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There are 300,000 total earnable points, so yes you can reach the top milestone, even if you miss a few.

Why do you make everything p2w?

I wouldn't call it pay to win. Sure, spending could be a tie breaker for points, but if you don't do everything, especially Raids, no amount of spending is going to catch you up.

Well, technically speaking $24,000 USD might catch you up. But even among the mega whales I suspect the number of people who will actually do that is very close to zero.

Since about a third of the realm points are in Raids, and my alliance doesn't do raids (much less Nightmare Raids which seems to be required to cap out the milestones) I'm basically out of it. But the event is still giving me a ton of rewards for basically just playing the game more or less as I normally do, so I can't be too upset. I find it ... odd that there's so much emphasis on Raids given their presumptive optional nature - and the fact they are tied to alliances, meaning individual players cannot simply choose to do them just for the event - but I suppose Kabam has its reasons there.

There are ranked rewards, which will be unobtainable unless you pay
I would call that pay to win

They are unobtainable even if you do pay, unless you also basically do everything. Normally the term pay to win refers to games where either whomever pays the most wins, or spending offers an overwhelming advantage compared to everything else. But that's not really true here, except in an essentially unrealistic extreme. Spending offers an advantage between two players who otherwise are tied in all other respects, but having an advantage between two competitors who otherwise do exactly the same things equally well is not pay to win, that is literally all competitions.

I'm sorry but if there's NO way you can place #1 without having to spend, it's called a PAY TO WIN event.

Nothing new really for realm events. Banquet was the exact same.

Last year's Battlegrounds Realm Event was absolutely nothing like this Realm Event. I placed top 4 overall without spending a single penny.

Spenders had an advantage which was being able to purchase Units in order to buy elders BUT they still had to play the game AND win BG matches in order to rack up points.

This "Summoner Fest" is an absolute joke towards competition, it's a PAY to WIN event.

Maybe its because they analyzed data and figured out some people were being scumbags farming the VT for points and didn't want that anymore.

So they put points in the "Win X Matches" objectives, which will result in those same people camping?

If you want the radiance you won't camp...

I dont particularly care about the radiance in the objectives, and I'm not alone.

I won't be camping, but there definitely will be some that do.

There are 300,000 total earnable points, so yes you can reach the top milestone, even if you miss a few.

Why do you make everything p2w?

I wouldn't call it pay to win. Sure, spending could be a tie breaker for points, but if you don't do everything, especially Raids, no amount of spending is going to catch you up.

Well, technically speaking $24,000 USD might catch you up. But even among the mega whales I suspect the number of people who will actually do that is very close to zero.

Since about a third of the realm points are in Raids, and my alliance doesn't do raids (much less Nightmare Raids which seems to be required to cap out the milestones) I'm basically out of it. But the event is still giving me a ton of rewards for basically just playing the game more or less as I normally do, so I can't be too upset. I find it ... odd that there's so much emphasis on Raids given their presumptive optional nature - and the fact they are tied to alliances, meaning individual players cannot simply choose to do them just for the event - but I suppose Kabam has its reasons there.

There are ranked rewards, which will be unobtainable unless you pay
I would call that pay to win

They are unobtainable even if you do pay, unless you also basically do everything. Normally the term pay to win refers to games where either whomever pays the most wins, or spending offers an overwhelming advantage compared to everything else. But that's not really true here, except in an essentially unrealistic extreme. Spending offers an advantage between two players who otherwise are tied in all other respects, but having an advantage between two competitors who otherwise do exactly the same things equally well is not pay to win, that is literally all competitions.

I'm sorry but if there's NO way you can place #1 without having to spend, it's called a PAY TO WIN event.

Nothing new really for realm events. Banquet was the exact same.

Last year's Battlegrounds Realm Event was absolutely nothing like this Realm Event. I placed top 4 overall without spending a single penny.

Spenders had an advantage which was being able to purchase Units in order to buy elders BUT they still had to play the game AND win BG matches in order to rack up points.

This "Summoner Fest" is an absolute joke towards competition, it's a PAY to WIN event.

Maybe its because they analyzed data and figured out some people were being scumbags farming the VT for points and didn't want that anymore.

So they put points in the "Win X Matches" objectives, which will result in those same people camping?

Professional poker player and one of the best on the planet, Daniel Negreanu had never had a royal flush in his lifetime of playing poker.

Do you know how many hands of poker that man has played?

It isn't rigged, that's not how it works.

As much as you are right, this is not Poker. It's MCoC's version of video poker, and royal flushes are a lot more common in video poker

Fair point, but the odds are still similar, even if not quite as tough to hit a royal.
The odds are still tiny, regardless.

I am just basing this on the real video poker machine and not MCoC's version. People use the mathematical chance with real cards and forget that Video Poker is actually rigged. People think its rigged to make people lose; but its actually rigged to have an RTP (return to player) payout. The RTP is decided by the local gaming commission. Real poker has no RTP.
Doubt this silly game mode went thru all the trouble of calculating RTP and all that.. so its pure luck 🤣

That's fair, but OP still doesn't seem to understand the concept of RNG and luck. 😬

Oh that's for sure rofl, 900k points while being unlucky in a "rigged" game mode is insane lol

Sabi, 900k points and still feeling like the game’s rigged is exactly why some players question the fairness of the systems.

There is 2,598,960 possible combinations of 5 card hands in a 52 deck poker game (Googled, no I don't remember this number by heart). You are trying to hit 1 out of 4 hands from that number. 1 in 649,740 chance that resets every time you play... It is not rigged you just haven't been lucky.

While your math is technically correct for true random hands in poker, it doesn't translate directly to how RNG works in video games. And a coin can't be rigged by a developer, but RNG can.
Anyway, I can't prove it's rigged, and maybe just like you said I haven't been unlucky.
But here's the thing, we also can't prove it's rigged or not.
I’ll still play the game,so just let it go.

Rigged or not its playing with you emotion more than anything else with a great payout of a title and banner, and you are playing along, which is exactly why I called you a gambling addict.
If it really was rigged, what would be the purpose of giving Royal flushes to TBs or UCs?

Calling someone a gambling addict just because they question game fairness is unfair and dismissive.
Players invest time and effort not just for “emotion” or “titles,” but because we want a fair chance to enjoy the game and be rewarded for the skill and dedication.
Questioning the system is rigged isn’t gambling addict — it’s critical thinking.

If you did enough critical thinking the outcome would be "Its luck" you are searching for an answer to explain why you are not winning. Its 2 different things
They got you with FOMO, there is absolutely no skill other than knowing basic poker rules in this game mode

There are 300,000 total earnable points, so yes you can reach the top milestone, even if you miss a few.

Why do you make everything p2w?

I wouldn't call it pay to win. Sure, spending could be a tie breaker for points, but if you don't do everything, especially Raids, no amount of spending is going to catch you up.

Well, technically speaking $24,000 USD might catch you up. But even among the mega whales I suspect the number of people who will actually do that is very close to zero.

Since about a third of the realm points are in Raids, and my alliance doesn't do raids (much less Nightmare Raids which seems to be required to cap out the milestones) I'm basically out of it. But the event is still giving me a ton of rewards for basically just playing the game more or less as I normally do, so I can't be too upset. I find it ... odd that there's so much emphasis on Raids given their presumptive optional nature - and the fact they are tied to alliances, meaning individual players cannot simply choose to do them just for the event - but I suppose Kabam has its reasons there.

There are ranked rewards, which will be unobtainable unless you pay
I would call that pay to win

They are unobtainable even if you do pay, unless you also basically do everything. Normally the term pay to win refers to games where either whomever pays the most wins, or spending offers an overwhelming advantage compared to everything else. But that's not really true here, except in an essentially unrealistic extreme. Spending offers an advantage between two players who otherwise are tied in all other respects, but having an advantage between two competitors who otherwise do exactly the same things equally well is not pay to win, that is literally all competitions.

I'm sorry but if there's NO way you can place #1 without having to spend, it's called a PAY TO WIN event.

Nothing new really for realm events. Banquet was the exact same.

There are 300,000 total earnable points, so yes you can reach the top milestone, even if you miss a few.

Why do you make everything p2w?

I wouldn't call it pay to win. Sure, spending could be a tie breaker for points, but if you don't do everything, especially Raids, no amount of spending is going to catch you up.

Well, technically speaking $24,000 USD might catch you up. But even among the mega whales I suspect the number of people who will actually do that is very close to zero.

Since about a third of the realm points are in Raids, and my alliance doesn't do raids (much less Nightmare Raids which seems to be required to cap out the milestones) I'm basically out of it. But the event is still giving me a ton of rewards for basically just playing the game more or less as I normally do, so I can't be too upset. I find it ... odd that there's so much emphasis on Raids given their presumptive optional nature - and the fact they are tied to alliances, meaning individual players cannot simply choose to do them just for the event - but I suppose Kabam has its reasons there.

There are ranked rewards, which will be unobtainable unless you pay
I would call that pay to win

They are unobtainable even if you do pay, unless you also basically do everything. Normally the term pay to win refers to games where either whomever pays the most wins, or spending offers an overwhelming advantage compared to everything else. But that's not really true here, except in an essentially unrealistic extreme. Spending offers an advantage between two players who otherwise are tied in all other respects, but having an advantage between two competitors who otherwise do exactly the same things equally well is not pay to win, that is literally all competitions.

I'm sorry but if there's NO way you can place #1 without having to spend, it's called a PAY TO WIN event.

that's always been the case, even arena. you can get everything for free or pay a bunch of money to buy some time and convenience.

next week's poker game mode or whatever is going to be the same thing.

Yeah, it is almost certain that a whale will rank first on that one too, however any f2p can try to compete for that spot (again, it is extremely unlikely that a f2p will get it, but the possibility is there)
In this one you have a cap on points, meaning the only way to rank 1 is spending money

I don't think a f2p who has spent 8 hours a day grinding units in all forms since day 1 of the game, and hoarded all those units, would even be able to be close for first place. $140k USD is roughly 5 million units if you are buying namors in the webstore.

So while a f2p could technically compete, they never had a chance. I imagine some mega whales might use this event as a chance to stockpile units for Banquet so they can double dip the events with only paying money here.