Pluto Studio changes vKitty-related airdrop standards to combat bot accounts, opaque communication causes dissatisfaction among players

After the Catizen airdrop distribution information was announced, some players were unhappy with the uncommunicated token distribution model and changes to the distribution criteria, and the developer Pluto Studio admitted that they did not disclose the changes in the criteria in advance. After the CATI airdrop interface was opened, multiple players expressed disappointment on X because they received a lower-than-expected share of the rewards. In addition, the Catizen team previously stated that the player's vKitty income rate in the game will be the main determinant of the airdrop distribution. But early last Sunday, after revealing the airdrop distribution to players, Pluto said that it had actually changed the design of the airdrop after discovering that some players used means to artificially increase their income. It said: "During the review of the data for this CATI airdrop, we found that many robot accounts took advantage of this public rule and tried to obtain a large number of CATI tokens by using scripts to increase their vKitty profit rate. In this case, following the original airdrop criteria would seriously harm the interests of real players and community supporters. Therefore, the airdrop criteria were adjusted to minimize the profit rate of vKitty and focus instead on "factors that more accurately reflect real player activities, such as: on-chain interactions, task completion, fish coin purchases and consumption." Decrypt reached out to Pluto Studio for comment, including why it did not ban cheating players but changed the criteria for all users, but did not receive an immediate response.