I posted the following post on the official Battleon Forums on May 22nd, 2016 and it was deleted by a moderator on May 23rd, 2016:

"***DISCLAIMER: THIS POST IS NOT IN AN ENCOURAGEMENT IN ANY WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM TO ENCOURAGE PLAYERS TO USE 3RD PARTY SOFTWARE OR TRICKS TO SIMPLFY FARMING. THESE POINTS ARE NOT THE MAIN TOPIC OF DISCUSSION FOR THIS POST IN ANY WAY. THEREFORE, WHEN A MOD READS THIS PLEASE DO NOT DELETE THE POST SINCE IT BRINGS UP FAIR POINTS THAT NEED TO BE DISCUSSED. THIS POST IS QUITE NEGATIVE BUT NEEDS TO BE DISCUSSED IF AE DOES NOT WANT TO LOSE PLAYERS.

The AQW dev is displaying no sense of logic/fairness with how the endgame item farming processes are designed. In all honesty, the message that is being conveyed to players is "we really couldn't care less about what you think is fair or not". For a company that relies solely on the monetary contributions of their consumers to "keep the servers up and running" it's hilarious how much they aren't listening to the feedback and opinions of their players. Not only that, but there is a continuous reassurance of "how much [they] care about our players". At this point I can't help but to feel that I'm being lied to. Also, I don't stand alone on this point. Many of my fellow AE gamer friends feel the exact same way. If that's not enough, random people that I meet on AQW also tell me that they feel the same way.

One of the big problems with what the AQW team is doing is that they are spending an awful lot of time on fixing things people don't care about instead of fixing things people do care about. A player recently tweeted to Alina stating that the "room glitch" is something that he thinks must be delt with immeditely (link: https://twitter.com/Alina_AE/status/734497702113841152). Instead of replying to the numerous tweets that I've sent about how endgame item farming processeses should be fixed she responded to this one in a timely matter, stating that the AQW team will be dealing with this right away. That's great! Let's fix a problem instead of fixing the problem that caused this problem. Everyone knows that the only reason that the "room glitch"/DoT & Haste glitch is ever used by people is because the endgame items are impossibly hard to farm. Here's an idea: remove the glitch, then fix ALL of the endgame item quests RIGHT AFTER. People use these "glitches" and 3rd party softwares simply because they don't have 7 lifetimes to sit down in front of a computer screen and click the same buttons multiple times in order to obtain virtual decorations for thier character. By fixing these quests you would eliminate any desire for a player to use these restricted methods of obtaining items and people would actually want to play the game. I am 100% against any form of cheating that takes place in AQW, but can understand as to why people do it.

Now there seems to be quite a number of players who have what seems to be all the time in the world to farm these items, but this only represents the MINORITY of players. The majoirty of people have other daily commitments and don't have time to farm AQW items 24/7, 365, or 366, days a year. WE HAVE OTHER THINGS THAT NEED TO BE DONE AND SHOULDN'T BE PUNISHED FOR IT.

Finally, my last point is how players are censored by the developers and mods (in-game and on the forums) for expressing their oppinions. I have had multiple posts removed because "it violates the forum policies". That's great that someone wants to put a hand on peoples mouthes so they can't express how they feel about a game that they have contributed hundreds, or in some rare cases, thousands of dollars towards. Also, ALL players know that devs and mods can get any item they want with the click of a button. That's great for you! However, everyone who isn't so fortunate as to not being able to have those privileges has to endure the mind numbing process that was poorly designed. If mods and devs are so adamant about keeping the endgame farming processes the way they are they should be obliged to farm those items just like everyone else.

Now don't get me wrong. I love AQW, DF and AQ (original). They are some of my favoirte games out there. However, if I'm getting manipulated by the people who are designing these games I will simply invest my time and money into another game that I love and enjoy even more. I could list plenty of games that are incredibly sucessful and don't involve rediculous endgame item farming processes. Better yet, there are games that don't have any endgame items that I rediculously enjoy.

In conclusion, changes need to be made in order for players want to keep playing AQW and any other future major AE titles. When you own a company you need to listen to what makes your consumers happy and unhappy and constantly make changes according to their reactions.

If some mod wants to go ahead and delete this post, lock every AE associated account I own, and whatever else they can think of, I happily invite you to go ahead. I have other things in life that bring me joy, so don't think that I'm fully dependant on these games. However, know this. I'm not the only one who will continue to advocate on behalf of the entire community. We have entered an period where people no longer sit down and accept the injustices (not that this is a serious matter in the grand scheme of things) that are done to them. I can guarantee that there will be somebody else like me who will write another text wall about how AQW needs to be changed.

#MakeAQWGreatAgain"

This post was an attempt to try and convince AE to spend some time trying to fix the problems that are the cause of players using 3rd party software and/or glitches. However, the moderators on BattleOn Forums tend to censor anyone who tries to bring up a fair point about how to improve the game.

The goal of this petition is to accumulate signatures to show AE that players are against cheating, but agree that the cause of cheating is due to the poorly designed processes to obtain endgame items. This petition is also to show that players want AE to take some initiative and change all the endgame processes so that they are fair and reasonable.

Please spread the word about this petition in any way you can. Twitter would be ideal, but any other method is greatly appreciated. Also, when spreading the word please use the hashtag "#FixTheRealProblemsAE".

You support is greatly appreciated! Hopefully we, the players, will be able to make a change to AQW so that players will always play fair but have fun at the same time.