iMob Online cracks down on the iPhone cheaters
It seems the Mafia is an honourable organisation after all
The developers of iMob Online have taken action against players who've been cheating at the online mafia iPhone game.
Or, as they put it: "For far too long, cheaters have been running wild without punishment. Their time will come to an end. I have decided to take extreme measures against cheaters and the iMobbers that have profited from them."
(This is written in character as 'The Don', the shadowy criminal mastermind at the heart of the game, if you're wondering at the tone).
The measures are contained in update 1.03 of iMob Online, which has just been released. The 7,000+ players with more than $1 billion of cash in the game will have it cut back down to $1 billion ("I realize some of you have not cheated but most of you have," say the developers).
Players with weapons that they shouldn't have owned at their character's level will see them stripped, while the developers are taking the unusual step of stopping versions 1.0, 1.01 and 1.02 of the game from working.
This is possible because the game has to connect to the iMob Online servers to be played, and the reason is to stop cheaters simply using old versions of the game to continue their nefarious habits.
As a last measure, iMob Online players who haven't cheated will get bonus respect points - the game's virtual currency - as a reward.
It might sound strange for a game focused on criminality to be concerned about cheats, but the problems faced by this title are those faced by any online iPhone game - particularly one based on bragging rights as much as iMob Online.
