Hamster Kombat, a Telegram mini-game that has attracted more than 300 million users into the TON ecosystem, will officially issue the token $HMSTR on September 26. However, it has recently been controversial in the community due to airdrop rules.
Hamster Kombat airdrop rules spark controversy
When Hamster Kombat officially announced the first quarter airdrop rules yesterday, it pointed out that out of a total of 100 billion $HMSTR tokens, this airdrop will release 60 billion tokens, and another 15 billion will be reserved for the upcoming quarter. Season 2 airdrop.
However, players who are eligible for the first quarter air investment can only receive 88.75% of the tokens on September 26, and the remaining 11.25% must wait 10 months, which is expected to be July 2025.
The community screamed that they were cheated
In addition, Hamster Kombat officials also revealed that although 300 million players have played Hamster Kombat, only about 129 million people were ultimately eligible for air investment, and about 2.3 million players were disqualified due to cheating.
The community is also quite dissatisfied with the official weighting allocated in airdrops, especially the emphasis on recent additions such as friend recommendations and earning keys, and criticizes this as favoring influential Internet celebrities and Youtubers, while deceiving the masses. Ordinary players who have been playing games diligently for months to accumulate profit per hour (PPH, similar to the level in the game) , because the official initially publicly stated that PPH will be the most important airdrop standard.
The community even set off a wave of boycott , calling on players to refuse to play the game, unsubscribe from the Hamster Kombat YouTube channel, and stop watching videos, so that the team could not obtain more viewing revenue.
50% of cheaters’ 6.8 billion tokens will be redistributed to honest players
Today (24th), it seems that in order to restore the confidence of the community, the official announced that 50% (that is, 3.4 billion) of the 6.8 billion tokens in the hands of 2.3 million players who were judged as cheaters have been redistributed to For honest players, the other 50% will be burned , reducing the supply and increasing the deflationary effect.
The official tweet stated:
We've banned over 2.3 million cheaters, enough to fill the entire city of Rome!
We have already taken 6.8 billion tokens away from these cheaters. 50% has been allocated to honest players and the other 50% will be burned.
Cheaters do not belong in our community. They realize automation through software to gain a greater advantage than ordinary players. We care about our participants and market participants, especially long-term holders, and want to protect them.
$HMSTR pre-market price performance
However, the community under the tweet does not seem to be willing to pay the price. Some players still question the unfair airdrop rules. Some people say that they are no longer CEOs of Hamster, and some people complain that Hamster Kombat has gone from the largest airdrop in history to the worst airdrop in history.
However, most players are still closely watching the currency price performance on the 26th $HMSTR. $HMSTR has recently been listed for pre-market trading on Bybit, Gate.io, Bitget, BingX, OKX and other exchanges. At the time of writing, the latest transaction prices of OKX, Bybit and Bitget are 0.0088, 0.084, and 0.0096 USDT.
