Catizen Concludes Second Airdrop, But What About Bombie?

Key Takeaways

Catizen has concluded a 90-day “Airdrop Pass Season 1” and distributed 10 million CATI worth roughly $2.75 million to millions of players.
The Bombie airdrop has been pending for more than six months, and no date or tokenomics have been announced.
Bombie has more than doubled its player base since the first Catizen airdrop in Sept. 2024.

One of Telegram’s leading play-to-earn (P2E) titles, Catizen (CATI), has concluded its “Airdrop Pass Season 1” rollout, distributing millions of CATI tokens and points for other games to players.

However, relatively low and odd returns from the S1 pass airdrop have prompted Bombie’s players to wonder when the Bombie airdrop is taking place, if ever.

CATI Airdrop Pass Season 1

Catizen’s first airdrop wrapped up in mid-September 2024 to a mixed response.

Following this, the game doubled down on its aims to build out its gaming ecosystem, which comprised two other P2E/airdrop apps: a side-scrolling zombie shooter, Bombie, and a trading platform, Vanilla Finance.

It did so by introducing the 10 million CATI “Airdrop Pass S1 ,” which lasted 90 days and began on Sept. 20, 2024.

This was a gamified in-app achievement tracker that gained points and increased levels based on gaming activity, social media interactions, top-ups, check-ins, and so on.

Players could purchase a “premium pass” for $42, which granted significantly higher rewards.

Players would earn points, which were divided by the total number of points accrued by the community and then multiplied by the 10 million CATI on offer.

Players would also earn points for Bombie and Vanilla Finance. In Bombie’s case, the points were tied to the unreleased Bombie token.

For Vanilla Finance, players received Sugar, which they could use to level up their trading accounts.

Upon the conclusion of this latest airdrop, long-term players of Bombie are scratching their heads, wondering, “Bombie airdrop when?”.

Bombie Airdrop

Bombie is the second-most popular game within the Catizen App Center, with 9 million players. At the time of the Catizen airdrop, this figure was around 4 million.

Catizen is already moving ahead with its airdrop pass season 2, which still includes point allocations for Bombie. That isn’t a great sign for long-term players. The S1 pass lasted 90 days, and the season 2 pass bears the same time frame.

At present, all that is known about Bombie’s tokenomics is that it has allocated 70% of its budget to the airdrop.

It is not known how many Bombie tokens it intends to create, if each in-game Bombie represents an individual token, or if they’ll be multiplied/divided against an unknown weighting and then allocated to players.

Further compounding woes are the recent Tesla car giveaway announcements from the Bombie social media team.

Please tell me where the team behind this stupid game is located.
We will be mailing cow dung every day until there is an announcement about TGE. Of course, pay on delivery.
— 早く釈放しろ (@TG_is_No1) January 22, 2025

Hamster Kombat (HMSTR) and Catizen left players with a bad taste in their mouths following the lackluster HMSTR airdrop and the last-minute CATI allocation adjustment from Catizen ahead of its airdrop.

In addition, Bombie has expanded beyond Telegram and is now the first-ever game on the Japanese messaging app LINE.

For now, players who have invested time or money into the game are likely experiencing the malice of the “sunk cost fallacy” and remain at the whims of the game’s ongoing airdrop ambiguity.