I opened mystic crystal and kinda happy with how it’s resolved

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  • Drago_von_DragoDrago_von_Drago Member Posts: 1,021 ★★★★
    Completely off the troll topic but does anybody like SAP? I’m assuming it’s the same one I’m familiar with. My experience hasn’t been directly with it but every company I know that uses or switches to it seems to have loads of problems and not a lot of good to say
  • ChobblyChobbly Member Posts: 986 ★★★★
    edited July 2023

    Completely off the troll topic but does anybody like SAP? I’m assuming it’s the same one I’m familiar with. My experience hasn’t been directly with it but every company I know that uses or switches to it seems to have loads of problems and not a lot of good to say

    There's a saying I've heard multiple times - You don't change SAP to work with your business. You change your business to work with SAP.

    Knowing people who use it, and work with it, there's nothing I've yet heard so far to dispute that statement.
  • Fit_Fun9329Fit_Fun9329 Member Posts: 2,261 ★★★★★

    The more I think about that, I am wondering if kabam really has the technical pre-condition to solve such exploits. I compare that with SAP - there are, reports and various standard transactions but this seems to be very special.

    Somebody knows more about the technic itself?

    Your mention of SAP gave me PTSD. I was project leader of SAP integration with legacy systems back in '04. Shudder.

    Anyways, most likely the query was looking for If crystal opening=y AND between xdatetime and xdatetime, list Champ results, delete. Anything further than that would definitely take a full week to unwind AND make a ton of assumptions that wouldn't be one size fits all. Heck just thinking about it I could see a room of folks shouting each other down about variables and what's fair.

    Ugh. SAP.
    I am working with SAP (GHP, GHM and GHQ) in a Human Resources environment. Responsible globally for a big process within the company, working together with IT in India.

    That’s why I know how complex such reports and query’s are. I think it’s exactly how you described it 😆🫠🫠
  • klobberintymeklobberintyme Member Posts: 1,668 ★★★★
    SAP: you buy these modules. You no touchee or change. You want integration? We spit out data and you figure it out on your side. That's extra $$, too.

    Just thought of a workaround on cashed-in 7* shards - NEGATIVE BALANCE. Works for unit refunders, right? You're welcome, kabam...
  • ChobblyChobbly Member Posts: 986 ★★★★
    edited July 2023

    SAP: ...
    Just thought of a workaround on cashed-in 7* shards - NEGATIVE BALANCE. Works for unit refunders, right? You're welcome, kabam...

    I said that earlier. Basically, if they'd done that forget ever pulling a 6* basic or featured crystal from shards ever again.

    Assuming a standard drop rate of 250 of the 1250 being 6*, someone who opened them all would be at a negative 2.5 million 6* star shards.

    Kabam could have been much harder with those who ran with the exploit. I would hate to be the Dev tasked with clearing this all up.
  • ShregokiiShregokii Member Posts: 5

    A lot of people are now unhappy with the Kabam after the fix. But I'm happy with everything, opening this crystals was fun. Plus tried playing a bunch of 6* characters. Had a lot of fun over the weeks. One day ban is a paltry price to pay for that. Plus I got really lucky with 7* pulls and those characters stayed on my account. So a big kudos to the guys at Kabam. And thanks to the community for supporting fellow gamers in this situation :D

    Why would you post about this? If you want to keep them this isn’t the way to go.
  • smdam38smdam38 Member Posts: 1,660 ★★★
    The point is to let everyone know the game isn’t being managed properly.

    The fix probably sucked. The person that effed it is hopefully either fired or a relative of an executive and got a raise.
  • ValueGamingValueGaming Member Posts: 14
    Shregokii said:

    A lot of people are now unhappy with the Kabam after the fix. But I'm happy with everything, opening this crystals was fun. Plus tried playing a bunch of 6* characters. Had a lot of fun over the weeks. One day ban is a paltry price to pay for that. Plus I got really lucky with 7* pulls and those characters stayed on my account. So a big kudos to the guys at Kabam. And thanks to the community for supporting fellow gamers in this situation :D

    Why would you post about this? If you want to keep them this isn’t the way to go.
    I don't think it's any secret. Kabam knows all the accounts that had crystals, they looked them over and did what they wanted. If they wanted to take those characters too, they would have.

    I guess this is due to the fact that there was no direct violation of ToS in this situation. I don't really feel sorry for my account if something happened to it, but there are people who have invested a lot of money in the game. Applying too harsh measures could cause too much wrangling in a situation where the company clearly doesn't have much of a legal standing.
  • ValueGamingValueGaming Member Posts: 14

    Shregokii said:

    A lot of people are now unhappy with the Kabam after the fix. But I'm happy with everything, opening this crystals was fun. Plus tried playing a bunch of 6* characters. Had a lot of fun over the weeks. One day ban is a paltry price to pay for that. Plus I got really lucky with 7* pulls and those characters stayed on my account. So a big kudos to the guys at Kabam. And thanks to the community for supporting fellow gamers in this situation :D

    Why would you post about this? If you want to keep them this isn’t the way to go.
    I don't think it's any secret. Kabam knows all the accounts that had crystals, they looked them over and did what they wanted. If they wanted to take those characters too, they would have.

    I guess this is due to the fact that there was no direct violation of ToS in this situation. I don't really feel sorry for my account if something happened to it, but there are people who have invested a lot of money in the game. Applying too harsh measures could cause too much wrangling in a situation where the company clearly doesn't have much of a legal standing.
    Exploiting a bug is a direct violation of the ToS. They don't even need a reason to terminate your account as you don't own anything in it. It's one of the very first things listed in the ToS.

    That's all the legal standing they need.
    Lol, ok. For people who apparently know how to google, but still can't do logical steps. To exploit something, there has to be a vulnerability. People doing their usual in-game routine, because of an extra zero put by an office clerk, do not become exploiters. Because each of their actions and in individual and in combination are not unusual. As well as the work of the program, which did what it had to do: gave exactly the reward for the quest that was written there and was written. I think it's gonna take O.J. Simpson-level lawyers to push your point here, buddy :D

    And, I guess, you still need to google what a bug is :#
  • smdam38smdam38 Member Posts: 1,660 ★★★
    @Demonzfyre is super annoying. One of 3 shills I’ve seen here.

    I think you’re right. Opening crystals is not “unusual”.
    I didn’t get or open these crystals.

    I think folks that did should get to keep the rewards and send a lesson to Kabaam to stop making such huge mistakes.
  • DemonzfyreDemonzfyre Member Posts: 22,607 ★★★★★

    Shregokii said:

    A lot of people are now unhappy with the Kabam after the fix. But I'm happy with everything, opening this crystals was fun. Plus tried playing a bunch of 6* characters. Had a lot of fun over the weeks. One day ban is a paltry price to pay for that. Plus I got really lucky with 7* pulls and those characters stayed on my account. So a big kudos to the guys at Kabam. And thanks to the community for supporting fellow gamers in this situation :D

    Why would you post about this? If you want to keep them this isn’t the way to go.
    I don't think it's any secret. Kabam knows all the accounts that had crystals, they looked them over and did what they wanted. If they wanted to take those characters too, they would have.

    I guess this is due to the fact that there was no direct violation of ToS in this situation. I don't really feel sorry for my account if something happened to it, but there are people who have invested a lot of money in the game. Applying too harsh measures could cause too much wrangling in a situation where the company clearly doesn't have much of a legal standing.
    Exploiting a bug is a direct violation of the ToS. They don't even need a reason to terminate your account as you don't own anything in it. It's one of the very first things listed in the ToS.

    That's all the legal standing they need.
    Lol, ok. For people who apparently know how to google, but still can't do logical steps. To exploit something, there has to be a vulnerability. People doing their usual in-game routine, because of an extra zero put by an office clerk, do not become exploiters. Because each of their actions and in individual and in combination are not unusual. As well as the work of the program, which did what it had to do: gave exactly the reward for the quest that was written there and was written. I think it's gonna take O.J. Simpson-level lawyers to push your point here, buddy :D

    And, I guess, you still need to google what a bug is :#

    Section 5.of the ToS states you don't own your account.


    An official post regarding exploits from the MCOC team. https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/136840/regarding-bounty-mission-exploit#latest

    https://www.cyberdefinitions.com/definitions/BUG.html
    Definition of bug. Technically what happened isn't a bug by definition. It's not even a glitch.

    This wasn't an "extra zero". This was a code error that gave crystals instead of shards.

    You can spin it however you want. There's more.than enough standing to show that you're wrong on every level.
  • DemonzfyreDemonzfyre Member Posts: 22,607 ★★★★★
    smdam38 said:

    @Demonzfyre is super annoying. One of 3 shills I’ve seen here.

    I think you’re right. Opening crystals is not “unusual”.
    I didn’t get or open these crystals.

    I think folks that did should get to keep the rewards and send a lesson to Kabaam to stop making such huge mistakes.

    You weren't supposed to get crystals. But yes, keep calling me a shill. You're still wrong.
  • ValueGamingValueGaming Member Posts: 14

    Shregokii said:

    A lot of people are now unhappy with the Kabam after the fix. But I'm happy with everything, opening this crystals was fun. Plus tried playing a bunch of 6* characters. Had a lot of fun over the weeks. One day ban is a paltry price to pay for that. Plus I got really lucky with 7* pulls and those characters stayed on my account. So a big kudos to the guys at Kabam. And thanks to the community for supporting fellow gamers in this situation :D

    Why would you post about this? If you want to keep them this isn’t the way to go.
    I don't think it's any secret. Kabam knows all the accounts that had crystals, they looked them over and did what they wanted. If they wanted to take those characters too, they would have.

    I guess this is due to the fact that there was no direct violation of ToS in this situation. I don't really feel sorry for my account if something happened to it, but there are people who have invested a lot of money in the game. Applying too harsh measures could cause too much wrangling in a situation where the company clearly doesn't have much of a legal standing.
    Exploiting a bug is a direct violation of the ToS. They don't even need a reason to terminate your account as you don't own anything in it. It's one of the very first things listed in the ToS.

    That's all the legal standing they need.
    Lol, ok. For people who apparently know how to google, but still can't do logical steps. To exploit something, there has to be a vulnerability. People doing their usual in-game routine, because of an extra zero put by an office clerk, do not become exploiters. Because each of their actions and in individual and in combination are not unusual. As well as the work of the program, which did what it had to do: gave exactly the reward for the quest that was written there and was written. I think it's gonna take O.J. Simpson-level lawyers to push your point here, buddy :D

    And, I guess, you still need to google what a bug is :#

    Section 5.of the ToS states you don't own your account.


    An official post regarding exploits from the MCOC team. https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/136840/regarding-bounty-mission-exploit#latest

    https://www.cyberdefinitions.com/definitions/BUG.html
    Definition of bug. Technically what happened isn't a bug by definition. It's not even a glitch.

    This wasn't an "extra zero". This was a code error that gave crystals instead of shards.

    You can spin it however you want. There's more.than enough standing to show that you're wrong on every level.
    Dude, you show section six, but in the text you say section five. And none of them say anything about the account. I don't get full copyright on a character when I pull it out of the crystal and can't commercialize it, that's frustrating news! This is getting hard to read, some random collection of words and posts, sorry mate.
  • DemonzfyreDemonzfyre Member Posts: 22,607 ★★★★★

    Shregokii said:

    A lot of people are now unhappy with the Kabam after the fix. But I'm happy with everything, opening this crystals was fun. Plus tried playing a bunch of 6* characters. Had a lot of fun over the weeks. One day ban is a paltry price to pay for that. Plus I got really lucky with 7* pulls and those characters stayed on my account. So a big kudos to the guys at Kabam. And thanks to the community for supporting fellow gamers in this situation :D

    Why would you post about this? If you want to keep them this isn’t the way to go.
    I don't think it's any secret. Kabam knows all the accounts that had crystals, they looked them over and did what they wanted. If they wanted to take those characters too, they would have.

    I guess this is due to the fact that there was no direct violation of ToS in this situation. I don't really feel sorry for my account if something happened to it, but there are people who have invested a lot of money in the game. Applying too harsh measures could cause too much wrangling in a situation where the company clearly doesn't have much of a legal standing.
    Exploiting a bug is a direct violation of the ToS. They don't even need a reason to terminate your account as you don't own anything in it. It's one of the very first things listed in the ToS.

    That's all the legal standing they need.
    Lol, ok. For people who apparently know how to google, but still can't do logical steps. To exploit something, there has to be a vulnerability. People doing their usual in-game routine, because of an extra zero put by an office clerk, do not become exploiters. Because each of their actions and in individual and in combination are not unusual. As well as the work of the program, which did what it had to do: gave exactly the reward for the quest that was written there and was written. I think it's gonna take O.J. Simpson-level lawyers to push your point here, buddy :D

    And, I guess, you still need to google what a bug is :#

    Section 5.of the ToS states you don't own your account.


    An official post regarding exploits from the MCOC team. https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/136840/regarding-bounty-mission-exploit#latest

    https://www.cyberdefinitions.com/definitions/BUG.html
    Definition of bug. Technically what happened isn't a bug by definition. It's not even a glitch.

    This wasn't an "extra zero". This was a code error that gave crystals instead of shards.

    You can spin it however you want. There's more.than enough standing to show that you're wrong on every level.
    Dude, you show section six, but in the text you say section five. And none of them say anything about the account. I don't get full copyright on a character when I pull it out of the crystal and can't commercialize it, that's frustrating news! This is getting hard to read, some random collection of words and posts, sorry mate.
    This is the answer I expected.
  • smdam38smdam38 Member Posts: 1,660 ★★★
    @Demonzfyre Maybe shill was a bit harsh. I apologize for that.

    But you honestly have to hold the game folks more accountable than the people that took advantage of the exploit right?
  • DemonzfyreDemonzfyre Member Posts: 22,607 ★★★★★
    smdam38 said:

    @Demonzfyre Maybe shill was a bit harsh. I apologize for that.

    But you honestly have to hold the game folks more accountable than the people that took advantage of the exploit right?

    No one's arguing that they shouldn't account for their mistakes. They should but you, and OP should also admit you're wrong doing as well.
  • smdam38smdam38 Member Posts: 1,660 ★★★
    What should I admit to doing wrong?
    I play for fun and have never exploited or cheated.
  • DemonzfyreDemonzfyre Member Posts: 22,607 ★★★★★
    smdam38 said:

    What should I admit to doing wrong?
    I play for fun and have never exploited or cheated.

    Did you open any of the 1250 mythic crystals? If yes, you exploited. If no, then you didn't.
  • ItsClobberinTimeItsClobberinTime Member Posts: 5,444 ★★★★★
    Can confirm, this person didn't lose his 7* either, he was Cav before the exploit so there's absolutely no way he got 7k 7* shards from 6* dupes (not from the mythic crystals of course).

  • smdam38smdam38 Member Posts: 1,660 ★★★
    Naw. I’m just watching the aftermath.
  • smdam38smdam38 Member Posts: 1,660 ★★★
    Just seeing how badly they to “fix” this.
  • SearmenisSearmenis Member Posts: 1,704 ★★★★★
    Devil's advocate:

    Well, something was legitimately offered as a choice for a certain progression. People that had the right to choose their progression s reward, did chose it. That s how games work, we don't make choices based on speculating that they may be bugged. If I was looking at July 4th s Odin offer and I was "oh man, this is way too much, it must be bugged" and didn't purchased it, I would ve been the stupid one, right? But I forgot, there s money involved there.
  • smdam38smdam38 Member Posts: 1,660 ★★★
    I think everyone is good.
    Not players fault for playing the game.
    I’m all in on next exploit.

    It’s their fault and not yours.
  • RonSwansonRonSwanson Member Posts: 1,171 ★★★★
    smdam38 said:

    I think everyone is good.
    Not players fault for playing the game.
    I’m all in on next exploit.

    It’s their fault and not yours.

    It's on both, not just them.
  • Trafalgarwar96Trafalgarwar96 Member Posts: 616 ★★★★

    A lot of people are now unhappy with the Kabam after the fix. But I'm happy with everything, opening this crystals was fun. Plus tried playing a bunch of 6* characters. Had a lot of fun over the weeks. One day ban is a paltry price to pay for that. Plus I got really lucky with 7* pulls and those characters stayed on my account. So a big kudos to the guys at Kabam. And thanks to the community for supporting fellow gamers in this situation :D

    Are you also proud of it?
  • DemonzfyreDemonzfyre Member Posts: 22,607 ★★★★★
    smdam38 said:

    That’s kind of a matter of opinion.

    This person played an online game in the way it’s supposed to be played. Tapped on a button and got what the game gave him.
    The game gave him too much stuff?

    That’s on them, not the person playing the game.

    Just stop already. That is not even remotely how it works.
  • smdam38smdam38 Member Posts: 1,660 ★★★
    So tell us how it works.
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