Why hasn't the Flash event bug been fixed?

It's fixed.

Apparently, chopper was never meant to be the 5th toon. They reworded the event to adjust to this.

In other words, the devs got lazy and instead of legitimately fixing it, they just repackaged the bug as wai

"TWD_Negan;c-1134089" wrote:
It's fixed.

Apparently, chopper was never meant to be the 5th toon. They reworded the event to adjust to this.

In other words, the devs got lazy and instead of legitimately fixing it, they just repackaged the bug as wai

All of that is wrong. It's not "fixed". They changed the wording of the description to accommodate the fact that they didn't have time to fix it before pushing the update for Thrawn out on Tuesday, to avoid confusion.
Whether or not they'll actually fix it before the end of the event is another question entirely.

"TWD_Negan;c-1134089" wrote:
It's fixed.

Apparently, chopper was never meant to be the 5th toon. They reworded the event to adjust to this.

In other words, the devs got lazy and instead of legitimately fixing it, they just repackaged the bug as wai

Either way it amounts to the same thing, another money grab. If that's how it was supposed to be then they should have made people aware prior to the event starting. But I don't believe that at all, I feel blatantly lied to yet again...

The "fix" is done. The intention was always to give you Chopper, making all the others necessary. The bug was that it allowed you to think you could use any of the 5. That bug was fixed and it now tells you 4/5 if you do not have any of the 5 outside of Chopper at less than 5*. That was the bug that was fixed and it's now WAI. Good luck.

I don't see how this one is a money grab since you have until the end of the month to get Sabine to 5*. I still do not have her at 5* so I continue to farm. If I want to be impatient, I can spend to feed the "money grab," but I won't. So not sure why so many are so quick to call everything and I mean everything a money grab. it's a for profit business...

But yes, I agree that it's messed up that it requires a specific 5 at 5*. Oh well.

"Veritasum;c-1134173" wrote:
The "fix" is done. The intention was always to give you Chopper, making all the others necessary. The bug was that it allowed you to think you could use any of the 5. That bug was fixed and it now tells you 4/5 if you do not have any of the 5 outside of Chopper at less than 5*. That was the bug that was fixed and it's now WAI. Good luck.

I don't see how this one is a money grab since you have until the end of the month to get Sabine to 5*. I still do not have her at 5* so I continue to farm. If I want to be impatient, I can spend to feed the "money grab," but I won't. So not sure why so many are so quick to call everything and I mean everything a money grab. it's a for profit business...

But yes, I agree that it's messed up that it requires a specific 5 at 5*. Oh well.

But that's not guaranteed, especially for newer players that didn't have any of the Phoenix toons already, and even if they did we all know rng & how its possible to not see certain shards in whatever shop for extended periods of time. It's quite possible that some ftp won't 5* Sabine before Flash ends due to this fact.

"WrathofCaedus;c-1134186" wrote:

"Veritasum;c-1134173" wrote:
The "fix" is done. The intention was always to give you Chopper, making all the others necessary. The bug was that it allowed you to think you could use any of the 5. That bug was fixed and it now tells you 4/5 if you do not have any of the 5 outside of Chopper at less than 5*. That was the bug that was fixed and it's now WAI. Good luck.

I don't see how this one is a money grab since you have until the end of the month to get Sabine to 5*. I still do not have her at 5* so I continue to farm. If I want to be impatient, I can spend to feed the "money grab," but I won't. So not sure why so many are so quick to call everything and I mean everything a money grab. it's a for profit business...

But yes, I agree that it's messed up that it requires a specific 5 at 5*. Oh well.

But that's not guaranteed, especially for newer players that didn't have any of the Phoenix toons already, and even if they did we all know rng & how its possible to not see certain shards in whatever shop for extended periods of time. It's quite possible that some ftp won't 5* Sabine before Flash ends due to this fact.

Which is definitely why I'm hoping they're still working on a fix for the bug.

"sjkerhfgdjhd;c-1134237" wrote:

"Veritasum;c-1134173" wrote:
The "fix" is done. The intention was always to give you Chopper, making all the others necessary. The bug was that it allowed you to think you could use any of the 5. That bug was fixed and it now tells you 4/5 if you do not have any of the 5 outside of Chopper at less than 5*. That was the bug that was fixed and it's now WAI. Good luck.

I don't see how this one is a money grab since you have until the end of the month to get Sabine to 5*. I still do not have her at 5* so I continue to farm. If I want to be impatient, I can spend to feed the "money grab," but I won't. So not sure why so many are so quick to call everything and I mean everything a money grab. it's a for profit business...

But yes, I agree that it's messed up that it requires a specific 5 at 5*. Oh well.

The wording "accomodate the bug" in the official announcement very strongly implies that we were supposed to be able to use any event toon as the sixth, not just Chopper. And from the declaration that things have been "fixed," also suggests that no further fixes will be forthcoming.

They never said "fixed". They said "the bug has been updated". It was listed under "Bug Fixes", but that doesn't mean they consider it fixed or done.

"Bazillion2000;c-1134266" wrote:
I'll continue trying to farm Sabine on the hard node and in the guild store. I'm spending 100 crystals per day to get two extra guild store refreshes. But at my current rate it's looking very unlikely I will have a 5* Sabine before the 30th.

You need at most 65 shards, looking at your profile. The hard node is a 33% chance, so you should average a shard a day. There are 4 possible characters in Sabine's slot in the guild shop, so you have a 25% chance there. You're getting 5 chances at the shop, which means you should average 6.25 shards per day from the guild shop.
7.25 shards a day over 15 days is 108.75 shards on average.
Barring bad RNG, you should make it with time to spare. Of course, RNG is RNG, so there's no guarantee.

"J_Starseed;c-1134313" wrote:
They specifically said that it was a bug that you couldn't use chopper that would fixed this week. Then they decided to alter the event to make the bug the actual requirements. Unless what they told the youtubers at ea play was inaccurate. Either way many people like myself starred, leveled and geared chopper because of it. Not really very friendly customer service. Am I missing something? Unless I am at the very least an apology would be nice....

Where did they specifically say that the bug was that you couldn't use chopper?

"WrathofCaedus;d-116815" wrote:
What's the deal with the final tier? Can't use Chopper and Sabine just happens to be the 1 Phoenix toon, out of 6, that has the most rng dependant shards. This is the 9th day now that this bug has been known, during a time sensitive event, and nothing has been done. Yet, an old cpl toons that turned into raid destroyers were nerfed immediately... someone even came in on Sunday for that issue and that wasn't even a bug. These toons represent millions of credits, hundred of purple mats, tons of gear, and effort for an event many can't do because of this bug. I sure hope those affected get compensated, it is nonsense that this has not been fixed yet and imo it's been intentionally "overlooked" so ppl spend to get Sabine to 5*....

The bug in question was determined to be the player ... the bug was "fixed." So you get the chance to see 4/5 required characters!