Dumb compensation?
ironspooder
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My brother got a rift compensation for a mistake Kabam made, I didn't, anyone else figure the rift selection at the very first day of the rifts being out was intentional? So now I don't get a compensation because of their mistake and not warning anyone, how the hell would I know this rift selection wasn't intentional this is dumb and I am very pissed
Dumb compensation? 36 votes
I didn't know this was not intentional
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15 votes
I knew this was intentional
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Sorry if it sounds too toxic but come on man...
Oh and I did get the compensation it's so nice
Instead of Kabam going through the painstaking work of rolling back unintended rewards, they evened the playing field - and you wonder why you didn't get it?
Really?
You want compensation on top of that?
Kabam discovered this, and instead of punishing you for it, they gave the same rewards that you accidentally got to everyone else.
How is this something you're mad over? Am I missing some fundamental injustice in this? What, exactly, is the problem? Because as far as I'm concerned, this all seems like Kabam simply leveled the playing field in a very pro-player way. No rewards were withdrawn - more were just added (to those who didn't encounter the bug). How on Earth are you discriminated against by them solving the situation this way? Have you not already gotten the rewards that people were compensated for now? Would you have rather not exploited the bug at the time and then gotten those rewards today instead?
I really, really fail to see what there's to be upset about here.
The whole idea of an exploit is that a mistake is there and the players, either while knowing or when any reasonable person should have known, decide to leverage that mistake to gain far more rewards than obviously intentional. That's the definition of an exploit. It is basically the same definition for every game I've ever played.
Taking a further step back, the notion of exploitive behavior comes down to the fact that if you believe in the rule "if I can take it, I deserve to have it" you're wrong, and we'll prove you're wrong by punishing that behavior. That's true in most online games, and true in life in general. In fact, it is just true in life in general. Online games are just another activity played by real people in their real lives that honor the same convention as everything else. You're supposed to exercise good judgment. Online games are not some special exception to life that operates on Mad Max rules.