Controversy surrounds Hamster Kombat’s token giveaway

[Cryptocrit]

Kir Gusev “Most of the people who played the viral crypto game Hamster Kombat will likely earn a maximum of just $10 each when the HMSTR token starts trading on exchanges like Binance and OKX on Thursday.”

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Hamster Kombat, a popular game on Telegram, recently faced controversy over its airdrop, a process where free cryptocurrency tokens are distributed to users. This week, the airdrop was criticized for alleged unfair distribution. The developers aimed to reward honest players by disqualifying 2.3 million users for cheating, stating, "Cheating is bad" in a message sent to these users in September.

Despite the efforts to ensure fair play, both banned and eligible players are now accusing the Hamster Foundation, the creators of Hamster Kombat, of unfairly denying them their earned tokens. Only 43% of the game's 300 million players, approximately 131 million people, received the HMSTR airdrop. Many of the 2.3 million banned users argue they did not cheat and were unjustly disqualified.

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[Wiwo]

The Hamster game received wide public adoption and for sure there will be many of the airdrops participants that will try to cheat the system, such as enroling alt accounts and also double tapping from two devices and referring themselves to warn more tokens, this is what is expected in any such bounties and the team are aware of this so they must  put mechanism in place to detect and banned those found wanting.

But I the issue of their token distributions, the project did what most team would n the class will do, that is putting themselves first by accumulating alot of money to themselves and giving peanuts to their airdrops patticipants against the agreed and promised amount.

[el kaka22]

Expecting more than this was the real trouble, I think they paid more than enough and it is not really that shocking to see this result at all.

I believe that people just fooled themselves by expecting more than this, but the reality is that this is what we could have done and nothing more, we need to end up realizing that this is going to eb something that will not be all that complicated to see that this was a "success" even, just because you expected more doesn't mean that they failed, they distributed tens of millions of dollars to people, and that should be a success story, not a failure. People just have weird expectations when they are hyped, they shouldn't really be considering this as their solution to anything.

[Coin_trader]

I don’t understand what the fuck controversy revolving on this issue while every just play free game and earn airdrop. There’s financial investment involved so why participants expect significant gain on this shit token.

The cheating is inevitable on this type of giveaway since it’s very common for user to do multiple account just earn big given that it only requires telegram account to create an account.

This is a big issue if the token is backed token sales in the public.

[Sovannar Sangha]

The Hamster game received wide public adoption and for sure there will be many of the airdrops participants that will try to cheat the system, such as enroling alt accounts and also double tapping from two devices and referring themselves to warn more tokens, this is what is expected in any such bounties and the team are aware of this so they must  put mechanism in place to detect and banned those found wanting.

But I the issue of their token distributions, the project did what most team would n the class will do, that is putting themselves first by accumulating alot of money to themselves and giving peanuts to their airdrops patticipants against the agreed and promised amount.

It could be that the devs/teams will be more selective. I think that kind of thing seems prone to happen and is generally like that, let's say at least 1 cellphone can use up to 3 accounts. If those who have paid for premium telegrams I think there will be even more. But it goes back to each participant and I'm sure if playing it safe, only one account will be focused on.

[bitbollo]

Personally I don't see any controversy here. it's pretty normal that this is a game, and all efforts are towards... a game!
People that want become millionaire just tapping some applications must learn a bit more about economy.
With hundreds of milion of players, how much it could be the real value of an airdrop? I am still surprised of that result...

[coin-investor]

Kir Gusev “Most of the people who played the viral crypto game Hamster Kombat will likely earn a maximum of just $10 each when the HMSTR token starts trading on exchanges like Binance and OKX on Thursday.”

And yet many people do not expect this when distribution arrives, Hamster has been a big jokes on social media; they are expecting to be an overnight rich people and they were all laughing and disappointment after receiving their allocations, this is just one of the example.

Hamster Kombat, a popular game on Telegram, recently faced controversy over its airdrop, a process where free cryptocurrency tokens are distributed to users. This week, the airdrop was criticized for alleged unfair distribution. The developers aimed to reward honest players by disqualifying 2.3 million users for cheating, stating, "Cheating is bad" in a message sent to these users in September.

I'm not tolerating cheaters but they should have given the warning when they are working and ranking their points by disabling their accounts so the participants are warned on the consequences

Despite the efforts to ensure fair play, both banned and eligible players are now accusing the Hamster Foundation, the creators of Hamster Kombat, of unfairly denying them their earned tokens. Only 43% of the game's 300 million players, approximately 131 million people, received the HMSTR airdrop. Many of the 2.3 million banned users argue they did not cheat and were unjustly disqualified.

This is expected on a platform with an unexpected burst of participants, Many of the participants are new to Cryptocurrency so they do not know how these things work, they felt that they were taken for a ride.