Rebirth Master said:
Hello everyone,
Jij29 has copied the message of our official position concerning this case:
We are sorry that the free packs were released unexpectedly. Still, the packs were available in the game for several minutes. Only a small percentage of the players have managed to get them.
We will not withdraw the content of the packs from the accounts that have received the packs. Also, we do not plan to enable these free packs again.
Based on this experience, we will do our best to avoid such situations when the game gets officially released worldwide.
Once again, please accept our apologies for the inconvenience this situation might have caused.
I would like to add a few words to the statement above.
I understand all the players who did not receive the free packs, but the packs were available for all the users on the server for several minutes and anyone could have gotten them.
Anyway, the developers have already adjusted the server and such cases should not bother you in the future.
First as somebody else posted
Violation of Google Play Developer user agreement 3.5.
3.5 You may also choose to distribute Products for free. If the Product is free, you will not be charged a Transaction Fee. You may not start charging a user for a Product that was initially free unless the charge correlates with an alternative version of the Product. The Payment Processor must process all fees a Developer receives for any version of a Product distributed via Google Play.
Also what a load of shit. The packs were not available to everybody at all. It said free for some people but not many. Instead most of us have no way of competing in pvp now. People who got the packs can farm much more than the rest of us plus no doubt bought more shards with the gems creating more of a gap.
The fact that this is your response is unacceptable and it has been reported to google play. Keep treating your playerbase like this and you won't have a playerbase at all.