**UPDATES TO ENLISTMENT GIFTING EVENT:**
To prevent exploitation, we will prevent new Accounts from being able to Gift enlistment crystals. We will also be taking action on those who are using 3rd Party Sellers, Bots and other farms to gift themselves mass amounts of Enlistment Crystals. Lastly, we will be adding an expiration timer to Enlistment Crystals. All unopened Enlistment Crystals will expire on Oct 18 @ 17:00 UTC. For more information, please see this post: https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/346104/updates-to-enlistment-gifting-event
To prevent exploitation, we will prevent new Accounts from being able to Gift enlistment crystals. We will also be taking action on those who are using 3rd Party Sellers, Bots and other farms to gift themselves mass amounts of Enlistment Crystals. Lastly, we will be adding an expiration timer to Enlistment Crystals. All unopened Enlistment Crystals will expire on Oct 18 @ 17:00 UTC. For more information, please see this post: https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/346104/updates-to-enlistment-gifting-event
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I'd disagree on that point. Of the 74 5* I have, probably 40-50% are naturally duped.
The only people that'd massively benefit from this are newer-mid tier players who only have one or two 5/6*s and already had one of those champs anyway.
Also, who's to say you definitely wouldn't pull the dupe from your next 5-6* Crystal? It's just as likely as getting any other champ...
It's not a perfect fix, no. Just less complicated and less likely to go wrong.
Can only blame your peers that got them and shared
the news.
If you don't see the problem with a bunch of easy free 6* Namor dupes going out there you're either pretty thick or just want to make it sound like it's not a big deal in hopes of keeping the one you got
Tbh I really couldn't care less if somebody gets something in game that I don't have. Like I said, rng in its purest form means that every champ has an equal chance to proc from a crystal, I don't care what the odfs of getting a specific champ are, because there's an equal chance to get *any* champ.
What does concern me is that, given a relatively long period of time and after reassurances that the team was taking its time to get it all correct, they still botched it. Mistakes happenβbut this seems pretty inexplicable.
What was the problem? Rewards were miscoded? Queries double counted? Did anyone test it out on a real account to see if it worked like it should?
Real players noted the error almost instantaneously. Shoot nearly any active player or forums user who sold their champs a test email to verify the results were correct and I suspect you could have troubleshot this. Most would have been happy to help.
The old adages like βmeasure twice, cut onceβ and βalways check your workβ apply here just as much as in the real world.
Dr. Zola
So basically, if they are pulling them back they better make sure:
A. They communicate exactly WHEN they will remove the dupe so people know not to use them in AW/AQ during that time.
B. They refund ALL MATERIALS used to rank and/or sig up the champion as people may have ranked Champions based on them being duped and would not have ranked them up unduped.
C. Make sure all rank up resources and sig stones are returned IMMEDIATELY when the dupe is removed so that there is no further downtime without these resources, which would essentially be punishing the players for ranking up a champion they had no way of knowing was issued to them in error.
There has been no in game communication on this subject, and it is unfair to assume everyone would read the forums, or wait on any rank up decisions to determine whether these resources were granted in error.
Bottom line is Kabam should be a little more careful and do some testing before sending out a package like this to players. Feel like they need to either cut their losses on this, or if they are reversing it and it has further impact on players, significant compensation would be warranted.
Am I happy that some people got free 6* Namors and I was not one of them? No.
Do I think there is a reasonable fix that can be implemented without being more trouble than it's worth? Again, No.
There is no good solution here, or at least not one I feel confident Kabam will be able to successfully and fairly implement in a short period of time.
I've only been playing since last Augu6and the process is new to me.
If someone pulled Namor a long time ago, awakened them and put 200 sigs in (which is a common thing to do), do you really think they remember for sure if they ever pulled a dupe of that champion? I don't know about you, but I honestly don't remember all my pulls except for the rare god tier new champ / first dupe, but a max sig pull isn't something that sticks in my memory.
I think there could be cases where someone was not sure if they were meant to get 2 back, and they may have ranked up the champion thinking the dupe was intended.
With the 6* you are probably right, everyone knows what 6*s they pull because they are so few and far between.
For reference, Seatin got back additional dupes on his 6* Namor, but as a direct result he was not returned the generic 6* sig stones that he'd invested in him. The only reason he sold the Namor was to get back these stones to put into this 6* Surfer or Sunspot.
There's a wider issue here than people like you worrying about 'losing out' on dupes you never had. Instead of making vague, empty threats about quitting, maybe take a bit of time to objectively consider what is and isn't 'fair'.
This whole re-balance run has been a colossal failure in my opinion. I doubt they'll go away from doing it again, but I hope it's nowhere near this much of a dumpsrer fire next time...
Kabam, you screwed, you caught the mistake and stopped the bleeding... Cut your losses, leave what you did in place and move on. Apologize for everyone for the screw up, and spend your time investigating all the claims that people got less ressources (ISO, gold, cats/wrong cats) instead of trying to work back again and address the double champ issue. People getting shorted on ressources is more of an actual negative to the players, than some making out better on the free dups (people want their Namors for EQ's and story quests mostly, which really only affects your ability to clean out ressource pools, more than affecting people in AW).
In order to account for every case of players receiving fewer resources than they should have, you can see why Kabam needs to look into (and rectify) the core issue of players receiving too many dupes.
So stop looking for thin excuses to justify why you should keep erroneous dupes and awakenings that you never had
This is still a work in progress situation! When we have more information to give you, we'll drop by with it. Thank you for your patience while we get this all sorted and get you the answers you need!
If they take back the resources we should really get some "inconvenience" compensation eg a 5* crystal or two, units whatever.
I'd also hope it wouldn't take another month (as it would mean 2 overall) and that it's tested properly with some dummy accounts before being done ie test removing the mistakenly awarded resources and test putting back the correct ones using dummy accounts...
You want Kabam to make things right for people who were shorted on resources. That's great, so do I.
Doing so requires them to fix the issue of extra dupes and erroneous awakenings. I hope you realise that now.
I wonder how much of a delay this whole issue is going to build into their road map schedule for things like the Hulkbuster Beta and re-work... I'm thinking stuff like that will see a delay now?
I sold both 5*s as I had zero use for them so I didn't care how long it took. Could I have moved some generic sigs around from my R3 6*? Absolutely, but it wasnt worth it in all honesty so I don't have this current issue