Update: Erroneous 'Bundle 1' for Thronebreakers in GWBB

Demonzfyre · April 2023

MrSakuragi said:

Demonzfyre said:

Usagicassidy said:

DrownedGod said:

SerialKiller13x said:
Small number. Only like what a few hundred thousand players... Thronebreaker and higher players should be given access to this. Just put a cap on it like you did at 10. Make it fair. Those who got that deal, it was a game changer for them. I have to watch my ali mate take a huge leap and get away with it while I can't now.
I respectfully disagree that it was a game changer. I'm a seasoned player, Thronebreaker but not far from Paragon and I'm one of those who bought a number of bundles. I got exactly 2 new champs - Cull Obsidian and Symbiote Spidey - and a whole bunch of dupes for some 7* shards and ISO. I gained negligible advantage versus someone who couldn't access the deal.
You can't seriously use RNG as an example of why it WASN'T impactful.

FOR YOU.

Someone else opened 10 6* crystals and got them AMAZING pulls and will progress them SIGNIFICANTLY in the contest. Which is great for them! But when all the rest of us could only open up ONE 6*, from the same amount of resources spent. Yeah, that's not good.

The fact that it was a bug, it was live for near an hour, but only those who saw it - and importantly, had access to it (player level) - were able to take advantage of it, doesn't create a fairness in an "already unfair" game (the RNG aspect, which is only heightened in this scenario).

If possible (the reality is anything *is* possible with Kabam for this game, they have proven time and time again with the weirdest and most specific issues in the past), they should be distributing Bobble's to all the other players, to help "cushion" the difference. Nothing will quite equate those who "took advantage" of this error. Nor does I think anyone to expect it to.

But kabam screwed up, big time, and they need to level the playing field.
Y'all complain if Kabam doesn't to "pro player" things and then complain when they do "pro player" things. Make up your mind.
This is pro player for a selective group. Big difference.

That's pretty much every situation the community calls "pro player bugs".

Triclops1224 · April 2023

Congrats to the players that were able to benefit.

Grown adults sitting here complaining about a few players being able to benefit from a mistake is weird no matter how you slice it.

I’m mind blown that y’all are actually using the word unfair as if that’s ever been a compelling argument. 😂😂😂

_DarthPikachu_ · April 2023

it was way more than a "few players". Im in a group of 10 alliances and over half of our members got 20 different 6* crystals. They just don’t wanna admit how bad they messed up

Triclops1224 said:
Congrats to the players that were able to benefit.

Grown adults sitting here complaining about a few players being able to benefit from a mistake is weird no matter how you slice it.

I’m mind blown that y’all are actually using the word unfair as if that’s ever been a compelling argument. 😂😂😂

_DarthPikachu_ · April 2023

Guess we all know to definitely take advantage of goof ups now since they won’t do anything about it 😂

Triclops1224 · April 2023

When gas stations mistakenly set a pump price at pennies instead of dollars, I cheer for the people who were able to get the hook up. I don’t go into the store asking to see the manager and demanding that I get the same price once the correction has been made.

To each their own though.

_DarthPikachu_ · April 2023

@Kabam Miike I can’t help but feel this is the worst decision from kabam yet..you tell us not to exploit bugs like this because you’ll ban us, much like you banned people for y’all’s mistake months ago, and now your basically saying thanks and congratulations here’s 20 free 6* crystals and a bunch of 7* shards to everyone who took advantage of it knowing it was a mistake. Whoever made this decision shouldn’t be in charge of making decisions. Thanks for giving me a solid reason to quit after 5 years of hard work though! People progressing their account in 5 mins more than honest people can in weeks is a dealbreaker for a lot of people. We have 37 people quitting so far

_DarthPikachu_ · April 2023

Cheaper gas isn’t gonna bring down the integrity of the entire game. People work very hard to get 6*s, and some people getting 20 free ones and a bunch of 7* shards makes people have a huge advantage over those that didn’t. Battlegrounds will be harder, war defenders will be better, and people will have 7*s that wasn’t even close to having enough shards. How is that balanced?

Triclops1224 said:
When gas stations mistakenly set a pump price at pennies instead of dollars, I cheer for the people who were able to get the hook up. I don’t go into the store asking to see the manager and demanding that I get the same price once the correction has been made.

To each their own though.

Triclops1224 · April 2023

That’s dramatic at best. BGs and AW defense will be minimally impacted unless you think everybody who bought those bundles has a ton of resources just laying around to rank twenty new defenders up.

If you’ve been playing this game for five years and STILL haven’t reached paragon by now, the newly acquired champs in somebody else’s roster are the least of your concerns.

You’re borderline begging on the forums. It’s weird bruh. Do better.

Ch123 · April 2023

Here's my point.
I had the offer ready to buy
I even took a screenshot because it was so awesome a deal
Then I suddenly got redirected to baubles store without the bundle

I wondered whether my screenshot took me back but yeah you guys pulled it out exactly the moment I was gonna get it.
How will you justify that?

_DarthPikachu_ · April 2023

When you spend years of your time and money on a game, you’d expect situations to be handled better than they are. Either you took advantage of the glitch so your happy or your high enough player where 20 6*s wouldn’t matter.. either way if your not negatively affected from it, that’s great, but your opinion is irrelevant. I’m speaking for the people that could have grown their accounts by a long shot but chose not to because that’s what kabam has stated countless times to do or else get banned

Triclops1224 said:
That’s dramatic at best. BGs and AW defense will be minimally impacted unless you think everybody who bought those bundles has a ton of resources just laying around to rank twenty new defenders up.

If you’ve been playing this game for five years and STILL haven’t reached paragon by now, the newly acquired champs in somebody else’s roster are the least of your concerns.

You’re borderline begging on the forums. It’s weird bruh. Do better.

lfm07 · April 2023

When you say only a small chunk of players got it, I'm sure these are the ones that are more competitive/active so this will increase the gap between the competitive ones and give them undue advantage over others. What is the harm in giving out same rewards to all TB+? Atleast everyone will be at the same level

lfm07 · April 2023

Yes, we are frustrated and this is your fault. I'm sure the rewards would have been reverted if it was possible for you guys. The rollback was quite complicated with a lot of complexity so you guys resorted to easy way out and painting it like you care for summoners.

Triclops1224 · April 2023

_DarthPikachu_ said:
When you spend years of your time and money on a game, you’d expect situations to be handled better than they are. Either you took advantage of the glitch so your happy or your high enough player where 20 6*s wouldn’t matter.. either way if your not negatively affected from it, that’s great, but your opinion is irrelevant. I’m speaking for the people that could have grown their accounts by a long shot but chose not to because that’s what kabam has stated countless times to do or else get banned
Triclops1224 said:
That’s dramatic at best. BGs and AW defense will be minimally impacted unless you think everybody who bought those bundles has a ton of resources just laying around to rank twenty new defenders up.

If you’ve been playing this game for five years and STILL haven’t reached paragon by now, the newly acquired champs in somebody else’s roster are the least of your concerns.

You’re borderline begging on the forums. It’s weird bruh. Do better.

Don’t get me wrong, I hope y’all’s cyber pan handling pays off. If Kabam hooked y’all up the same way the others benefited, I’d congratulate y’all too. I find the game to be more enjoyable when I can be happy for somebody’s else’s gain.

And yes, I am at a point in the game where twenty 6* crystals isn’t gonna be a game changer for my account.

But let’s be real. You’re calling this the worst thing Kabam has ever done after the player community had to navigate though roughly two years of input bugs. Followed by the 3.2.6 revive nerf.

Even your thumbs knew that was cap as you were typing it.

_DarthPikachu_ · April 2023

Triclops1224 said:

_DarthPikachu_ said:
When you spend years of your time and money on a game, you’d expect situations to be handled better than they are. Either you took advantage of the glitch so your happy or your high enough player where 20 6*s wouldn’t matter.. either way if your not negatively affected from it, that’s great, but your opinion is irrelevant. I’m speaking for the people that could have grown their accounts by a long shot but chose not to because that’s what kabam has stated countless times to do or else get banned
Triclops1224 said:
That’s dramatic at best. BGs and AW defense will be minimally impacted unless you think everybody who bought those bundles has a ton of resources just laying around to rank twenty new defenders up.

If you’ve been playing this game for five years and STILL haven’t reached paragon by now, the newly acquired champs in somebody else’s roster are the least of your concerns.

You’re borderline begging on the forums. It’s weird bruh. Do better.

Don’t get me wrong, I hope y’all’s cyber pan handling pays off. If Kabam hooked y’all up the same way the others benefited, I’d congratulate y’all too. I find the game to be more enjoyable when I can be happy for somebody’s else’s gain.

And yes, I am at a point in the game where twenty 6* crystals isn’t gonna be a game changer for my account.

But let’s be real. You’re calling this the worst thing Kabam has ever done after the player community had to navigate though roughly two years of input bugs. Followed by the 3.2.6 revive nerf.

Even your thumbs knew that was cap as you were typing it.

I never said it was the worst thing they’ve done, I said it was the worst decision they’ve made. Unless they were “deciding” to leave the input issues bad lol

Omedenn · April 2023

Ahh I see, already thought who is that guy with such a defensive replies which most of the time make little to no sense. Same guy different profile picture

Triclops1224 · April 2023

They certainly decided to nerf 3.2.6.

And the way the input issues were handled, up to and including weekly comp being halted somewhat prematurely, yes, there was decision making at play there as well.

Google the word obtuse.

GroundedWisdom · April 2023

The bottom line is, if it was game-altering to the point that it created an imbalance in the game, they would have removed them. They're not picking and choosing to say it's a small number overall. Is it fair? No. Total fairness is never an easy goal when it comes to unexpected issues. However, it's no more unfair to me than the people who spend tens of thousands of dollars on the game. Some people will get what I don't. That's as much a fact of life as it is in the game. There is such a thing as leaving well-enough alone when it would create much more work and further problems to remove all of it. Some people got a break. Good for them. That's my view.

Triclops1224 · April 2023

GroundedWisdom said:
The bottom line is, if it was game-altering to the point that it created an imbalance in the game, they would have removed them. They're not picking and choosing to say it's a small number overall. Is it fair? No. Total fairness is never an easy goal when it comes to unexpected issues. However, it's no more unfair to me than the people who spend tens of thousands of dollars on the game. Some people will get what I don't. That's as much a fact of life as it is in the game. There is such a thing as leaving well-enough alone when it would create much more work and further problems to remove all of it. Some people got a break. Good for them. That's my view.

It bothers me that I agree with you on this.

_DarthPikachu_ · April 2023

Oh well what’s done is done. I just wish I would have bought it when I had the chance rather than trying to do the right thing and avoid getting banned. Next time there’s a goof up like this ima take FULL advantage! If I get banned ima rage lol

JK_47 · April 2023

what about players who didn't purchase, make it available for us too😭.. Even Limited numbers is good too ...or just an ingame mail with few shards as compensation...

Common mate with modders running around in BG, honest players like us are already loosing...
Now we have to deal with gwenpool event lucksters.....

Come mate u gotta level the playing field, kindly provide compensation #leveltheplay

Giuliameij · April 2023

Good way to handle this. I wasn't quick enough to purchase it. But since a couple more 6* champs to an account wont 'break' the game I think it was a good choice to let them keep it. Others will be lucky next time. Hope those summoners good something good from their crystals

Renaxqq · April 2023

It's so unfair for players that didn't got to purchase that offer. So unfair...

Darth_Stewie · April 2023

Demonzfyre said:

Uri45briceno said:
Although I know it was a mistake, I feel like the economy of the game has been tilted, meaning most of my matches in battlegrounds will have shiny new 6 stars because of taking advantage of the situation. It's pretty farfetched to ask for compensation and i get that, but it wouldnt hurt the new thronebreaker accounts.
It hasn't. You won't even remember it 3 weeks from now.

Until Kabam makes another mistake....its like an abusive relationship, right?

Darth_Stewie · April 2023

Demonzfyre said:

Dorky said:
So what I'm getting is that thronebreaker got a massive deal while paragon don't get the same deal?
Some players were able to 200k 6* shards. Not every TB, just some. Paragon doesn't have the offer that was bugged. We have different ones so it doesn't affect us anyway.

Just some? Do you know the number and can tell us for sure, in comparison to how many many people play the game that you could casually use the word "some" to describe the amount who got it to who didn't get it? No matter if it was offered to these players and not those players...either way it's unethical and some hit the jackpot apparently and some are left with whatever other **** there is to offer. No matter how you put it "some" might of benefitted from the offer but "many" of us got cheated!

Wu_Bangerz23 · April 2023

Soumemiakas1926 said:

MCOC Team said:
Hello Summoners,

Gwenpool's Bubble Bauble Blowout ititially released with an error in the Bauble Store for 'Bundle 1' for Thronebreaker accounts. The offer displayed and awarded 10,000 six-star shards instead of the intended 1,000 six-star shards. As soon as the team was aware they removed the bundle; it was live for 48 minutes before it was taken down.

The team has come to a decision and will operate as follows:

Anyone who purchased these bundles with the error in place, will be allowed to keep the shards and rewards from subsequently opened crystals. After looking at the data we saw this was a very small number of players.

We believe this is a solution that best takes into account the interests of both the Summoners and the Contest.

Thank you,

- MCOC Game Team
Totally unfair

I see right through this. This response was about the only thing that pissed me off ....if it's such a tiny player base then how hard is it to go in the game and fix it?? 15-16 6 star champs is a huge deal. I'm f2p and that prob takes me about 3 months to get ...and not only did some people get it, but they got it for free (100k Gwen bubbles or whatever the hell they are)....good for the people who took advantage of it though. I know I would have lol. Seriously ...that's the equivalent to winning a kabam lottery. .....again, kabam should have just sent a message out that said.....damnit....we suck and we are sorry to 99.9% of our summoners. Don't blow smoke and act like it was 12 people....I've seen dozens of posts on YouTube videos of people's pulls from this disaster....soooo not only are you saying "sorry we're not sorry" but you also came on here and told everyone else that it's not a big deal (it's a small amount of people). Just own up to it....don't turn a mistake into a lie to the whole community. ....again if it's such a small amount of players then why don't you just send out like an extra 200k Gwen coins to everyone BUT those select few? .....that would have been the right choice, especially if it was only a handful of players you would have to exclude.

Rick_1 · April 2023

Congrats to those that got a win from this and those who didn’t should lower expectations and take advantage of every update 👍🏼

AverageDesi · April 2023

Yes. Let's incentivise people to exploit glitches and bugs to get rewards because they might get to keep them. Remember sometime back when you guys banned players for a week because they took 10 5* signature stones from a quest?

DefCon3 · April 2023

If the rewards were published ahead of time, then yes that would be taking advantage of an exploit. Knowingly going down the same path that you should only be able to go down once is different.

Update: Erroneous 'Bundle 1' for Thronebreakers in GWBB

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