**Mastery Loadouts**
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Gifting Badge Discussion [Merged Threads]
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The service has been 'suspended' not 'terminated.' Suspension insinuates that it will return. Termination insinuates an end of something. So, seeing as how Gifting is under suspension currently, that stands to reason this isn't permanent.
I understand, and agree that this is frustrating. However, instead of going on 'feelings' you may find some tranquility in logic. Owning the fact you made a choice to purchase units is step 1. Step 2, understanding that there's a difference between suspension and termination of a service. Step 3, understanding why this had to be done. People were using an in game feature to phish credit card information, action was necessary.
Being mad at Kabam for protecting their interests and their customers by temporarily shutting down an in game feature is a tad ridiculous. The fact they dropped everyone 300 units in the meantime is merely a nice gesture. The situation is terrible. Personally, I'm pissed at the people who casued this, not the people that were forced into action. If they knowingly allowed this to continue, it wouldn't end well for them. So, instead of doing the seemingly nice thing for the community, they did the smart thing, and tried to throw everyone a bone that was effected by it.
Would I have purchased that Tony Stark's Briefcase without the Badge attached to the deal? No. Just the same, I'm not gonna scream refund for something I got and used for almost 2 years. Maybe if you take a moment and look at the big picture, you'll find there's little else they could've done. Yes, better 'compensation' would've been nice. Fact remains, they weren't really obligated to give anything. Especially if the service returns. Judging by the sound of it, it will once they tighten up the security within it. So long as I don't have to repurchase said Gifting Badge once they fix this, I'm cool with waiting.
So yeah, 300 units is useful. Not amazing, but useful. Personally, I'm just gonna bide my time and work around this best one can. Frankly, I gave much more than I ever got as I was happy to help anyone within my Alliance if they were in a bind and I was in the position to do so. I can live without it, and will be happy if it returns one day. If it doesn't, and they eventually announce that the service is permanently terminated... then perhaps I'll join the ranks of those whom feel the 300 units is a poor replacement for it. As it currently stands, it isn't the replacement. It's just a kind gesture.
Without knowing all the details, I would probably try to implement both gifter limits and gifting limits. In other words, limits on the accounts trying to gift, and limits on precisely who and in what way you could gift. For example, I might consider unlocking gifting on an account based on some content metric, like the Act completion badges. Each one would unlock a higher tier of gifting which would allow for either more gifting or higher value items to be gifted. And on the gift mechanics side, I would look to implement something like only gifting to people on the friends list, and only people who've been friends for some minimum amount of time, so you couldn't just to a drive-by gifting.
Whenever I've seen this kind of thing occur, the best results come not from making fraud impossible, but rather unprofitable. If you make it too expensive or time consuming for the sellers, and too risky for the buyers, you can reduce this kind of activity to arbitrarily low levels. But it can be tricky to do correctly unless you know all the details.
I do find it kind of ironic that the Apple guidelines have clarified their stance on gifting to state clearly that the kind of gifting that MCOC implements is explicitly allowed, whereas prior versions of the guidelines could be interpreted to state it wasn't allowed. I (and I think most Apple developers) assumed this referred to a different situation for historical reasons, but Apple seems to have settled the matter definitively. Just in time for Kabam to disable gifting.
It might take weeks or months for anti-fraud measures to be devised. But while I could be completely wrong here, I would be surprised if gifting didn't come back some time this year.
i remember this from back then, i tried to google it just now but too many years have passed since people still sent letters i guess because i couldn't find any reference to it on the internet.
anyway. people are angry at kabam. i was, but i smoked weed all day and i don't care anymore, i'll take the 300 units. i bet there are 10 other stoners out there who would agree with me lol. but i'm not crazy right? i swear this is some sort of Rule of Tens or something but the google machine yields squat.