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Haha, anyone else smell jealousy here lol. Can't believe I'm about to defend a million dollar company…

Anyways, I don't agree with others saying people exploit the bug. Casual players had no way of knowing it's bugged. One player mentioned the bug was brought to notice on discord. So? What about the thousands of other players who are not on othe discord server? Who don't regularly check this forum? Kabam took the right road here imo. Compensate only those affected.

There is no such thing as skill gap between players. The game is still largely PvE. Battlegrounds the only place of PvP.

If kabam instead rollback all champs of those affected, and the resources spent on those champs (sigs stones, rank up gems, catalyst etc). It will be funny because then the affected users will cry about better compensation. Players would argue that they were happy about their bugged champ regardless.

Hence to avoid that worse situation kabam decided to fairly compensate just the affected users. What happens as a consequence of that compensation is benign and of no consequence to the game. It's the vocal minority that makes it seem like a big deal. When actually just maybe hundreds of players were affected.

Kabam team are not crazy to compensate thousands of players. If it were in thousands kabam will lose money with compensation there as then the value of crystals would plummet. Does this mean they took the easier route?? Nope. It just means they took the correct route. They got the correct stats, data sets and accurate digits. Dedicated trained teams for situations like this. They know what they're doing guys.

You’re not bothered because you’re a casual, for anyone who’s even slightly competitive in BGs it’s a big deal. Especially those that opened over 10 Titans today, I for one could really use dupes on Nico and Karolina and as many sigs as possible on Maker Jean and Zemo. I wish you would for once look at the bigger picture instead of just sucking them off, there’s a time and place I’ve done it myself, but not this time

especially when they just turned the game over to the prestige based rework

it depends on what is of value to you. I didn’t get anything useful out of my openings today, so I’d rather I had just gotten the correct crystal and be ranking and planning my roster to those pulls then having to wait for compensation. I possibly could have taken further advantage of the cyber deals even, but if the compensation replacement crystals come after the offer expire, then I lose out on those too. So just a really crappy experience all the way around.

I'm surprised people didn't abuse it more, I thought we learned and mostly agreed that we would abuse every single exploit on sight after the mythic crystal fiasco a few years ago. Guess some didn't learn their lesson, I could've seen this one coming from a mile away

There’s been better ideas all over the forums. Two off the top of my head:

Players affected get 1:1 comp with the correct crystal. Those who weren’t get 1:1 comp with the bugged crystal. This takes into account all sigs, titan shards, etc disparity missing now,

The other option, everyone gets a selector for one of the new champs. Beyond that, those that were affected get a selector for each 10 they opened. Problem solved

Solution 1: Give a 1:10 compensation to those affected.

Result: Players who saved for 5 months get screwed, unaffected players don't. Imagine you saved 800k shards for the changeover and none of the champs you saved for were in there and if you only waited you would have been fine.

Solution 2: Give 1:1 comp to those affected.

Result: It only affected a relatively small percentage of the game so the economy impact isn't extreme. It's a bit of an overcorrection for sure but what else should they get? 1:5? That's till unfair for them.

Solution 3: Just like the Zola comp, set an "open by" date and give 1:1 comp to everyone in the community who pops by then.

Result: This benefits unaffected players more which defeats the purpose of comp and impacts the game economy the most. This is the worst solution.

Solution #2 makes affected players whole and impacts the economy the least and that's what they picked. What other solutions do we think is best? Sending 2 selector crystals with the missing champs? If you popped 50 you'd still be mad.

Kabam picked the least devastating solution. If anyone has any better ideas let's hear it.

It's always like this. Always have to exploit bugs, always have to play new content on immediate release in hope of it being bugged to exploit compensations. It's so annoying.

The hypocrisy of the Zola missing from titan compensation is too much in this case. You have to come up with something better. Dozens of free 7s crystal being gifted to the fastest exploites is too much