or refund the gold of every person who bought max riding.

Those are your two options, leaving it as is, is simply not an option. No point in playing a game if time spent doesn’t matter if things are just going to be earned for free. We’ve had a limited amount of time to play prepatch and knowing that the time we spent grinding gold was wasted. Like why even play if anything that’s worth grinding for might end up being given out for free?