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Author: Climber, Bitchain Vision
TON eco-game token Hamster Kombat (HMSTR) will be officially launched on major exchanges on September 26, and the project will also airdrop for players on the same day.But what the community members, especially those in-depth game participants, did not expect was that the airdrop rewards and efforts this time were seriously disproportionate.
As of the time of writing, OKX pre-market trading information shows that the trading price of HMSTR is only about US$0.001, and the profit of airdrop reward of 100 HMSTRs is only US$1.In contrast, the previous TON projects of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, such as Notcoin, DOGS, and Catizen, also had a “pig-feet rice”.
In response to this, many community members called themselves deceived and asked Hamster Kombat to redistribute the rewards.However, the game project party seemed to be intentionally making it difficult for the hair-fighting party, not only restricting the proportion of players’ airdrop collection, but also cracking down on cheating.This made the Maolu party hesitate whether to participate in the TON mini-game project that has not been issued.
High popularity and low returns, TON ecological projects have slowed down
Hamster Kombat is a P2E game for cryptocurrency exchange CEO emulator built on the Telegram applet platform.Players can increase their income by completing tasks, upgrading their personal information, inviting friends, etc., and can further expand their income sources through the in-game recommendation system.
The project has quickly accumulated a large number of users through its unique gaming mechanics and extensive community participation.It attracted 239 million people to sign up in three months and applied for the Guinness World Record, becoming the first YouTube channel to have more than 10 million subscribers in a week.Now Hamster Games has nearly 300 million user groups, with 82 million monthly active users and an average daily active users of 32 million.TG CEO even called Hamster Game the latest Internet phenomenon, which has triggered cultural outbreaks.
The core token of Hamster Kombat is HMSTR, which players can earn and trade this token in the game to upgrade their character, participate in limited-time activities, unlock rare items, etc.This token is not only used for in-game transactions, but also plays an important role in the platform’s economic system.
Not long ago, Hamster Kombat announced that it will launch major mainstream trading platforms on September 26 and simultaneously airdrops.With the announcement of the airdrop mechanism and the prices displayed on pre-market exchanges, community members found that the benefits they could obtain were extremely meager.
According to official tweets, players can only receive 88.75% of the tokens, and the remaining 11.25% will have to wait 10 months and are expected to be collected in July 2025.Hamster Kombat team revealed that of the 300 million players who have played Telegram games so far, only about 129 million ultimately qualifies.Of the 100 billion HMSTR tokens in total, 60 billion will be issued in this airdrop, and another 15 billion will be reserved for the upcoming game season 2.
And previously, Hamster Kombat posted a statement saying that it has launched anti-cheating tests, and some cheaters will unlock the “cheating is bad” achievements to convey important reminders to cheaters.Officials said it hopes to protect players and community members of the hard-working “liver” game and give them a chance to gain a fair share of airdrops.
Afterwards, about 2.3 million users were “banned for cheating” to receive airdrops, and the project party said it had recovered 6.8 billion tokens from these cheaters.50% have been distributed to honest players, and another 50% will be burned.
However, the project party’s airdrop attitude is very high-profile, but the pattern seems a bit narrow, and the benefits given to players are almost negligible.According to OKX pre-market trading information, the price of HMSTR is only around US$0.001.
A certain level 7 Hamster Kombat user received 100 airdrop HMSTR tokens, which only earned 1 USD at the current price.
The picture above is a popular TON project listing produced by a member of a certain community. Judging from the popularity of the listed projects and the benefits of previous airdrop participants, the highest returns are NOT, followed by DOGS and CATI, which basically pays a certain amount of money.The guaranteed income after participating in time and energy is about equal to a “pig’s feet rice”.(Note: The highest price of CATI is now US$1.11 and the lowest is US$0.73)
Hamster Kombat requires players to participate for half a year, but the final distribution of rewards is very small, which makes many community members angry.
Hamster Kombat is caught in a “scam” storm
As early as June 7, Hamster Kombat posted that user airdrop allocation will depend on profit per hour (PPH) and some other activity parameters released by the team in the future, rather than the amount of token balances.In addition, Binance Launchpool and Super Earning Coin announced the launch of the project, which has also made many players devote more time and energy.However, the rewards the project party gave to the players are very interesting.
This airdrop distribution mechanism by Hamster Kombat project party first angered Russian players. Local media pointed out that “after playing the game for several months”, players’ efforts “can only get $5 to $15” rewards.Viktor Pershikov, a crypto security expert in the country, said those who “want to get rich by playing Hamster Kombat” are “finding their expectations are failing”, which will put their tokens at the expense of selling pressure when they open transactions.
Interestingly, in July, the chairman of the Russian State Duma Financial Markets Committee called Hamster Kombat a “scam”, manipulative and deceptive.He said the project is to manipulate and exploit the civic psychology, especially those who don’t really want to work, but dream that they can get rich with the least effort
In addition, Aksakov also criticized the activities that Hamster Kombat users need to complete in order to obtain airdrops, saying that “people are easily deceived.”
However, many people still flock to the wealth effect brought by multiple ecological projects under the previous TON narrative popularity.When HMSTR made the community work hard for several months, but in the end it only gave players a meager income, many people began to accuse the project of fooling players, and even called the project a “scam.”
Community member @TheSolucky said Hamster said they will allocate airdrops based on PPH, but ultimately it will be based on the number of invited friends. Isn’t this a scam?
However, there are also community members who believe that Hamster Kombat is not a scam and defend it.
KOL@s0meone_u_know believes that even if the airdrop reward is disproportionate to the player’s efforts, this is not a scam, because the project party allows players to obtain funds for free.
In response, another community member @iamdeejayjet retorted that airdrop rewards are not free money because users invest time, data, dedication, and they bring the project globally.However, the project party has obtained revenue through monetization and CEX traffic.
CryptoKingKeyur conducted a cross-examination, saying that Hamster Kombat has different words and deeds and has deceited users.First, there is no mention of 12% of the tokens to be locked, followed by the promise of the largest airdrop in history, and the community has received 60% of the total allocation, but most players have spent months of their efforts and only obtainedVery few rewards.
Regarding Hamster Kombat’s meager rewards, some community members said they would unite to unify them.
KOL@Cryptowithkhan said Hamster Kombat cheated on the community and it is time to repay them.The project party uses player attention to earn traffic on YouTube to earn huge amounts of money, but it does not give back to gamers.He has already canceled the following on every social media platform, and now hopes other community members can do the same.If the player remains silent, more projects like Hamster Kombat will appear.
Conclusion
Hamster Kombat’s airdrops this time are so few that it is unacceptable, especially those who have put in a lot of time and energy into the hair.However, the project party’s attitude in airdrops was very high-profile. Judging from the project’s launch time, the strength of witch cheating, and the operation of batch airdrops, it seemed to have a big-haired style.However, the benefits given to players in the end are very rare. This is obviously a kind of harm for both the community and projects that have not yet issued coins on TON, especially the hair-fighting party needs to carefully consider the efforts of subsequent TON projects.Weigh it.
