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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

Worst decision ever by Kabam…
If you weren't online in the 45 affected minutes and/or made the decision to actually wait for a fix you essentially just lost out on the easiest chance ever to double 10-50x 7 Star Crystals…

If they are going to offer 1:1 on crystals opened in the timeframe, they should also offer 600 titan shards and 20 signature stones for every crystal opened after for everyone else.

The base pool update is small compared to the overall size and the people who waited shouldn't miss out on all the sig stones and titan shards a 1:1 compensation will give.

and it’s bugged. If you use a backstage ticket you can’t actually play as it won’t let you enter or exit.

Honestly this guys are just clowning us at this stage.

This is a very unfair and unbalanced solution, and leaves everyone who did not open Basic 7 stars in this window massively disadvantage especially with the current chase for prestige and sigs. The only viable solution is a rollback of all crystals opened and then replaced or give everyone in game the same amount of replacement crystals of the person who opened the most during the impacted period.

The best way to do the comp would have been to claw back everything and give the people their crystals back.

And before you all get on me for this. Kabam has shown in the past that when theyre serious enough and care enough they absolutely have the ability to do this. It doesnt matter if it would be alot of work or not. It's a position they put themselves in and they should suffer the consequences. Not the playerbase

Another reason why having a job sucks. Couldn't open at the beginning because work stuffs... usually these comp & rollback things don't bother me, but this does

Its not about entitlement, its about the unfair advantage.

My original post details advantages obtained, but one thing i forgot to include is that The number of Titan Shards are basically doubled for anyone who did open now.

Also when Mike first pinged in the discord that the crystals were bugged, someone who wasnt even planning on opening any crystals, or not opening their full amounts worth, could've read the ping and at that moment just opened everything.

Thats analagous to us knowing a side quest has a bug for an exploit, and once awareness is raised, players then jump in on it to benefit. But with this type of compensation, those players who took advantage of the crystals being bugged actually get rewarded instead, and like i said this sets the wrong model for when a future fiasco occurs.

Everyone’s new banquet plan - open everything immediately. I am sure many will be setting alarms in different time zones to not miss out.

That’s the game now: Marvel Contest of who can spam Kabam’s mistakes to get maximum rewards.