Quote Originally Posted by Dragoy View Post
That part is fine; I opened it up for some characters and received the 500 immediately for them, so not sure what might be going on here then...
Because this was such an exploitable situation, they did an emergency maintenance in Mhaura a day or two after the compensation period started; I think it was changed so only characters that had Vana'bout objectives unlocked before the emergency server-wide maintenance would get it.

Which is fair, the stated goal was "compensate anyone who might have unfairly missed obtaining plaudits because of a bug", not "everybody gets free stuff." If you only unlocked the category after that maintenance, you obviously weren't impacted by the issues with it.