According to ChainCatcher, after the Catizen airdrop distribution information was announced, some players were dissatisfied with the uncommunicated changes to the token distribution model and distribution standards. The developer Pluto Studio admitted that they did not disclose the changes in the standards in advance. After the CATI airdrop interface was opened, many players expressed their disappointment on X because the reward share they received was lower than expected.
In addition to this, the Catizen team previously stated that the player's vKitty earning rate in the game will be the main determinant of the airdrop distribution. But earlier last Sunday, after revealing the airdrop distribution to players, Pluto said that it had actually changed the design of the airdrop after discovering that some players used means to artificially increase their income. It said: "During the review of the data for this CATI airdrop, we found that many robot accounts took advantage of this public rule and tried to obtain a large number of CATI tokens by using scripts to increase their vKitty earning rate.
In this case, following the original airdrop criteria would have severely harmed the interests of real players and community supporters. Therefore, the airdrop criteria were adjusted to minimize the rate at which vKitty is monetized, focusing instead on 'factors that more accurately reflect real player activity, such as: on-chain interactions, task completion, fish coin purchases and spending.'" Decrypt reached out to Pluto Studio for comment, including why it did not ban cheating players but instead changed the criteria for all users, but did not immediately receive a response.
