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But dude there literally were people who found out about the bug and actually DID exploit it. Just check the sub Reddit and people all over there did. So how fair is it again?

The duality of kabam. You have to gamble which end you might get into

Exploiting a bug… get banned
Exploiting a bug… get compensation

no, it’s the only option they want to do…

Moron.

I would feel somewhat bad for the team except for the fact that this is such a dumb and simple mistake. To even call this a bug is a joke. Updating a crystal is not splitting the atom or putting a man on Europa. Most likely there’s a dude who was supposed to update and double check a SQL file and they just didn’t do it.

Is this how conspiracies start?

Oh, for God’s sake: The psychoanalysis of “those who are jealous” is absolutely ridiculous.

This is a simple premise. Everyone who opened a crystal yesterday — every single person — is gonna understand what I am about to type:

I opened four Basics yesterday. I knew there was a bug, and I waited. Here’s what I got:

1. Sentinel
2. Quicksilver
3. Sorcerer Supreme
4. Venom the Duck

See the issue here?

Only one of those characters — Sentinel — is one of 21 kits that were added yesterday.

The math — math, not feelings or jealousy or psychoanalysis — says that was pretty lucky to pull that Sentinel. The rears of them — along with about, what, 125 more? 150? Were already in the Basic Pool.

No one was guaranteed to open one of those 21 kits. My opening showed how it actually was supposed to work: The odds were heavily NOT in favor of opening one of the 21 kits.

Giving people 1-to-1 compensation WHILE allowing them to keep the benefits of opening the crystals before the fix AND giving them a completely equal opportunity to get kits that they were not guaranteed to open in the first place is absurd.

That’s not “jealousy.” That’s math

Well no, they need to get comp'd but the comp is so busted that everyone else who missed out feels like a jackass.

The comp would be perfect if it was precise (ie. claw everything back and give the right ones), but they took the easiest way out and gave them such an obvious advantage that others feel horrible for waiting or not even being around.

I wouldn't say jealousy but it's a competitive game and players want similar treatment, can you blame them? If they got bugged crystals then got fixed ones later, it's pretty fair for everyone else to get bugged crystals to even things out.

I have a relatively strong roster and I opened 50 after the fix and got 5 nice first awakenings that could affect either prestige and functionality (first dupes on Cull and Quicksilver), a handful of max sig crystals that will give ascension stuff, a handful of prestige boosts, and a jumpstart on a prestige champ that was low sig (+40 on Okoye).

This wasn't just nothing.