On September 16th, following the announcement of the Catizen airdrop allocation information, some players expressed dissatisfaction with the changes to the token distribution model and allocation criteria, which were not communicated beforehand. Pluto Studio, the developer, admitted that they had not disclosed the changes to the criteria in advance. After the CATI airdrop interface opened, many players voiced their disappointment on X, as they received lower reward shares than expected.

Furthermore, the Catizen team had previously stated that player earnings in vKitty within the game would be a major determining factor in airdrop allocation. However, earlier on Sunday, after revealing the airdrop allocation to players, Pluto stated that it had actually altered the airdrop design upon discovering that some players were using artificial means to increase their earnings.

They stated: "During the review of data for this CATI airdrop, we discovered that numerous bot accounts were exploiting this public rule, utilizing scripts to increase their vKitty earning speed in an attempt to obtain a large quantity of CATI tokens. Under such circumstances, adhering to the original airdrop criteria would severely compromise the interests of genuine players and community supporters."