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You aren't affected by this.

Little story from an alliance mate, he opened 40+ crystals. Pulled 4x Serpents on 1st batch, 2nd batch pulled it 2x he had his Original Serpent at sig 40.. now he has it at 160. You are probably happy if you got a sig 40 or 60.. or 80... You got any idea how much work some people put to get theirs at sig 200?

It doesn't affect you, I can respect that, now can you please respect our perspective and stop minimizing our opinion just because it doesn't affect you?

You can just move on as you suggested, since at this point you are just trying to piss off the people who feel affected by this.

This game thrives by deliberately stoking its most engaged players' competitive insecurity and FOMO, then selling relief in the form of progress & power. This is a psychologically powerful but also emotionally fragile model, because when the most engaged players feel disrespected or treated unfairly, their competitive insecurity and FOMO flips into resentment, and long-term trust erodes.

So it doesn't really matter what the cold hard numbers or logistics say about this situation, because it's the emotional aspect of "the chase" that drives this game's revenue.

Will this incident ruin the game? Obviously no. But for me and many other competitive and spending players, it has shone a light on how absurd it is to take this game's emotionally competitive chase seriously.

Because when a game mixes earned and/or purchased rewards/progress with random arbitrary rewards/progress, it tells its players that dev errors and luck or exploitation can be just as important as effort/financial investment, which can make the latter seem pointless and embarrassing.

I would at least like a follow-up response on why they thought this was fair and the best way forward.

this is going to create a lot of tension in unbalanced alliances

This is so unfortunate. All the goodwill following Summonersfest…the hard work @Kabam (Osaurus) Rex , @Kabam Crashed , etc. put in. Ugh. I feel for them.

I’m sure legal considerations required that they compensate those that opened (in honesty it was just a bug…but from a legal standpoint I can see how it could be argued…that is totally understandable.)

The “issue” lies in just how unfair the compensation became. The “lucky ones” like KTI, Vega, etc (and the dozens of screenshots I’ve seen) we given literally thousands of dollars in materials (based on the economy prior to compensation) …while people like me (who noticed about 5 crystals in that it was bugged and did what I thought at the time was the “right” / responsible thing and waited, let them know, etc.) lost out on over 1000 sig stones, 30,000 titan shards, etc.

My being responsible cost me quite a bit… and makes me less competitive against those that (knowingly or unknowingly) took advantage of the bug.

This doesn’t make anyone involved “bad people”. Not the streamers. Not those excited to open their compensation. Not even the people at Kabam. I have no doubt many at Kabam argued for a much more fair compensation. It is just likely that for economic reasons (and perhaps workload/complexity reasons) the more fair situations outlined by the community just weren’t considered feasible for Kabam.

I honestly am kind of at a loss. Not “quitting” or boycotting or anything like that…I’m just disappointed in how it all panned out, unsure of how to properly “value” deals involving 7-star crystals now, etc….just kinda trying to absorb everything.

Mike already gave one. They dont care and will try to do better so this wont happen again

LOL. Or take a shot each time he says "phenomenal" for a champion who will disappear from the decks shortly after adding to the pool :).

I stopped beleiving his champions overview videos and his champions rankings after BRB and Dazzler.
How many times he said they are phenomenal and fantastic? How many people are using these champions now? BRB died right after launch. Dazzler died right after Yelena.
The best ranking for champion is just to watch Beroman's or Cantona's or other top-level BG players streams.