Sadly you don’t even realise that for the devs it makes only the one difference if they’d compensate you 50gems or 500gems: For the person typing it in to press “0” once more, nothing else. Wouldn’t break any economy in the game. But to be realistic, this failed newspost doesn’t need any compensation at all. It would need someone “official” to quickly acknowledge the failure which would be enough in terms of transparency and as “making amends” (or whatever this should be called) and to then close the topic for good, not just silently delete it. The whole topic here is just a bit of amusement - because of the inactions.
Compared to what “major fails” have been pulled in the last 6 months alone it seems delusional to think 50 measly gems for every gow mod/dev bed wetting could restore any trust. That trust has been kicked low throughout countless very sadly handled “mistakes” (as “the team” liekes to call it) of which I’d guess most of them aren’t even acknowledged by them and instead at some point just got ignored completely. That trust has also been destroyed by a “we’re not interested in what we may have promised in writing yesterday…” -mentality that shows throughout the last years and can be re-read here until the topic seemingly got too annoying and “threatening” to be kept open, how dare the pawns try to speak up!
Really making amends would mean to finally see transparency shown by the mod team. There’s certain topics that just ran dry over the course of time because every attempt of questioning about that topic just doesn’t receive any official answers anymore. If there’s no work done on it anymore or it can’t or won’t be done then just say so. People won’t be happy about it then, but personally I’d appreciate the information because it would lead to everyone being able to plan ahead accordingly. It would lead to so much less awkward squirming around that can be perceived as either disinterest or straight ignorance. The forum mod "we’re incredibly sorry"™ line is maybe already on a macro key bind. But noone really needs 50gems here.
We’d need a active mod team that shows transparency in what they do and consistency in that. What we don’t need is a “sneak peak” for the next 6 months of which half of it gets delayed or doesn’t come to fruition or gets announced cryptically and will only lead to “having to play more”. Because despite that being described as “fun”, it isn’t.