ToS, nothing, nada, YOU ARE DEAD TO RIGHTS. Companies have been doing it for years and get away with it and there isn't one thing you can do either.
Its simple, don't tie. Gree left you that option therefore; it's not "fraud" and definitely not
falsely leading players into believing that they can achieve the deciding factor of a tie breaker by spending more money because there is a way to always rank higher than other syndicates so even if this was to get "official" it is considered "fair" by all parties. (And that doesn't mean the players of Crime City) I know all this because I was once there and thought people couldn't do that either but you have to read the fine print it's all there.
On a side note the only reason for posting is when you said
"MAJOR ToS violation with Google and iOS" as a fellow developer (Not working for Gree) I dislike comments like that, they only cause panic and stir the pot when that isn't or shouldn't even be the case. It's a low blow, like people with the whole
PEWDIEPIE "SCANDAL"!! To quote him "it's right there, right there" the rules and evidence were always available on Gree's rights and they never stepped out of them. I don't care that the rankings are unfair or unjust to some people, life is unfair but you learn to deal with it and or move on. If you want to accuse Gree of something don't use words like "fraud" or "violation" that just isn't the case. If I remember correctly raid boss has been "unfair" for months now (since the change in January) and what if Gree said "Hey! the older your syndicate is the lower you'll rank in the case of a tie. We think this is a good idea because the underdog never gets a chance. Here's 100 gold or a refund of health packs for your trouble." like they basically did for the whole Epic Boss health glitch not too long ago, which by the way they did what they wanted and never changed it back. You'd most likely be jumping or making new syndicates to rank higher in a tie for every Raid Boss. You got your crappy reward, then what? huh? what would you all do? you all would be complaining about something else like too many IP mods and how people spent so much money on those...oh wait...that already happened, was that fraud too? Those are my views like them or not I won't get offended but it's dirty pool when stuff like that is being said when the main purpose is to hurt a company or developer. I'm sorry but that is something you don't ever want to be on the receiving end of.
Originally Posted by Vile Lynn
