Lately, we added an additional reason for showing the red text This version has been hacked. It lead to an interesting conversation I want to share with you. I’ll refer to the sender as Mr. X.

*Mr. X wrote:
Good day!

Dear developers,
Please, remove the message on top “This version has been hacked” – it
interferes with play. Please remove this message.

Thanks!*

Maybe just another hacker. Let’s reply in case it’s a bug.

*Lobby wrote:
Have you hacked the game?*

*Mr. X wrote:
No*

Ok, in case he’s serious that would be bad. Let’s try to find a explanation.

*Lobby wrote:
Where do you have the game from?
May you send me an ingame screenshot, please?*


*Mr. X wrote:
I had it hacked, but long ago stopped doing this, because I am for fair play. And generally remove the graphic, it prevents play, because the game has long been played since its open beta test the first versions. I would not want to spoil the attitude to the game that message, because they do not want to throw the game.*

Ok, so he’s a hacker after all. The text is either shown if it’s hacked copy or if your diamonds come from a “dark” source. So he still has (probably a lot) of “dark” diamonds but calls it “fair play”.

*Lobby wrote:
So I assume you have an huge amount of diamonds from these old days. If that’s the case, I wouldn’t call it fair play. You have to either spend your diamonds or reset the game.*

*Mr. X wrote:
So I spend them at super-speed, and I bought a lot for real money. Please, remove the message, I beg you.*

He still wants me to remove the message, so I assume he has way too much diamonds to spend 🙂
Would be great if he spent real money, but do you remember the boy who cried wolf? Let’s check this.

*Lobby wrote:
I want to confirm that you bought diamonds for real money. To do so, I would like to have the order id you got after the purchase.*

If somebody would have bought that much diamonds that he would get the hacked message we would be rich. But unfortunately, that’s not the case.

*Mr. X wrote:
So you can remove this message or not? You just tell me Yes or No.*

So, no order id? That’s sad 😥

What do you think? How should we handle such people and is there any reason to remove the hacked message?