I personally enjoy the game. I've also seen major gaming sites and magazines giving it a 7.0/10 or higher. A complete disaster of a game wouldn't receive that high of a score.
Anyways, as I said before, it's 100x easier to make a trainer for a cracked version of a game. This is why you see more options in other groups trainers. We have to work with the protection intact which many times includes GFWL type anti-cheat scanning that we must defeat in order to make it work with the legit versions. h4x0r couldn't do that if his life depended on it. This is why he always has to wait for someone to crack the games. We could make a +500 for this game using the cracked version, but we wouldn't have the time to put those options in the legit version of the trainer and it's not exactly fair to give pirates more options in their trainers than legit owners. We don't condone piracy and we sure as heck don't want to give people MORE of a reason to get the pirated version vs. the legit game.
You'll probably also find that h4x0r's trainer for this game (among many others) also works for the enemy AI. Not exactly what I would call a "quality" release, but hey, you get what you pay for I guess.
We will continue making quality trainers that support as many versions as possible, but we will ALWAYS work with the LEGIT version FIRST as we refuse to leave those people out in the cold while the software pirates get to enjoy trainers that legit users cannot.
We are currently working on new options for this game as time allows but please remember that we also have tons of other games and updates that must be supported.
Well, people have different tastes, that's how it is.
Regarding piracy: if I wouldn't (and I sure as hell wouldn't) buy the game, what so bloody ever, EA will not suffer anything from me downloading it. There will be no losses compared to not buying the game. None. Zero. The only thing changed is me - I've got a cultural enrichment. (Although I'd never call C&C4 that, but this is just in theory anyway.)
I personally see C&C4 as a total annhilation of the original C&C games (been playing since C&C1, and Dune2 before that - those games still have a large place in my heart), since it removes everything that made the series what it is. It is on those "ideological" grounds I choose to boycott C&C4 totally. The only reason I'd personally see for playing the game is to see how the story ends - and I could just as well just see the cutscenes on Youtube to find out, or read them on some webpage.
I fully agree with you on h4x0r's work, at least on the factual things. (I will not go as far as to lynch the person, as he is still a human being, like the rest of us.)
As for the Legit > Pirated prioritizing - that I understand and support to 100%, pirates should sure as hell not enjoy any benefits retail users don't. (That's why DRM fails so badly, add some extra value to the retail version of the game that the pirates can't enjoy, instead. Lots of possible things to do here, controlling the people actually paying for the game isn't a solution.)
I am not pro-piracy, neither am I anti it, due to the fact that it can't be seen so simply. It's a grey zone, as with any ethical and philosophical matters.
Gotta say I love the debate, how it brings out the best (mostly argumenting techniques and intellectual debate manners) and the worst (trolling, blindly defending/attacking, threats and violence) in people. From a third person perspective it's really interesting - and I hope there isn't any hard feelings towards me as one of your customers.
Damn it'd be nice to be a ghost, following all possible angles of the technological development without having to bother getting involved in it.
Cheers, fellow cheaters.