carlos, your exact words were: expecting GKO working properly
what exactly does that mean? how did it work in previous seasons? it told every user what the situation is, concerning each and every single player! i don't know if the rules state anything about this matter and frankly, it doesn't matter what the rules say, anymore (i'm not talking about terms of service, i'm talking about game manual), because there are many, many things that are not covered or are incorrect, in the rules (the hotel income at the best level, for example).
therefore, if you acted expecting the game to work properly, they also acted expecting the game to post a clearly visible, red warning, for each player, not only in the player's page, but also in the tactics section. this is how the game works, properly.
based on this statement of yours, i consider the situations as being similar and if you agree with someone asking for a punishment for those players that were expecting the game to work properly, then i consider there should be a punishment for the other situation, where other users expected the game to work properly and renewed at the beginning of the season. it's all based on your 'expecting gko working properly'
and about me feeling superior: if you feel superior because you renewed contracts and had no players lost, then maybe i could feel superior, too. but frankly, right now i feel very happy that all those players are back and the users can still play.
and no, there should be absolutely no punishment to them, whatsoever! why? because i'm convinced, the vast majority of them, were expecting the game to work properly and had no idea the contracts are about to expire and the players about to be lost.
yes, there might be some that wanted to take advantage and pay less, but then forgot and got away with it. oh, well, it's for the greater good, deal with it. i'm fine with it.
let me tell you about a different situation: a romanian cheater, with many teams under his belt, lost almost all players from one of his teams (it just happened that i saw that team). given the fact that by losing his good players, he would have demoted at the end of this season, i was happy, because he is using that team against honest users, to influence promotion or demotion. now he has his players back. oh, well... it's more important for decent users to keep playing, so i'm ok with it