I’m about to, going to stay the course for the guild for a bit, until they can find a replacement.
I cannot believe people thought they could keep the loot after someone ran to forums to report issue. When someone does this it forces the devs hand because half the people will be locked out from getting things the other half got. I do not run to forums to report stuff myself because there are so many bugs in this game that have not been addressed that hurt the player so why would I run here to report anything that helps the player. What I will do is complain if some are getting free loot because they are in a different time zone. In other words I will complain if I see unfairness. I will let the devs figure out the bugs because they are getting paid I am not.
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People are not angry because they took back the shiny keys/levels. They are angry because this shows the devs are capable of fixing things in a short turnaround when it is related to money while millions of bugs that hurt the players get ignored or deemed “not possible”.
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perfectly explained, I don’t care about the shiny keys which are absolutely useless, since the units for which they are used have no interest. On the other hand, their incompetence in correcting bugs when it is not a question of money exasperates me. So like the majority of people, I am going to stop this game, where the devs do not respect the players
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OK, actually I didn’t expect that developers would let us keep the keys. But it was worth trying. My 631 keys were returned, and I’m back to not bother opening them. (I’m waiting for the decent troop to max. By now there have been only one - Venerabilax)
But now, when I have realised that these devs of ours can actually code (surprise surprise) I can’t help but wonder. The community has been concerned about the Soulforge mythic rotation FOR YEARS!!! Nothing has been done. When Kafka was around, she used to respond that something was being done, but it was difficult to change old code. Then it was radio silence again.
I beg, please, increase the number of mythics in the Soulforge. That’s something that affects everyone.
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Why have my 5 Toxic Hag shiny tokens been stolen? Raid Boss offered 5 tokens as a reward for portal 12. Which my guild finished. I’ve collected them and my troop is at 0 again.
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Same here, my Toxic hag tokens disappear/stolen from my account,maybe another tokens stolen too i don’t know,and my shiny keys from Raid event stolen too?im sure about toxic hag token drop me from Raid event shiny keys.
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Exactly the same with the Toxic Hag!
And 1 extra key has been erased and not added back.
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The devs did say returning keys would be part of this 2nd phase of the fix:
Any new Shiny Keys purchased or rewarded after the bug was fixed that have been used to open Shiny Chests will be given back as part of this process.
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If there’s anything positive I’ve drawn from this debacle, it’s that I’ll never again feel an inkling of FOMO for shiny keys.
I was able to claim and redeem the erroneous reward, and took some time to look through my library afterward. After literally thousands of keys used, I know now just how barely-noticeable a boost it gives to troops who were largely mediocre or unusable to start with.
And if you (for some reason) accept the devs’ valuation of them, this worthless level of reward is sequestered behind a price tag of literally thousands and thousands of dollars. I used to make an occasional effort toward earning what meager keys and tokens they offered as rewards, but now I know I needn’t bother.
If tomorrow morning a flash deal showed up offering 13,397 shiny keys for $20 USD, I wouldn’t even bother taking it. True to their name, it’s all glow and zero substance. Thank you, devs, for permanently scrubbing the shine from shiny keys.
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Totally agree. I also want to point out that those I spoke to (who used the keys) all agreed it needed at least 3K shiny keys to get everything to max. Doing the maths on how many shiny keys I CAN get each week (and I might not get that each week), and the frequency they add new troops that need shiny tokens, I will never max everything. From a completionism point of view, there’s no point in even trying.
As far as getting X number of shiny troops to Y level, for trophies/achievements, it’s also basically impossible for most players without spending money. And now we see just how useless shiny levels are, why would anyone spend money on them?
Basically, getting shiny keys just showed there’s no point in having them and I suspect that’s why there has been hardly any backlash against having the keys taken away. People care more about how fast they fixed it and how that shows they can fix issues but choose not to.
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As it stands currently, every week, you only earn 5 tokens + 7 shiny keys without buying headstart offers by completing guild events. Buying 3 shiny keys a day in the pvp shop gets you 21 more. Every troop needs 35 tokens to max out, so see what they did here? You only get 5+7+21=33 tokens worth of progress if you want to waste gold marks.
That is why they have the headstart offers because the 5 tokens and 4 shiny keys puts you “ahead” of the rate that shiny troops are added. But it has horrible value when you compare that to things like the campaign pass because they are priced the same.
There is the math. Don’t buy shiny keys or waste gold marks on them. The whales will keep funding the game and life will go on. Maybe if we got 13,397 burning marks they would have fixed some issues in PvP.
Well done, “Sirrian Task Force,” shiny keys are now valuable again (not really)
Absolutely pathetic…
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Still absolute radio silence from any dev on this team. Sickening to see what us as a player base has to deal with and continues to deal with year after year.
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Kept the achievement, they can have the dog doodoo, shiny dust.
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Gman has been updating in this thread while I have been away sick…
Following up on Shiny tokens earned from Raid Boss, that were removed when they should have been as well. Hopefully have more information while I catch up from being away.
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https://www.xbox.com/play/media/psXPGJgjag
https://www.xbox.com/play/media/UE6seizCfG
I don’t know if my attachments will work. I had 97 shiny keys before I received the 13k shiny keys. (Top picture) and only received 90 shiny keys when my account was restored (bottom picture). I received my TOD shiny keys through the mail on Monday so I believe those 7 shiny keys were not restored to my account.
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@ Devs
What a disgrace to behave like this with players!
Not only are you creating bugs (13,397 shiny keys instead of the Pet),
I thought it wasn’t a bug, seeing as we already had this Pet! But, just in case, I didn’t use those keys! But the worst part is, to apologize, you ONLY gave out 3! Honestly, isn’t that disrespectful???
The most logical thing is to receive 50!
But hey, you don’t know what respect is!
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Why 50 only? 1337 
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