The reality is that bugs will slip through the cracks no matter how much testing you do. The recent deal with effects applying to the wrong team probably should have been caught due to how widespread it was, but honestly they've been pretty good about jumping on the major bugs quickly.
Let's face it, not every event is going to give us a bunch of stuff for free. That's just not a good business model. I'm not jumping on any one person, my comments are more directed as the community as a whole. There has been a whole lot of nastiness here lately. I know it's a game based on a metal band, but that doesn't give us an excuse to be pricks all the time.
Just think about it this way: Would you be more happy if they shut this thing down tomorrow? I wouldn't. Those that would be happy with that probably need a break. It is, after all, just a game. There's nothing to get our panties all up in a wad over. I've played much more popular games that are 20x as manipulative as this one is. That's just the way the business model of games like this operate. Honestly when NF took this game over, it was a mess. It had potential, but it was still a mess. NF hasn't done bad at all.
Everyone take a deep breath and relax. In the grand scheme of things, the issues with this game are pretty small. If it was ran by a big company like Electronic Arts, every patch would include a new super OP character or talisman set that cost hundreds of dollars to obtain within the first 3 months. I'm not joking about that, I've seen it. The greed here is minuscule compared to that. Keep that in mind before we post. I realize sometimes anger gets the best of us, and I'm not immune to that. Maybe take a few hours to let things simmer down before rushing to the forum.