There is certainly no deception involved, in terms of the technical issues I think its fair to say that you guys have had as much information as was possible throughout. Anyone who was reading my posts during these issues is basically as well informed as anyone here (in fact some of the team were reading the threads to keep up so as not to bother the technical folk
). I think we are as open and forthcoming with the information relating to this issue as was possible.
As I said in the other threads the intention was to provide the increased exp on all outside playfields, and from what we could tell it did activate and was working. Where the problems arose was in two fold, firstly that it was applied before the other bonus exp was calculated which confused matters slightly and was capped by the exp hard caps (if you are already getting max exp on a kill no amount of bonus will go beyond it).
It's unfortunate that I wasn't able to communicate that clearly before the weekend, and that we had some issues activating it, but there was certainly no evil intent or conspiracy, just a genuine note of thanks for your patience during the recent issues.
In future if we plan to do these things I think we will wait for an update and make a buff or item based solution for awarding bonuses like this, as that will ensure that everyone will be able to benefit without any confusion.