6* Featured - Disheartening results
MrShady
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How many of us have saved up our hard earned 6* shards & go for the featured crystal, to be hit hard with a horrible champion that honestly should not be part of this pool? Then that champion just sits in your roster taking up space because no resources will ever be put in to that champion?
Unfortunately, the heart wrenching thing has happened to me twice in two days & I honestly makes me wonder why on earth would these champion exist in this pool when you are spending an additional 5k to attempt to grab a featured?
This is by no way an entitlement &/or I deserve this or that just because I have spent serious money on my account or because I have achieved almost everything in game that my account should be awarded this or that rant.
What I am suggesting for all is to never open a featured again. Do not waste your resources on this. My pulls for this new featured were... can anyone guess?
One of the most horrible champs possible pools besides Kamala Khan.... that's right.... "Hulkbuster" & then another useless champ, Mordo. No, Kabam team, please do not say that all champs can be used when harder content makes these champs null & void. Especially when the new champion with these new abilities like the very annoying auto block. Can Hulkbuster take on DarkHawk with his new many forms? Old champs are thrown in the trash & Kabam does nothing to fix them. Why aren't they updated as well?
How heart wrenching would you feel about receiving these champs after saving & saving to get a pull like this? These champs SHOULD NOT BE IN THE FEATURED POOL! DO NOT PLACE HORRIBLE CHAMPS IN THIS POOL when players are saving & it takes a long time to get these shards. Now if the pool featured good champions & the featured, at least it will be worth it.
to the community, say no to features...
Unfortunately, the heart wrenching thing has happened to me twice in two days & I honestly makes me wonder why on earth would these champion exist in this pool when you are spending an additional 5k to attempt to grab a featured?
This is by no way an entitlement &/or I deserve this or that just because I have spent serious money on my account or because I have achieved almost everything in game that my account should be awarded this or that rant.
What I am suggesting for all is to never open a featured again. Do not waste your resources on this. My pulls for this new featured were... can anyone guess?
One of the most horrible champs possible pools besides Kamala Khan.... that's right.... "Hulkbuster" & then another useless champ, Mordo. No, Kabam team, please do not say that all champs can be used when harder content makes these champs null & void. Especially when the new champion with these new abilities like the very annoying auto block. Can Hulkbuster take on DarkHawk with his new many forms? Old champs are thrown in the trash & Kabam does nothing to fix them. Why aren't they updated as well?
How heart wrenching would you feel about receiving these champs after saving & saving to get a pull like this? These champs SHOULD NOT BE IN THE FEATURED POOL! DO NOT PLACE HORRIBLE CHAMPS IN THIS POOL when players are saving & it takes a long time to get these shards. Now if the pool featured good champions & the featured, at least it will be worth it.
to the community, say no to features...
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Hate to say it, but Kabam does this because they want you to play this game as long as possible.
Why else would they throw trash in there? So you can say darn, maybe next time ill get him. Next time is 3 months from now lol
The longer you play this game, the more likely Kabam is to make money off of you. Period.
Thats why trash is in the featured crystal.
Ever stopped and wondered why you even play this game in the first place? It's to get new characters. & then what? Once you got them, you want more characters to get more characters and the cycle just repeats.
Moral of the story, we are all addicted to this clown fiesta of a game. Oops, i meant casino.
My parents used to play the slots for fun, and sometimes they would come home happy without any winnings, and sometimes they'd come home happy with some cash in their wallets. Win or lose, they had fun. But in general they lost a lot more than they won.
MCOC is a game, so have fun and don't let the rewards knock you down. It is only a game.
In general, I recommend people not open these. But there are exceptions. Usually, the odds of getting a favorable drop out of them aren't high enough to justify the higher cost. But I'm currently opening nothing but featureds until this iteration of the featured phases out. But the circumstances of why the featured crystals are statistically far superior to the basic crystals is an unusual circumstance for me. Unless 5* shards grow on trees for you, it is probably better to shoot for basics. That's what I opened exclusively before this iteration, and it is almost certainly what I'll switch back to after this iteration ends.
(Edit: I was talking about 5* featureds, I accidentally misread the title. I don't open 6* featured crystals because I don't get nearly enough 6* shards to make that a good idea for me)
Wow with all those “iterations” I could swear you’re Miike.
Gambling on featured crystals is a horrible idea unless you just happen to be extremely lucky. I learned my lesson after going 0/15 on 5* featured.
It's about risk/reward. A higher chance at a good champ with the featured, but at the higher risk of a garbage one and with a higher cost.
The one big advantage of the basic is that you simply get more pulls.
I chose the basics because I would rather have 3 instead of 2 even if that means they aren't the newest ones.
The 15k crystal is absolutely not worth it and is a waste of 5,000 6* shards IMO. It’s not risk or reward when opening a 10k crystal, it’s always a reward because it’s the default. It’s risk when you save more shards for the featured, then you are risking an extra 5,000 6* shards.
The basic is about a 1:4 of a good/great pull, and a 1:3 chance of garbage.
The "meh" category is also larger in the basic.
IMO, this month's featured is worse than last months. Last month was a broader spectrum of good and only a couple of awesome. This month has more awesome, but a larger chance at bad (not much in between).
"Iteration" is a word I've used in normal speech and writing since I was eleven. It is also a word commonly used by programmers.
Sometimes it isn't gambling. 6* champs are still infrequent for me so it is important to get as many pulls as possible. But 5* shards come frequently enough to look at the overall statistics. I currently have 58 different 5* champs. That means about half the time I open a 5* basic crystal I will dup a champ I already have. Sometimes that might be a first time awaken on a champ I want to awaken, but more likely it will be a dup of a champ I don't use for much. When the 5* featured switched to the current iteration, I owned only three of the twenty four champs in that crystal. That means seven out of every eight pulls would be a new champ on average. Statistically speaking, that makes the featured crystal have more value to me, even when factoring in all other issues (like the odds of duping a strong champ or the extra 6* shards from dups). To put it in a slightly oversimplified way, on average I have to spend 20,000 shards on basics to pull a new champ. I only have to spend about 17,000 shards on featureds to pull a new champ.
Since then I've pulled four new champs, so I now own seven out of twenty four. I still have over a 2/3rds chance of pulling a new champ, which is still worth the cost differential. Below 2/3rds the odds shift back to basics, but at this point I'm deep enough into it that I'm planning on just pulling featureds until the current version plays out.
6* pulls are infrequent enough for me that the statistical average isn't as important to me as getting as many as possible. A 6* featured would have to be a bonanza of a crystal to change my mind unless 6* shards become vastly more available than they are now.
You have 3 options when you have 10k 6* shards.
1. Open basic 6* crystal (not risk)
2. Save for featured 6* crystal (risk)
3. Don’t open 6* crystals ever (risk)
That's the weirdest implied definition of the word "risk" I've ever seen, and as someone involved in risk assessment for over twenty years I've seen a lot of very weird ones.
Just don't go for featured. I would rather get 1 and a half crystals then 1 featured