Summary
After a controversial 48 hours,Marvel Snap, the hit comic book-themed collectible card game,is back online in the United States. Previously,the app was caught in the crossfire of the larger TikTok ban, owing to the game’s connection to Chinese parent company ByteDance.
Indeed, the game, which became unavailable on January 18, has since gone back online as of Jan. 20,according to a post from the game’s developer, Second Dinner. On Friday, in a bid to makeup for the game’s unavailability, the developer’s revealed a “Welcome Back” compensation package for gamers, including those not in the United States.
In a post on Twitter, Second Dinner wrote, “This disruption of service is more than just an unfortunate blip in our eyes. As such, we are not only committed to making up for this disruption, but we want to welcome back players, new and old, with some extra goodies to celebrate.”
Players Are Being Compensated Massively
Per the post details, players in the U.S. over Collection Level 500 will receive:
Those under Collection Level 500 will get:
And those not in the United States over Collection Level 500 will be treated to a package with:
Similarly, those under Collection Level 500 outside the U.S. will receive:
In other words, it’s a pretty massive “make-good” package, with even those outside the U.S. being compensated as Second Dinner recognizes that they too were impacted by the outage.It’s not too dissimilar to the package Sony provided PlayStation 3 owners following the PSN outage of 2011. That said,Second Dinner is aware of how good the U.S. gift is and has noted that VPN spoofing will not work. Either way, it’s a welcome gesture that almost certainly goes above and beyond.
