If they’re only going to give units back, it should be significantly more units than 300. If that’s what they value the gifting badge at, that’s what they should have charged for it. Absolutely ridiculous.
Just ban the people who do this, don’t punish the rest of us!
And just to reiterate, if you value the badge at 300 units, should have sold it for $10. I’ll be getting my refund from apple, as well.
Once again, we are the ones being punished for Kabam being utterly incompetent Is anyone here really even surprised? By the way as someone mentioned already above - don't try to tell us you didn't know about this during Christmas gifting, Kabam Truth is you like a good fraud, but only when you are the ones commiting it, right?
To go with this Kabam will make their prices reasonable. Team revive will now cost 50 units instead of 100 and single revive is 20 instead of 40. AQ and AW potions are ok to stay expensive because you can use glory. Thank you for being reasonable !
It's not like it was permanently removed from the game ... It's just suspended, that's it. If it ever gets fixed, it will be back. And you are getting free units for it, so it's a win-win situation for now.
I am in agreement. 300 units is not compensation for the $30 that we had to pay in order to unlock the gifting badge. The compensation needs to be a higher number of units at a minimum.
Additionally - rather than completely remove it, why not add logic in to ban the people that were taking advantage of the system instead of punishing everyone. Not all of us are cheaters. Some of us unlocked it so that we could help others in our alliance when they needed revives or potions. I know that I relied upon the generosity of my alliance mates for this as well.
I feel like there has to be a rule against removing something after people have paid real money for it. You can’t legally just discontinue a service that others have paid for and not refund them a real dollar amount. In game currency isn’t the equivalent and is “fake” money anyway.
It’s literally like saying “We messed up and didn’t make sure our systems were fool proof before launching it. Thanks for your real currency, here is some Monopoly money. You can use it to buy stuff that we could give to you for free anyway.”
It's not like it was permanently removed from the game ... It's just suspended, that's it. If it ever gets fixed, it will be back. And you are getting free units for it, so it's a win-win situation for now.
Not for those making a push to 100% act 6 and asking for energy refills and revives among ally mates...?
It's not like it was permanently removed from the game ... It's just suspended, that's it. If it ever gets fixed, it will be back. And you are getting free units for it, so it's a win-win situation for now.
It’s not a win-win when they said they are permanently suspending it. It’s only a win if they decide to bring it back which is not guaranteed judging by the announcement.
not sure 300 is appropriate compensation for the loss of the badge for us non whales. I’m thinking the Odin pack that came with most of these badges would be better
It is unfair to remove gifting badge and compensate us with 300 units. I gave $30 really money and if gifting is removed I want my real money refunded as you would if you returned something in real life. If not you should allow us to buy units with Monopoly money.
It's not like it was permanently removed from the game ... It's just suspended, that's it. If it ever gets fixed, it will be back. And you are getting free units for it, so it's a win-win situation for now.
Not for those making a push to 100% act 6 and asking for energy refills and revives among ally mates...?
I don't see energy refils only being available by gifting. You can farm them, gain them in 3-day events, and even buy them for just 30 units
"As of today, we are indefinitely disabling the ability for Summoners to send gifts until further notice."
Until further notice guys. Although I do understand y'alls frustration cause Kabam does some sketchy things and there has been PLENTY of things that have been "trying to fix and bring back" but they haven't.
300 units for paying for a product that when originally bought gave you a gifting badge AND more units...that's also very stupid. Kabam deserves this backlash from people. So everyone trying to be like "calm down" yes I know they said "until further notice" so it's not for ever but the way they are doing this is not a good sell.
I'd put in a ticket with your respective OS companies (apple or google) and try to get a refund from them.
May someone explain what fraud are we talking about? It's just for people sending stuff to their second account???
There were people on social media and the line app offering gifting services. In exchange for say $20 they would send a ridiculous amount of revives, health pots, boosts, etc. Way more than what a player could get with $20 worth of units
Kabam team: well since act 6 came out recently, we could take the gifting badge away to force people to spend more in order to beat it. Just eliminate any help.
As a serious infraction and real life consequences of fraud, I applaud Kabam for doing the right thing. Gifting if done right and obviously within the legal bounds of not committing fraud is a great idea. However over the past few years there have been many issues with people abusing this method. The valuation of 300 units seems fair for a gifting badge. Would it have been nice to receive what ever unit value you purchased your first gifting badge at? Sure it would. But for the times that the team does something right that has real world consequences, good for them! They did the right thing! #GiftingGate Good job Kabam!
So we had to spend $30 to get this and we are given $10 in "compensation" for an item that has proven to be valuable in me completing content like Act 6 with the help of alliance mates? Look, you take away something like asking for help sure, we get it. But we had to use actual cash to pay you and you throw a 5th of what we paid as a guise for compensation with knowing you've updated ToS after 12.0 that in-game content can change at any time so no one will be able to get a refund. The past month has been a spit in the face for players like me and many others who have been honest and committed for years. You take our 4 stars we spent resources on (when they were 'scarce'), give new players easier access to newer players because the resources are 'easier' for us to get and because we completed them early on we don't have the need for these resources (?) then tell us that "it's only 10 PHC" but still reward us with PHC twice a week for week-long events, and finally just go ahead and take an item that literally only people who have spent on your game own and give some meager 'compensation' because people were abusing it so we are all punished? I've said it before but now I know for a fact: you really don't like us anymore.
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I bought the Tony Stark briefcase to get my badge, if Kabam values 850 at £30 that's what I should get back
Just ban the people who do this, don’t punish the rest of us!
And just to reiterate, if you value the badge at 300 units, should have sold it for $10. I’ll be getting my refund from apple, as well.
And you are getting free units for it, so it's a win-win situation for now.
Additionally - rather than completely remove it, why not add logic in to ban the people that were taking advantage of the system instead of punishing everyone. Not all of us are cheaters. Some of us unlocked it so that we could help others in our alliance when they needed revives or potions. I know that I relied upon the generosity of my alliance mates for this as well.
It’s literally like saying “We messed up and didn’t make sure our systems were fool proof before launching it. Thanks for your real currency, here is some Monopoly money. You can use it to buy stuff that we could give to you for free anyway.”
Until further notice guys. Although I do understand y'alls frustration cause Kabam does some sketchy things and there has been PLENTY of things that have been "trying to fix and bring back" but they haven't.
300 units for paying for a product that when originally bought gave you a gifting badge AND more units...that's also very stupid. Kabam deserves this backlash from people. So everyone trying to be like "calm down" yes I know they said "until further notice" so it's not for ever but the way they are doing this is not a good sell.
I'd put in a ticket with your respective OS companies (apple or google) and try to get a refund from them.
Kabam team: well since act 6 came out recently, we could take the gifting badge away to force people to spend more in order to beat it. Just eliminate any help.
Kabam CEO: yes, excellent!
Wouldn’t this solve most of the issue? If not, we should get a refund of at least 850 units, preferably more
you really don't like us anymore.