DO NOT UPDATE UNTIL COALITION EVENT IS OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The whole situation is incredibly frustrating; as it stands (more context below; most here probably won't need it, but maybe it'll help as an eventual reference in case anyone comes along later lost as to what transpired), users are essentially: 

For context, this is my understanding of some of the key events involving this iteration of The Harvesttide:

3.  Currently, the update has been forced several hours after the event began; I believe the most notable attainable inflated progression tier would have been 1,000 crystals for players who didn't update immediately, and those players will have maximum scores up to 4 ribbons less than the nominal maximum at the end of the event.

In cases where users were both aware of the situation and had a choice to update or not, this set of circumstances created a conflict of interest in multiple ways; updating would be consistent with the intentions the devs communicated on the forums and at least one other external platform multiple times, with some reasonable conceptions of competitive integrity, and with maximizing coalition ribbons, at a substantial cost to individual rewards and a substantial risk of incurring a long-term competitive disadvantage, whereas not updating would be consistent with maximizing individual rewards and with preserving long-term competitive standing, at the cost of the devs' intentions, competitive integrity, and coalition ribbons.  Additionally, individual intent would seem to be difficult for the devs to effectively discern (and therefore to act upon) on a widespread basis even if they'd want to and could do so fairly (which naturally in itself is arguable), because a host of other factors could realistically influence outcomes in either direction as far as the timing of installing v5.2.2 before or after playing The Harvesttide.

Now, there seems to be no obvious solution going forward which will simultaneously (a) be consistent with a reasonable, intuitive understanding of fairness to all players and competitive integrity both for The Harvesttide in isolation and for the broader long-term implications of the event on the in-game economy, and (b) clearly communicate via actions to virtually all players (including those who followed the situation closely and those who didn't, and including those who updated before playing the event and those who updated after) that their time, money, loyalty, and interest in the game are valued and respected, and that most widespread player concerns resulting from the devs' mistakes will be honored by the eventual resolution to this situation.

For what it's worth, thanks to Oktagon for the attempts to communicate and resolve confusion on the forums beforehand, since that always helps in principle, but unfortunately the execution of the update in this instance directly contradicted that communication and therefore had the opposite effect (to a degree which outweighs the clarity expressed in advance), and while I hope to be proven wrong about any misgivings at this stage, I can't help but harbor concerns that when all is said and done, there's a meaningful risk that neither consistency nor player satisfaction will be clearly upheld as the foremost priority, not only that it might prove difficult to meet both of those standards simultaneously.

With all of that said though, good luck to all players with making the most of this event and with whatever happens in the end, and to Oktagon and D3Go with resolving any ongoing issues and inconsistencies with The Harvesttide, as unenviable a task as all of that may seem to be for the moment for anyone attempting to make sense of the fallout.