[quote name='VioletArrows']How fast is fast to you? Like I said, I tested myself at about 85wpm (at least for the 3-5 letter words), and I get stopped at least once every puzzle. On top of that, they're still using those shit captchas that are impossible to see and I'm not even truly colorblind, so I end up messing up 1-2 of them before getting one I can actually see. I guess I'm a bot, hurrhurr.
Funny how you guys are so quick to side with this game when they stand to profit more by calling people cheaters arbitrarily and withholding prizes so players have to start all over again and take even longer using their garbage search engine.[/quote]
I've taken a good look around all communities of Live Search, including the bad ones, and it seems to me that majority of those people get every prize they order, meanwhile, us legit players get denied front right and center. Why? Because we type too fast, and dont want to be sitting in front of our comouters for 2 hours a day. Numerous times, have I considered going to that side, but even then there's less of a chance of getting stuff. If you play legit and fast, its still always going to be 50/50, but that decreases to 50% probability of prize getting.
In short: Its fully obvious they're letting bad people get their stuff, and they're aware of it, too. If a bad person gets one item, they'll go for another, because they've been made aware their bad system works, and will thereby exploit it. Assume that someone plays Chicktionary, or does bad things for it, that's 35 words to guess, 35 searches a game. You need to play 50 games to get 1000 points, so that's 1750 searches a day from a unique user, and assume said user wants a zune, times that by 38.5 days, it's 67,375 searches. Whether or not they send stuff, it's win win for them. Usually, if someone goes for a Zune and they get shot down, they'll either give up, or go for it again, therefore netting MS another 67,000 searches.
I don't know where I was going with this.