Micro Lego Man: When the contrarian indicator meets the wool-picking scheme, who is the real winner?

I just praised Weile yesterday, and today the event is gone. This is probably the legendary precision harvesting.
In a daze, I remembered the Pattaya incident on 2.17. On 2.16 I was still saying I love Thailand, and the next day I got hit.
Never thought that even living a secluded life now, I still can't avoid such a curse even in the wool-gathering circle.

At 10 o'clock today, Weile's invitation event suddenly went offline. Instantly, the group chat exploded.

Facing unredeemable rewards, buyers went to the power-levelers (who boosted the invites) to apply for after-sales service, with a solid reason: the event entrance is gone, can't get the red envelopes anymore, refund. But the after-sales attitude was even tougher: I've already completed the boosting, canceling the red envelopes is the official's business, not mine. Some even directly issued statements: yesterday's boosts won't be refunded, this morning's submissions will be refunded, and some won't refund a single penny.

This is just hilarious. The responsibility of the game side was perfectly transferred into a fight between the levelers and the buyers.

Buyers feel wronged: I did pay, completed the boosting, but can't get the reward.

Levelers feel even more wronged: My profit was already thin, how can I compensate? And many orders are subcontracted layer by layer by middlemen, with even thinner profits, and most don't go through Xianyu, directly transferring money, the top-level levelers are even less likely to refund.

The top-level leveler revealed: "I also paid the cost, and also have losses. This account of mine is a purchased authorized account, and there are still a few thousand yuan locked on the platform."

That is to say, the real winner in the end is the platform providing the accounts. Whether it's a gray industry or not, they've beautifully disappeared, not losing a single cent of the money they should have earned. Next is the game developer, suddenly canceling the event, and everyone can do nothing about it. The only certain losers are the levelers and buyers stuck in the middle.

Even more interesting is that there's a small group of people who finished inviting on Monday and already got the red envelopes, because they didn't finish collecting them, also came to apply for refunds. Although they had already recouped their costs long ago, this truly shows the dark side of human nature—every time there's a black swan, there are always people trying to fish in troubled waters.

Getting back to the matter itself, the biggest problem is still Weile.

You clearly didn't have to run this event, but insisted on launching it; since you've launched so many rounds, you definitely have the money to finish this one, at worst just don't launch the next one, but you insisted on ending it on the second day.

You could even have posted an announcement in advance, or limited the daily withdrawal amount, those who can't get it just have bad luck, and no one would have anything to say.

But it just chose the most speechless, most fan-losing way: directly cancel the event, no announcement, no compensation. All based on "the final right of interpretation belongs to me" and "the advantage is mine"

Stock god Xiao Gu sighed: Weile has a mastermind.

Deliberately starting the event and suddenly closing it on the second day was to intensify the conflict between the levelers and the players. Once a rift of trust is created, it's hard to mend. It thoroughly manipulated those who wanted the invitation rewards. Probably it knew itself that there aren't many real invites, most are boosted.
 

The impact this time on me is that the wool I earned over several months was all lost in one day. I have to say goodbye to the wool-gathering circle again. The world is tough, can I find my own path?