Facebook Ends a Bonus Collector ! End of FGS – Friendly Gaming Simplifier !

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Not Zynga or game companies that are the cause of the end of FGS but Facebook itself.

Is this a first of the numerous bonus collectors that have the ability to collect/gift auto.

Following is quoting Flies the developer of FGS.

Source: http://blog.fgs.rzadki.eu/2012/01/end-of-fgs.html

I am really sorry to announce that time of FGS project has finished. After 1,5 year of providing users with a service that was meant to improve their gaming experience, I am shocked that this project ends in such an upleasant situation as I am forced to stop it for good.

On the day of 6th January 2012 02:05 GMT+1, I have received a legal note from Perkins Coie attorney company, which is representing Facebook Inc., based in Menlo Park, California.

According to this note I must follow all of the below demands „In order to avoid further escalation of this matter”:
- Stop offering the FGS Browser Software, or any other software that interferes with Facebook’s intended limitations or impairs the proper working of Facebook,
- I must cease and not access the Facebook site(s) and/or services for any reason whatsoever.

Due to the fact that I am in no position of negotiating this terms (and can’t afford the escalation of this matter) I am going to follow these demands.

On the 6th January 2012 20:00 GMT+1, I will:
– remove FGS website,
– remove all materials connected with FGS (source codes, backups etc),
– will add a big permanent notice on top of FGS with a link to this note,
– log out from my Facebook account for the very last time.

As of this time, sending any messages to my facebook account will be pointless, since I will never ever reply to them. I was permanently presumed as an unwelcome/dangerous person to Facebook infrastructure and any of my activity on Facebook’s site, platform, or network will be regarded as unauthorized access to its protected computer network, which enforses legal actions against me, if I deny to follow those restrictions.

I would like to thank all the people that were supporting this project for such a long time, I am really devastated with this situation, while my one and only intention was to help people without asking anything in return.

If you ever need to contact me, even if to say hi, you are free to contact me via those sites:
– Google plus: https://plus.google.com/u/0/106132395261281944651/posts
– Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/fliesPL
– Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/flies/

Or even to drop me an email to: flieshunterpl@gmail.com

Once again I would like to thank all those people that cared for this project and were supporting it all the way, for better or worse. I had a real fun learning something new, improving my programming skills, while making true new friends in the process. Too bad it ends this way…

I hope that we will be able to keep in touch somehow or cross our paths again in the different projects someday – that I wish for both me and you.


Best regards,
flies

cegamers note: FGS was widely used among players of various zynga games, it fetched the game as wall feeds and allowed manual as auto collecting of the rewards/bonusses. It was one of the so called better bonus collectors. Our question is now, will Facebook shut down all bonus collectors ? Also these on FB as app ? Or is this simply because it was a standalone app not inside Facebook.

What do you think of this action by Facebook ? Do you like it that they shut down a bonus collector ? Do you think they should shut down all bonus collectors ? Let us know 8

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  • http://www.facebook.com/mlfeldt Amanda Feldt

    FGS was a wonderful extension that was definitly NOT a Cheat. It just made thing simple. I hat that Facebook has decided to attack Flies and make him shut it down. Bad Facebook.

  • Mark Baken

    If you play 3 to 5 different games on facebook, and have to fetch items for em, its was already hard. Next to that the new news feed is crap as hell, it doesn’t show all feeds, and i dunno which feeds i had already clicked, the FGS app, really sorted all the feeds to the games for me. It saved me a lot of time, and gave me the possibility to actually play the games. Since i have wrist problems i now have a lot of time saved aswell.

  • LovemyFGS

    Before you “holla” maybe you should know what you’re talking about first.  FGS is NOT a bonus grabber, this is all manual.  There is not an option to make this an auto collect like the apps that are on FB & still allowed.  Collecting a bonus that is 20 hours old is not cheating, it’s taking something that is still available.

  • FightBackNow

    I think it is an incredibly shortsighted move on the part of Facebook!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rick-Shropshire/100001870367386 Rick Shropshire

    RE: Facebook bans browser plugin FGS, and its developer

    One
    small developer of a game called Puzzled Hearts made a special trip to
    FB home offices in California pleading his case for the removal of FGS
    in mid December. His name is Sergey Smirnov.
    I have the largest
    Puzzled Hearts group on FB and was negotiating between Sergey and Flies
    to keep everything running smooth, especially for our handicapped
    members, when Sergey shut off any communication and would not consider
    any attempt at working with Flies regarding the use of FGS in his games
    (Puzzled Hearts, Charmed Gems and Puzzled Dogs). Everyone wants to blame Zynga, but the blame belongs to Sergey Smirnov who himself uses FGS to keep up with his own games.
    Sergey Smirnov even added patches to his games trying to block FGS just
    creating more and more bugs in his games that he refused to fix or even
    recognize. He put messages on his games that players had used all their
    allocated FB channels and were blocked from the games anywhere from 30
    minutes to 24 hours, alluding this as being a FB block. Sergey
    Smirnov has banned numerous players from his games for disagreeing with
    him, criticizing the performance, or lack there of, of his games. I
    assisted Sergey in the beginning from a players standpoint letting him
    know what we were experiencing and he addressed it. He found out about
    FGS through my group, which was never a secret, and immediately started
    his attact on FGS and Flies. I worked with Flies since the beginning
    of my group on fixes needed for Puzzled Hearts, Charmed Gems and he was
    always quick to make those fixes. This is but one battle and I will
    see the war finished and do everything in my power to save FGS even if
    it means flushing Sergey Smirnov and his games down the toilet where
    they currently belong. His game numbers are dropping daily as word
    spreads on FB about what he alone is responsible for and the many
    handicapped game players he alone has harmed by his selfish actions.
    When Sergey backs down and unbans the thousands of players he’s banned
    and FGS is back up allowing everyone to play on an even field, I will
    once again support Puzzled Hearts, Charmed Gems and Puzzled Dogs. Until
    that day, our protest continues and I ask everyone playing those games
    to block them and let their voices be heard at how outraged we are due
    to his self serving actions. Just setting the record straight and working hard on helping Flies get everything reinstated. Virginia Moody

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rick-Shropshire/100001870367386 Rick Shropshire

    “Holla” doesnt have enough neighbors because nobody wants to be friends with someone who talks crap and doesnt know what theyre talking about. If only people like this were smart enough to realize they need to keep their mouth shut and save face, maybe even learn. Think before you speak and know what you are talking about. Just because you think something doesnt make it fact! “Holla” at ignorance!

  • Patstoltz

    FGS was NOT a cheat! Learn what you’re talking about before condemning anything! It merely showed you what had been posted & then you had to manually select which you wanted…IF they were still available..the only thing “automated” that it did was to automatically return gifts to the people you accepted things from!

  • Chelrule

    Facebook wants more of its subscribers gone and Zynga wants its players to develop tendonitis. Period.

  • Linda

    is this why the app disappeared from my wall I can not find it anywhwere

  • Gothicnitro

    i gotta say that this was with out a doubt the best collector on facebook and i sincerely hope that facebook and zynga soon realise this as they have made a grave mistake removing this app. i know alot of people will now be looking elsewhere for their enjoyment

  • Darkangels

    well NOW it is time to QUIT all games I only added a heap of games to my account so that I could help out my friends who play certain games by using this which I don’t give a rats ass what anyone thinks it is NOT a damn cheat program. HOPE you moaners out there are happy now because WHO is going to sit there for many hours going through their news feed looking for older posts or even your own wall I sure as hell won’t be I don’t have the time to do that on all the games that I play and help on.
    LOL now I can just see all the games on Facebook dying good one Zuck for doing that you moron.

  • Cathy 46

    WHOOPEEEEE!!!! about time this was removed.. facebook is a social site not a money grabbing site. i want my neighbours to know me and respect me and my friends/.family. this application was taking the fun out of going into my friends and neighbours accounts and leaving funny little notes. this is a social thing to do, not run a frigging collector that takes your posts from genuine friends and family members. when a post tells you there is only 3 likes and 5 likes will end the pickup, people think they are going to be successful in getting the coin that is there. all these people who want to STEAL from their neighbours, should go to another social website. leave our facebook site to our friends and families alone. let the new year begin. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!     cathy m

  • Darkangels

    Well NOW it is time to QUIT all FB games I only added a heap of games to my account so that I could help out MY friends who play certain games by using this application which I don’t give a rats ass what anyone thinks it is NOT a effin cheat program. HOPE you moaners out there are happy now because WHO is going to sit there for many hours going through their news feed looking for older posts or even your own wall to help YOU out good luck in that LOL…I sure as hell won’t be I don’t have the time to do that on all the games that I play and help on which I don’t even get any FB news feed.
        LOL now I can just see all the games on Facebook dying good one Zuck for doing that you moron you suck douche bag people like me rely on these applications in helping out our fb friends.

  • Darkangels

    HEY HOLLA good luck playing the game by your lonesome you moaner, it is not a cheat program stupid tard.

  • Darkangels

    you’re an idiot!!!!

  • Darkangels

    I agree 100% they will soon learn when no one helps them LOL

  • Darkangels

    Thanks time to block those applications (puzzled hearts, charmed gems and puzzled dogs)

  • Casperthealien

    And i am damn sure you have a bonus collector one way or another, I am sure you dont sit there and look thru every listing just for an award that belongs to your game. unless your selfish and dont help your friends or neighbors and just look for what you gain from it 

  • http://www.facebook.com/jojojousa Jonelle Ohrn

    Wish I had a chance to try it out…

  • http://www.facebook.com/jojojousa Jonelle Ohrn

    I hate that everyone feels they have to police the internet. 

  • R_kriegar

    “The way they were meant to be played”? Seriously?

    Which time was that? When they first started, or after they started, and multiplied, all these crazy “add a thousand neighbors, and spam the hell out of them” stuff?

    Frankly, i do not now, nor did I then, wish to have MY gameplay revolve around adding so-called “friends”, and spamming people to death in order to play a game in MY (private) spare time. The entire premise is a spammers paradise, frankly, and it needs to be done away with.

    I want to build what I want to build, and plant what I WANT to plant- AS THE GME WAS ORIGINALLY INTENDED, as you so adroitly claim. But then, I see YOU are just another one of those persons who wish to dictate to everyone ELSE what andhow THEY play their game, correct?

  • Robert Kriegar

    Cheating indeed. I never ASKED to be forced to spam/beg everyone in the entire internet world in order to play these games in the first place. The only “CHEATING” involved here, frankly, is the forced SPAMMING!

    go back to bed.

  • http://www.facebook.com/robert.kriegar Robert Kriegar

    Wah wah wah with your “likes”. It’s not the collector that creates the problem, but the game that requires you to cultivate so many so-called”friends” to participate fully-and SPAM them to death.

    Just because YOU view the site as what YOU “think” it is, does NOT mean that this is the view, or the experience, that OTHERS are seeking. Come out of the dark ages, and try to realize that everyone does not necessarily share the same vision of the world, or Facebook, that YOU may have for your own jolly little self!

  • http://www.facebook.com/robert.kriegar Robert Kriegar

    It’s not “cheating”, and it is YOUR opinion. At least 30,000 OTHER people disagree with you, and your slant on this. Surprising, isn’t it, that you aren’t the only person in the world with a biased opinion???

  • http://www.facebook.com/robert.kriegar Robert Kriegar

    Maybe we should form a group who support FGS, another who support “snags”, and then ditch all these people who cry about “cheating”. CHEATING, like their little cliques full of strangers and all.

  • http://www.cegamers.com cegamers

    the extension is still working till there will be updates at FB, the developer will not update FGS anymore to fix issues due to changes on FB or by Game Devs

  • Robertwadejr38

    LOL, I love all you lazy crybabies carrying on about some stupid program. GET A LIFE FGS WAS JUST A PROGRAM TO AID OTHER PROGRAMS AND IF YOU NEEDED IT TO PLAY THE OTHER PROGRAMS THEN MAYBE YOU SHOULDN’T BE PLAYING THOSE PROGRAMS IN THE FIRST PLACE!!! I am glad he and his program are gone.

  • Suzannet67

    wow this is crazy…started using autonbonus collector on f/b as took me 2 hours just to wade thru my wall to help my friends…i was getting things done and helping others and myself now there is obviously issues here too as f/b wont allow likes and the collecting is looking at old fees…this is not cheating but playing maybe addicted to the games but if they have so many goals to complete cant do it in the time frames..anyway enough whingeing perhaps we should all get real lives and hit the parks with our family and friends f/b you may be on dangerous ground as this is just bullying now…

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1040040992 Ted Joffs

    To put it simply, this was an outside of FB program that was moving FB’s end user base AWAY from FB without paying FB for advertising space.  Had this been a FB App, they would have been fine with it because it makes more user ad impressions and gives FB more money…period.

  • http://www.facebook.com/TediBareWITHclotheson Bare O Nass

    AS LONG AS THE SOFTWARE LIKE’ S WHAT IT TAKES, I LIKE IT

  • Bella Aifam

    thank you for that information Ag-ms-2007.  All of this has become very personal to so many people I am sure.  It is so important to understand what has really happened or is happening with this. Thank you for stepping in and in lighting us on this situation.

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