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Biggest complaint from me is the inconsistency between this compensation and when Zola was missing from the titan pool. They never made everyone whole for the Zola bug and even gave people a week time frame to get in on the compensation but for this they’ll only gave a portion of the players a compensation. Just doesn’t seem fair to me.

I get why they did it, but kabam just gave a group of summoners double 7 star crystals for free. I’m not mad at them, I’m glad they got great compensation for a kabam mistake. You have to understand it’s hard to know that if you opened all of your crystals 5-10 minutes earlier you could have had a 2 for 1 haul. Seriously though, I’m happy kabam helped those affected.

@KabamPinwheel @Kabam (Osaurus) Rex agreed on the above. The Zola Titan issue didn’t warrant compensation even remotely close, but the window to receive compensation was as wide as can be to allow the entire realm to take part of.
Now that basically the same issue happens again, the window for comp is as small as can be and the comp is as grand as can be.
Plus Titans were supposed to be a more premium item than the Basic.
Feels unbalanced…..

makes too much sense. Clearly Kabam is incapable of such fairness or general equity such as this…

NGL: I was shocked they decided to 1-to-1 this. I have been here since Week 1. I have seen everything that has happened in this game. The most time I have ever taken off was maybe three weeks during the month Ghost Rider was released. Other than that, I log in and do something nearly every day.

I don’t want the players who opened before the hot fix went live to be disadvantaged. Not at all.

But Sig levels matter, dupes matter, Titan shards matter. Every massive opening affects the game.

I am just surprised that of all the options that were available, and probably none were great, this was where they landed

Marvel contest of " who exploits bug faster".

You're genuinely stupid if you can't see how this impacts the game

Seeing this and being reminded of this situation just makes me angrier. What was our compensation at that time? A single crystal and then it was opened up to all people to get that same free crystal compensation for opening the corrected crystal? They should extend this compensation window to all of us who weren’t able to open immediately and give us the same chance to basically double any crystals we open. They set the precedent before.

Kabam going for the nuclear option

The premise of your comment is: some Marvel characters are more popular than others, and Kabam should lean into that sentiment by emphasizing them in MCOC. The biggest problem with that idea is that Marvel itself would oppose it.

I suspect most people assume that Marvel itself would also want to emphasize their most popular characters in the games based on their IP. But the opposite is closer to the truth. Marvel can make a Spiderman game any time it wants. Marvel can make an X-Men game any time it wants. But Marvel owns a huge IP containing tens of thousands of characters, and it is counter-productive for them to emphasize the few dozen that are the most popular. That would actually make their portfolio less valuable, not more valuable.

Any game or other work based on the Marvel IP has to utilize their most popular characters because those are the signature pieces of art: they uniquely identify something as a Marvel property. But it is in Marvel's best interests to use those works to showcase the other 49,990 characters as well. My understanding is that while Marvel doesn't directly dictate which characters Kabam puts into the game, they do strongly encourage (for some definition of "encourage") Kabam to leverage the diverse portfolio of options.

By the same token, they can't just make all the most popular characters "OP" to the neglect of the others. This would also be against Marvel's best interests to suggest there's just a few important Marvel characters and the rest are unimportant trivialities.

Once upon a time, Wolverine was some random side character; his first ever limited series comic book was in the bargain bin for 25 cents. The MCU started with Captain America, Thor, and Iron Man because Marvel didn't have the rights to make movies based on their most popular characters at the time. Marvel doesn't know who the next Wolverine or Blade or Iron Man or Deadpool will be, but it behooves them to not just focus on who's popular now.