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People pay money to get an advantage in the game. People getting 1000+ sig stones, gold, iso etc for free is an unfair advantage. Because of Kabam's incompetence.

Those who opened the non updated crystals deserve comp, yes. But the method kabam decided on for comp creates a disparity, and contradicts their stated goal of fairness in compensation.

They could have simply offered anyone that pulled crystals early a 1:1 version of the updated crystals and everyone else a 1:1 version of the non updated crystals. Boom, no advantage to anyone.

TheyrTheyre CHOOSING to create that imbalance.

If one doesn't think it's a big deal, not much of an imbalance, thats fine. I disagree. But people claiming there isn't a disparity here are just plain wrong. It's simply a fact that the comp creates a new problem, and an imbalance, and it contradicts their stated goals of fairness.

BY FAR the best solution would have been to implement proper testing as Crashed stated, but I guess that team isn't up and running still.

you guys are all missing the point. The biggest issue is that Kabam announced the bug and more importantly announced the compensation BEFORE the bug was fixed. This means anyone lucky enough to catch the announcement was able to exploit the bug for compensation. FURTHERMORE, there is a group of summoners who were lucky enough to catch the announcement but still decided to WAIT until the bug was fixed, thus NOT exploiting the bug for compensation.

They shouldn’t have created the opportunity for summoners to knowingly exploit the bug. Thats the biggest issue. Some players are now being rewarded via compensation for exploiting while others are seemingly being punished for not exploiting. It just doesn’t set a good tone and only encourages me to exploit future bugs

I get your argument but with the recent change in prestige based awards in events like EQ, extra signature stones affect the entire game and people that get an advantage will continue to reap the rewards. The easiest solution is if anyone opened crystals in the last 24 hours, regardless of when, they get a replacement crystal. That way everyone that opened has the same opportunity to grow their account.

That's what im saying

Just spreading the word:

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This is the most lazy, path of least resistance comp Kabam has ever given out. Just throwing in the towel in terms of using any brainpower to solve the issue they created. I've been around long enough to know that the crystal would likely be FUBAR upon launch so I waited to open. My reward? I get punished to the tune of 30+ 7* crystals. And it isn't even about pulling the new champs. Kabam has made 7* sig stones a premium item in the game, and I miss out on what? The equivalent of 600 sigs stones and enough shards for a titan crystal because I didn't open at the exact time of the intended update. Just terrible.

If the comp is going to be 1:1, then give EVERY summoner a 1:1 based on how many 7* every account had one minute before the intended update and issue that many 7* shards to ALL summoners.

I opened 22 seven star crystals after work at 2 pm EST and am consequently missing out on the 1.1 crystals. The only real justification that I can see is that the amount of people who opened during the bug was relatively small. Like realistically, how many players are getting an advantage of opening an extra 10+ seven star crystals? It's got to be under a 1000 players.

I'm annoyed, I am really annoyed but I don't think this a colossal shift in the game that some people are making it out to be. I have no idea why they didn't do emergency maintenance and claw back effected crystals though. That is dumb.

LOL You know the funny thing about that, Mags? That would’ve happened for one of the few times I was livid about something, in game, enough to consider quitting. My memory might not line up totally correctly, but it might have been around the time that Act 6 was locked to 4-stars or they announced that the 5-star Featured was progression-based.

See, some people might think that this response derails the thread, but it actually doesn’t.

Think about it for a second, and what we’re talking about in this thread: Arbitrary decisions ALWAYS affect players more than the simple premise behind the arbitrary decision.

For instance: When Kabam locked Act 6 to 4-stars, the IDEA made sense. Hit pools were too small, and OP synergies aren’t what the game was designed to be in spirit. Made sense.

But what happened in reality is that it gave people with larger/better rosters an advantage in advancing through the content, even though someone with a smaller roster had done nothing wrong prior to that arbitrary decision.

See what I am getting at?

Awarding 1-to-1 compensation SOUNDS like it makes sense. But when you peel back a few layers, it’s actually an arbitrary decision that will give some players an advantage over other players who have done nothing wrong.

That shouldn’t happen.

Kabam has said recently that one of the things they are trying to hold as a value statement is “Do you want it done quickly or do you want it done right.”

1-to-1 compensation is quick.

It’s not right.

I am so down with this type of compensation that I do not know if I want to play this game in the future. I do not stop now, but I've been thinking about it for a while. This is one more punch, one more nail in the coffin of this game for me. I am so desperate that I am working so hard to improve my prestige, counting sig stones and planning rank ups. And then people who opened tens of 7* crystals and who got hundreds of free sig levels, will get doubled amount and will increase their prestige even higher.
So dumb solution for compensation. So unfair for prestige growing and moving some people above other literally for free.

already loathing banquet. I am not one who can open crystals right when they go live… so I am guaranteed to be miss out on the banquet crystal bug compensation. I guess those in that group are just permanent losers