Does Kabam's delay in announcing crystals like dungeon crystals/featured crystals cause you to:
Ultra8529
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Just trying to see whether Kabam's stated intention in not making such announcements actually gels with what players will do in the situation where information is withheld from us.
Does Kabam's delay in announcing crystals like dungeon crystals/featured crystals cause you to: 92 votes
Use all your shards/dungeon artifacts immediately!
9%
9 votes
Hoard everything until we get further information.
90%
83 votes
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For each batch of dungeon crystal they will add 6 of last year (2018) champions into dungeon crystals, in order of their introduction to the game.
Look closely. There were Wasp, Ghost, Red Skull, Heimdall, Korg, and Omega Red throughout the dungeon crystal in the last batch.
So in the next batch, the guaranteed 6 new champs are Emma, Symbiote Supreme, Venom The Duck, The Champion, Ægon, and Night Thrasher.
For instance why is there no, "buy what you like hold when you dont option"? That is an obvious third option that probably works for the vast majority of the players.
The point of the poll is to survey the response towards spending shards or hoarding shards. Those are binary options with no middle ground.
The problem is most people would probably not fall into either of these 2 catagories. This is what would called a bad poll in statistics. The goal is to try and force people to an outcome by limiting the choices.
The stated purpose is not binary, because there is a middle, the middle is "spend when I see something I want, save when I dont." People dont generally go, you know there is nothing I want so I will hoard". For example, if aegon is in the next one I will spend, if another champ I want is in the next one I will spend, if neither of those 2 options are available I will hold.. Kabam telling me what is in the crystals right before the end of the event has no baring on my spending habits. If I have not spent by the end of the event it mans I am probably waiting for the next one anyways, since you can generally speaking get enough in the time the crystals are active to get a crystal anyways.
So it makes no difference other than you don’t know in advance if you will be opening the upcoming features or not
As for the Featured, they can't stop people from hoarding. However, they don't have to encourage it.
B. The question is phrased so poorly that you've skewed your own results. The likelyhood that 92% of people are hoarding shards is essentially 0, especially when the advice given to the majority of the player base is never open featured crystals and stick to basics.
- "If aegon is in the next one I will spend" - this means option 2, hoard until you see the new featured crystal.
- "If another champ i want is in the next one I will spend" - this means option 2, hoard until you see the new featured crystal.
- "If neither of those 2 options are available, i will hold" - again, this means option 2, except that the hoarding is indefinite.
Your statement that "Kabam telling me what is in the crystals right before the end of the event has no [bearing] on my spending habits" simply shows that you will hoard no matter what. So in this case the proper response for you in the poll is Option 2 (Hoard).
In addition my statement does not ion any way go to show that I will hoard no matter what, that is what is known as a strawman. I will spend if the crystal warrants, as I have stated repeatedly, thereby rendering your statement false. I only hold if the crystal does not warrant buying.
At the end of the day, the only question is this: in the 1 week before the current featured crystal expires, would the lack of an announcement of the next crystal cause players to hold their shards till they see the next crystal (in 7 days), or cause players to pop their 5* crystals on the spot. It is, again, a binary choice. It of course depends on what is in the current 5* basic crystal, and what players expect is in the 5* featured crystal. It is circumstantial in that sense, but insofar as the choice is binary - either pop open in the 7 days window, or wait till the 7 days window is over - that is the choice as presented in the survey options.
What you have suggested - that "Kabam announcing it has no bearing on my actions" - is simply not the target group of the study. I am not interested in finding out what percentage of the entire population of MCOC players will hoard or open. I am only interested in finding out what percentage of those players who will be affected by Kabam's decision will hoard or open their crystals. Those who have already decided they will take a certain course irrespective of Kabam's decision to announce the contents of crystals are simply not relevant to the analysis of whether Kabam's decision will have the intended effect that they have stated.
As for your end of the day question, that is not the question you used in your poll, you do not mention the 1 week before it expires, and even then the poll would still be bad, because you still have the "it does not matter". If you are waiting till the last week then that should mean that the crystals did not have anything you wanted, so you waited. You would wait if they announced it or not, and if they announced it and it was crystals you didnt like you would continue to wait.
The answer to your "study" is 0, no one is affected by their decision, there are only people who are upset they do not know before hand.
It might assist in your comprehension of this poll to think of it in this way:
1. There are people who will not be affected by Kabam's decision either way - this is Group A.
2. There are people who will be affected by Kabam's decision - this is Group B.
3. I am not interested in Group A. I am interested only in Group B.
4. As for Group B, there are 2 sub-groups. Group B1 are people who will open their crystals in the 1 week before Kabam announces the next featured crystal. Group B2 are people who will hoard their crystal shards until Kabam announces the next featured crystal. I am interested in finding out the proportion between Group B1 and Group B2. Group A is therefore irrelevant. The poll options are split between Group B1 and Group B2.
5. You seem to fall in Group A and seem to think that everyone also falls in Group A with you.
The poll answers are biased so the results are biased.
Let me sum up. Poll results suggests that Kabam's actions are not sound and this is annoying some people.