Talk:Tiki Mask/@comment-34634735-20180422231458/@comment-34634735-20180423005142

I'd like to add onto this, because I feel like some people don't quite understand what a patch does once implemented. Patches are made to games in order to squash the bad bugs that could be gamebreaking. Often times, big-time companies running extremely popular games will push out a few patches a week or month depending on how many bugs are spotted. When something is patched, there's often times no loopholes, no ways to get around the patch that is. You'd have to be incredibly skilled in coding in order to get around a bug patch. I'm not saying nobody playing this game is that smart, but keep in mind, it's mostly kids still in school that play this. The level of coding knowledge needed in order to hack into a secure game such as Animal Jam, and find the loophole around the patch is incredibly experienced (source: I've taken coding classes and taught myself about coding AND hacking, although I never use said knowledge I just...have it). IF a big corporation such as WildWorks and AJHQ were to FAIL at patching something, that would make them look pretty bad. I know to a lot of you it may seem like AJHQ does not care about the game and only cares about money, but that's an entirely different topic. The truth is, they do care about the game, or else how would they profit?? How would they keep the company afloat if the game had such gamebreaking bugs such as duping? They patched duping, there's really no way around the patch unless the players doing the supposed duping are these extremely intelligent hackers (and I'm definitely not insinuating that there are not intelligent hackers playing this game, because I know there certainly are a few). There's also the fact that, as far as I know, AJHQ hasn't made an official statement saying that duping has been going on again (much like they did last time a fiasco of duping ocurred, in which they kept us updated on the patching process and claimed it had been fixed). So really, what it boils down to is that if AJHQ had failed at patching the duplication bug, it would be incredibly detrimental to the popularity of the game (people would quit or not play as often due to their precious pixels losing value, again most people playing this are children who feel their only purpose is to collect said pixels) and thus it would crash their profits, and that is not something a big corporation would just let happen. It's business 101, folks, this stuff is basic.

'''tl;dr: It's most likely NOT duping, and probably an influx of previously inactive beta/first years accounts with Tan Tikis on them coming back to the game to see improvements, etc. because duping does not just target one specific item, duping targets multiple items of high value in order to try make a profit from the fake items. AJHQ would not let such a damaging and detrimental bug fly under their noses like that. IT'S BEEN PATCHED, LOOPHOLES FOR PATCHES ARE DIFFICULT TO MANEUVER.'''

Honestly, correct me if I'm wrong, but I've researched this stuff before in my free time. I do not see signs of a duplication bug here, I only see signs of an influx of older players returning to the game.