Board Thread:LOC General Discussion/@comment-108.35.154.66-20130911165857/@comment-76.79.134.150-20140130233626

Hi, my counter argument is this. It takes about $10 real world money (1000 gems) to purchase 15pp in a potion pack. For card packs, you can almost guarrantee to get a pwr18 UR reg if you are willing spend 30000 gems or so, which is about $100 worth. A pwr18 UR reg is usually worth at least 30k pp on iOS now (if not more). That means, I can either spend $100~$200 worth of gem to get 30k pp return via card pack, or I can spend $20000 worth of gem on potion pack, just to get the same number of pp return.

Now, fake cloned gem or not, if Applibot suddenly get an influx of somebody making gem purchases worth $20000, you can bet that's gonna raise an alarm (and probably some  very disappointed developers). On the other hand, people making $100~$200 worth of gem purchases on card pack is a lot more normal, and likely gonna fly under the radar.

Also, in either cases, the pp and the cards purchased on the cloned gems are legit, with legit tagged id and so. The cloned gems are consumed, but the purchased products are legitately manufactured.

So my argument is still this, that the cloners are not cloning pp via cloned gems. I still believe that the current inflation of pp in the market is due to some other direct mechanism of pp-cloning.