Why did Hamster Strike remove millions of players from the Telegram airdrop

Coinworld reported:
Virus Telegram Game
Hamster Fast Bat
has banned 2.3 million cheaters and will distribute half of its revenue to “honest players,” while burning (or effectively destroying) the remaining revenue. This is the final step before the highly anticipated HMSTR token
launch and airdrop
on the open network
(ton).
Hamster Fast Bat
claims to have
over 300 million players
frantically tapping their screens in an attempt to secure a portion of the airdrop. A
recent Twitter
post explained that among these players, 131 million are eligible for the airdrop on September 26. However, 2.3 million of these players have been identified as cheaters, caught by the team through user behavior analysis.
The anonymous development team behind Hamster Kombat stated, “One individual connected over 400 accounts to a Binance address.” They added, “Another invited nearly 2,000 ‘friends,’ all of whom were flagged by our anti-cheat system.”
Using the ban hammer, the team seized 6.8 billion tokens from cheaters, half of which will be redistributed to legitimate players. The remainder will be burned or deducted from the total supply—this measure can sometimes increase the token’s price by making it scarcer.
If Bybit
pre-launch trading
aligns with HMSTR’s final market price, the current price of $0.08 suggests that the game has prevented $544 million worth of tokens from entering the wallets of scammers. Pre-launch trading allows traders to speculate on the token’s final price, but it is worth noting that this is often incorrect.
“Scammers do not belong to our community. They use software automation to gain an unfair advantage over regular players,” Hamster Kombat stated on
Twitter. “We care about our participants and market participants, especially long-term holders, and want to protect them.”
This announcement comes ahead of the HMSTR token release and airdrop on Thursday. Of the total supply of 100 billion tokens, 60% will be distributed in the first airdrop, with an additional 15% reserved for
Hamster Kombat Season 2.
According to a recent study, this will be the last batch of HMSTR tokens reserved for the community, as noted in a
Twitter post.
Keeping the hype train rolling is a challenge
for click-to-earn
games.
Without coins,
this game has sparked the frenzy by reinventing itself through collaborations with other projects such as
Lost Dog
and
Flappy Bird,
as it appears to become the
“Netflix” of social games. At the same time, the slide-to-earn game
Catizen
meticulously designs its token economics
to support airdrops for 19 seasons.
Editor
Andrew Hayward