**Mastery Loadouts**
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Gifting Badge Discussion [Merged Threads]
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Banning just opens them up to creating more Accounts.
involving stolen credit cards, chargebacks and so on.
its not as simple as call the police and catch the criminal and get your money back.
investigations take a long time.
cyber crime involves people with using encryption software and it becomes very hard to track who they are and where they are.
Fraud is mostly about prevention.
Fraud and online theft is not something one can simply stop.
people with the attitude like you make iut seem like it is Little John in his basement stealing mums creditcard.
Its not.
its people committing serious criminal activity.
its not just this game it happens in many many games.
one of the easiest ways for cyber criminals to launder stolen money is via things just like this. selling discounted online virtual items and currencys.
the people that do this dont just sell a little bit of MCOC items on the side for a bit of extra cash.
most who do this make huge amounts of money from as many different platforms as possible and are very hard to catch as they make every effort to hide their details.
Fraud prevention is about making it as hard as possible and as time consuming as possible and as inconvenient as possible to make it not worth it.
But since you asked here is an article describing how fraud in mobile games is a multi billion dollar industry
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjSmba_0Z_hAhVIyYMKHUqZCkQQzPwBegQIARAD&url=https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/20/virtual-goods-real-fraud/&psig=AOvVaw12kffBeQJfRzpYU1bV_zcA&ust=1553683846598487
Be happy that Kabam took steps to ensure the game stays around to play.
how hard is that to understand.
if there was no badge i never would have bought it.
they can take the units back,
i really dont care,
but if i cant have my badge i want my money back.
I have never bought any other unit packs.
if i could have got the badge another way i would have done it.
i bought the deal for the badge
i only spent the money for the badge.
i bought the deal with the intended purpose of giofting items. now i can no longer do that.
that is not right.
simple as that.
and as far as TOS goes. read this.
yes thay can change things.
but it still needs to follow relevant law.
and besides they just change the TOS whenever they want.
they say they will tell us of TOS changes. but clearly they don't
https://www.reddit.com/r/ContestOfChampions/comments/b5l51b/kabam_changing_tos_without_notification_big_issue/
expiring items was against the TOS, but they did it anyway,
recently changed the TOS to make it right.
you would buy the fridge and get the free toaster.
if they then came and took the toaster you would be angry.
you would want a refund on the fridge cus you only ever bought it for the toaster.
if there was no toaster you never would have bought the fridge.
yes technically you bought the fridge.
but you bought it under the premise of getting a toaster.
now without the toaster you are angry and what the hell you want the fridge for.
so my question is how this will help to solve the situation( using the stolen information ).
If you have problems with some individuals who are cheating it is your responsibility to catch them and sort it out. But why innocent people like me have to suffer ! First of all I didn't spend units for Gift Badge to be compensated with units I spent real money for it and I am expecting real money back or with a simple words we as a buyers have rights! And with your act you breaking the law! As a example imagine that you buy from the shop TV and the producer find out after 3 years that there is manufacture problem with it and they come in your home take the TV back and as a compensation they giving you aerial vouchers! I am personally not happy with your decision and I am not going to claim your proposed unit! Also I am very concerned about any purchases in the future and I hope that other people will support my opinion!
1. I'd find a place to buy just the toaster.
2. They couldn't take the toaster as its a material object.
3. Try harder with analogies.
You bought access to a service with the badge because that's what it is. They have it written in the ToS that those services can be changed at anytime. This is about something bigger than gifting and goes beyond Kabams control with fraud and stolen info.
We won't know all the details and we can't. Its an investigation. Who knows, maybe they are being instructed to do this until actions can be taken.
Again, the access to the badge was free. Its a virtual item, not a real item. You got what you paid for which was the units. You got an extea 300 units on top of that.
Be mad at the criminals, not Kabam.
I agree that its rented ( it is permanently rented) but when we bought that badge it says permanent gifting badge so it SHOULD STAY WITH MY ACCOUNT IN GAME till the end of the game or till my account has been closed permanently.
We will buy and forget about this.
an no sorry u tell me as much as you want i bought the units and got a free badge,
it aint gunna change the fact i only bough them for the badge and therefore want a refund.
like i said they can even have the 850 units back.
and i am mad at both.
i am mad at the criminals for causing thtis,
and i am mad at kabam for dealing with it the way they have.
i understand they had to do something, but they could have done something better.
also did you read the link to my reddit post about how they just change the TOS and do wat they want there as they see fit too.
personally i believe they have said this just to cover themselves.
but we will see.
but there is no assurance as to when we will ever see it again if infact we will ever see it again.
plain and simple.
only you can purchase for your own account.
If this turns into a permanent removal (barring gifting events set out by Kabam) then further compensation would be applicable and the only resolution to this in my opinion, an acceptable amount would be a further 550 units minimum to equal that which we all paid for when purchasing the badge.
I personally do occasionally spend on the game for personal benefit and progression, but the gifting badge bundle was my one and only spend over 9.99.
If there was such a deal for a fridge and toaster, there will be terms and conditions. So if in those it says they can get the toaster any time, then nothing I can do about it. Same deal here with this situation.
They don't make changes to the Tos whenever they want. They update when needed. If you are saying that, do you have proof with screenshots and a confession from Kabam?
are you gunna be upset bout it? yes.
are you gunna want proper compensation? yes.
just because they can do something doesn't mean it is the right thing to do.
just because their TOS allows them to do it doesn't mean we have to like it.
just because they do it doens't mean we cant can't show them we don't like it and complain about it.
we want them to make the best choices for us, we need to tell them what we want, and we need to tell them when we think they do something wrong
I have screenshots that show what it was, what it is now, and the fact that they said they would tell us of changes and they never did.
and the fact that it states last updated on 3rd Jan 2019 but it has clearly been updated since then as what it was on 26th Jan is not what it is now.
if you read my reddit link you would see all my evidence that highlights that.