Originally Posted by Unregistered

What compromise? If you hesitated to use the extra hearts, you lost. If you used them all, you kept your spoils. It sends the message that you should go all-in when you find an exploit.

The compromise that people who bought the deal, and didn't know or use the glitch, didn't completely lose out to people who did.

But yes, in general, when an exploit becomes widespread, I'd think that is your cue to take full advantage of it as well. When pricing errors happen in an online store, there's no prize for not jumping on that error, for example.