@CoatHang3r I find that hard to believe. What I find even harder to believe is that so many players on the top of the food chain who can complete some of the hardest content we’ve seen, would be clueless as to the exact nature of the rewards.
There’s a few examples in this thread and through YouTube of those players receiving the gem, realizing it could be misused, and decided not to because they were aware of the precedent Kabam set with punishing exploits. So yes, there is precedent. Receiving items in error is different than knowingly exploiting a loophole. You’re the one grasping at straws here.
@BirdReynolds So your argument is that you cannot accept people didn’t read an item desrciption? Sorry there is a mountain of evidence on these very forums where peope act, make decisions and forum posts before reading about what an item specifically does. Now i don’t dispute there are people who knew better and acted, they also acted on the item they recieved;is it unreasonable for them to assume the decription of the gem itself was the actual bug? However there are people who did not know then spent other items and made other decisions based on what they were able to do with the rewards recieved from the game.
Precedent where? You keep saying this but it is not sellf evident.
Lol, guy. I shouldn’t have to hold your hand through this. The most recent is the units bug in beta. Nowhere did it explicitly state that you can’t do what they did. But they did it, and got punished severely (justifiably so). Here, it was explicitly stated that the gems were for 2015 champs only. And if you can’t make a reasonable assumption that end game players know what they’re spending large amounts of resources and possibly money to get, then you’re being willfully ignorant. That’s not a good space to argue from.
Your argument that “it was brought to their attention and they fixed it quickly so no harm was done” is completely INVALID as a stance towards fairness
Killmonger Indestructible bug; Beneficial: Fixed in about a week.
Magik gaining Sp2 power from 0% opponents; beneficial: fixed in like a day or two
Medusa Living strands removing only a few fury and debuffs; beneficial: defensively she earned them item use/sales and took about a month
Archangel Neurotoxin stuns; beneficial: officially told as working as intended they reneged that stance and “fixed” the interaction
Drax: took 2 years and virtually ended up with people having wasted resources LONG after it was revealed to be a but but decided to keep it and later suddenly patched it
IMIW, defensively profitable: left for a month, allegedly fixed and then fixed again after the first one didn’t work.
Their track record sucks especially thanks to the DRAX one being heinous as they over fixed him out of paranoia. Yet they still allow AA and X23 to do what he does except with better heavy attacks.
The only time they’ve ever allowed long term beneficial “bugs” to last that long is in the odd case between Archangel and Drax. One of which is borderline wariyed resources afterwards and Archangel was made so OP anyways that they STILL haven’t “fixed” everything as his heavy still bypasses Mordo because unlike with Drax who relied on the niche of bypassing evades, Archangel is intrinsically OP by conception
Hi all, thanks for your passionate back and forth on this issue.
We thought it would be helpful to let you know that only a very small percentage of those players who could access the content ranked up non 2015 characters. Approximately ~0.008%.
While we appreciate the suggestions to roll those accounts back, it’s not something we will be moving forward with.
Rolling back ranked up Champions sounds straightforward, however, the reality is that Champion progression is incredibly complex. It very quickly becomes almost impossible to cleanly reverse and has the potential to cause even more challenges.
We know how important the competitive balance of The Contest is to all Summoners, ourselves included. Which is why the competitive modes rely more on breadth of roster and Alliance participation than any single Champion.
These decisions are difficult for us to make, especially when it may result in disappointment. We carefully consider the scale of the impact, the feedback we have received, and use all the technical resources at our disposal.
Again thank you very much for your passion and dedication to The Contest, we have many more great things in store in the coming months. Keep an eye out for our upcoming anniversary celebration!
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There’s a few examples in this thread and through YouTube of those players receiving the gem, realizing it could be misused, and decided not to because they were aware of the precedent Kabam set with punishing exploits. So yes, there is precedent. Receiving items in error is different than knowingly exploiting a loophole. You’re the one grasping at straws here.
Precedent where? You keep saying this but it is not sellf evident.
I’d be angry too
@BirdReynolds Laughably bad analogy, those who grasp at straws while living in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
Your argument that “it was brought to their attention and they fixed it quickly so no harm was done” is completely INVALID as a stance towards fairness
Killmonger Indestructible bug; Beneficial: Fixed in about a week.
Magik gaining Sp2 power from 0% opponents; beneficial: fixed in like a day or two
Medusa Living strands removing only a few fury and debuffs; beneficial: defensively she earned them item use/sales and took about a month
Archangel Neurotoxin stuns; beneficial: officially told as working as intended they reneged that stance and “fixed” the interaction
Drax: took 2 years and virtually ended up with people having wasted resources LONG after it was revealed to be a but but decided to keep it and later suddenly patched it
IMIW, defensively profitable: left for a month, allegedly fixed and then fixed again after the first one didn’t work.
Their track record sucks especially thanks to the DRAX one being heinous as they over fixed him out of paranoia. Yet they still allow AA and X23 to do what he does except with better heavy attacks.
The only time they’ve ever allowed long term beneficial “bugs” to last that long is in the odd case between Archangel and Drax. One of which is borderline wariyed resources afterwards and Archangel was made so OP anyways that they STILL haven’t “fixed” everything as his heavy still bypasses Mordo because unlike with Drax who relied on the niche of bypassing evades, Archangel is intrinsically OP by conception
We thought it would be helpful to let you know that only a very small percentage of those players who could access the content ranked up non 2015 characters. Approximately ~0.008%.
While we appreciate the suggestions to roll those accounts back, it’s not something we will be moving forward with.
Rolling back ranked up Champions sounds straightforward, however, the reality is that Champion progression is incredibly complex. It very quickly becomes almost impossible to cleanly reverse and has the potential to cause even more challenges.
We know how important the competitive balance of The Contest is to all Summoners, ourselves included. Which is why the competitive modes rely more on breadth of roster and Alliance participation than any single Champion.
These decisions are difficult for us to make, especially when it may result in disappointment. We carefully consider the scale of the impact, the feedback we have received, and use all the technical resources at our disposal.
Again thank you very much for your passion and dedication to The Contest, we have many more great things in store in the coming months. Keep an eye out for our upcoming anniversary celebration!