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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.

We literally just had this situation with Zola and they extended the window and came up with a reasonable solution. Yet now they decided to switch gears and give double ups to some people and no similar opportunity to others.

I have no issues with people who got the compensation, it's not their fault, and they deserve something. The issue is with Kabam and their endless incompetence and standardless decisionmaking.

Exactly, if this is the solution, then extend the window and give other players a chance to double up too. I mean, if someone opened 70 crystals, they get an extra 70 crystals now, while anyone who waited or was at work or otherwise unable to open gets nothing. How is that a fair resolution in the broader system of this gacha game?

There's one very easy solution for this. Give EVERYONE a compensation containing the amount of 7 star shards they had in their account at the original rollover time, regardless of the number of crystals they did or didn't open

I bet you 90% of people complaining about the botched crystal don't have 10 7*s at sig 200...