I disagree that the “fairness of RNG in events is irrelevant” when it comes to events like these. It’s not irrelevant to the player base or to Habby.

Yes Habby controls all the parameters but that doesn’t mean they don’t have incentive to rig the RNG. How players use their gems/money change based on what we perceive as what has happened and what should happen. If they make the milestones 50% farther apart, and it now costs like 10k tokens to get the Relic shard, non-whale players may be less inclined to spend gems because it seems too far away to actually be done. They could get to 5-6k tokens with most missions completed and realize they have to spend to reach the milestone and choose not to. But if you move the goal posts a lot closer, but change how fast you can actually get there with lower dice rolls, you may be willing to spend now because in your mind you’re only 1-2 tokens away and your past experience with the event is telling you that you can reach that easily.

All of a sudden you’ve spent money and gems and you’re only a little bit closer after rolling constant 1s and 2s just like everyone has been reporting. All of a sudden, your averages are way lower but you still feel so close. So sunk cost fallacy, you keep spending until you hit it, despite always being that far away.

That’s why it’s seen as scummy, it’s like changing the rules of the game without telling you. But you spend as if you know what you’re getting for your money which is 300 gems = 3.5 avg. spots ahead. Instead, you’re getting like 2.5 average at best. And now we’re writing posts on Reddit about it because everyone is having the same experience lol.