**UPDATES TO ENLISTMENT GIFTING EVENT:**
To prevent exploitation, we will prevent new Accounts from being able to Gift enlistment crystals. We will also be taking action on those who are using 3rd Party Sellers, Bots and other farms to gift themselves mass amounts of Enlistment Crystals. Lastly, we will be adding an expiration timer to Enlistment Crystals. All unopened Enlistment Crystals will expire on Oct 18 @ 17:00 UTC. For more information, please see this post: https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/346104/updates-to-enlistment-gifting-event
To prevent exploitation, we will prevent new Accounts from being able to Gift enlistment crystals. We will also be taking action on those who are using 3rd Party Sellers, Bots and other farms to gift themselves mass amounts of Enlistment Crystals. Lastly, we will be adding an expiration timer to Enlistment Crystals. All unopened Enlistment Crystals will expire on Oct 18 @ 17:00 UTC. For more information, please see this post: https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/346104/updates-to-enlistment-gifting-event
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What i REALLY want to know now though @Kabam Miike are the odds of pulling not only a featured but anything other than a 3* out of FGMC... i spent a fortune over the last 6 months and out of 90x FGMC i pulled 89x 3* and a 4* antman... if "rare chance" means 1:1000 there is no way anyone would ever spend $ on those... if its 1:100 i must be the unluckiest person on the face of the earth... btw, I'm 0-15 in 5* pulls since october (means i have only ever pulled champs from the basic - ****- pool and never got any of the ew additions) and 0-5 in featured 5* pulls... can anyone explain those odds to me? (i call bulls$!it on the same odds to pull any given champ statement
"Extra care". Ridiculous. You literally just had a community vote on the most sought after champs, and not one of them is part of this pool. This is an absolute joke. I assume we can expect the drop rate for Blade to be slashed for his featured crystal?
This dude for real?
My guy, The community doesn't go for a featured crystal to get any of the champs you listed.
They pay the extra 5K for an INCREASED CHANCE at getting the desired featured 5-Star champ.
Now they will pay the extra 5K for a DECREASED CHANCE at getting the desired featured 5-Star champ. That's a fact.
Are you sure Kabam employees play the game? and they thought this idea was an improvement to the state of the game? or perhaps, their bottom line.
I think you totally misunderstood my post. What this is in regards to is somebody saying that they would not like to pull a Storm from that Crystal, and I was saying that this is still possible even right now, as well as other Champions that they might now want, so this doesn't change that.
Hearthstone has one of the hottest CM's in the business .... Zeriyah
...and I don't like the plans for the new meh 15k 5 star crystal.
#SaveForBlade
You really have to squeeze a specific narrative to make this crystal change somehow hand an advantage to bigger spenders they did not already have. Everything you can do, they can do more. Every random opportunity that exists is something they can execute more times than you can. Those people could go for every single featured crystal they wanted to, and almost certainly open more of them than you. If the featured 5* crystal didn't exist now and Kabam announced it, people would be saying it was a pay to win crystal because the average player can only open a few of them and can't guarantee getting the featured but the whales could easily acquire enough 5* shards to open as many as it took to always guarantee getting the featureds they want, giving them a huge advantage.
The only game feature someone hasn't framed as an advantage to the whales is the login calendar.
If you are a beginning player, your odds of getting one specific featured champion will be lower. But your odds of getting *a* featured champion have gone up, your odds of avoiding the lowest performing champions has gone down, and your odds of duplicating a 5* have gone up dramatically. I would bet money that for most players of the game, that's a net positive.
The players facing a net loss overall are players that get a moderate to high (but not super high) amount of shards and do enough research to target the highest performing featured champions. I consider myself to be one of those players that could see a drop in value in the featured crystals because of this, albeit a small one. The very top players that either earn tons of shards or spend tons of money will likely see things mostly the same. Less likely to get a targeted featured, more likely to draw champions that can improve their roster if they wait for the right iteration of the crystal.
Whales have a lot of advantages in the announced system. But they don't really have any global advantage they don't already have. Whales can spend money on units to buy featured crystals to get what they want, but not only can they do that now, they have to be already doing that now. Because they are whales: that's what whales do.
Something else that I think will take some calculation to figure out. Because the crystal contents and its lifetime availability is something different, it is unclear to me how 6* shards factor into the value of the crystal. Even with the smaller pool of champions the current featured has a higher chance to dup a champ (because of the high chance to pull featured in the first place) than the announced crystal, but that is only after the first pull. You can't dup the featured in the first pull (barring things like pulling twice on the initial and the rerun) so the actual chance to generate 6* shards is complicated by the number of times you're likely to open the same crystal. You're less likely to open the current featured more often than the announced one because the announced one spreads out the odds of getting what you want across more than one champion. Over longer periods of time, I think it will be strategically possible to decide on when to open featured crystals based more on the likelihood of generating 6* shards than on which champions you are likely to pull. And that also is an effect it is not obvious to me if it slants towards some players disproportionately more than others.
They had to reduce the champs you could pull to something manageable, and they're giving themselves some leeway as to what champs they will be in the final decision in case we freak out too much about any one champ in particular. Like Ant Man, who sucks.
Apple's decisions regarding probabilities will also promp a change in "featured" 4* crystals as well. Either it will be something like what they're doing here or they will post the probabilities where you buy the crystal.
I'm not sure if this is a serious question, because it is directly answered in the post you're quoting. The answer to your question is they cannot be, and no one ever said they were. Kabam has said that the odds of pulling any particular champion in the basic crystal is always identical between champions, not identical to those odds at a different time when the contents are different. That's why I explicitly said They can't quote a number like that in most other crystals because the number of champions is different at different times.
With the exception of 1 or 2 champs this list is trash.
Consistently good regen: Doc Ock, Nebula (maybe, and only if you get hit).
Double immune: Nebula
Bleed immune: no one
Poison immune: Ronan
Power control: Hawkeye, Doc Ock, Civil Warrior
Defense: Juggs (needs to be duped and 5/5MD), Mordo
Ability accuracy reducers: Civil Warrior
Shrug off Debuff: Agent Venom
Nebula is mediocre.
Ronan sucks.
Hawkeye while still has good utility is replaced by Magik and Vodoo and OG Vision, etc..
Juggs get torn through with Blade tho he's decent.
Civil Warrior ability reductions pales in comparison to Archangel, Voodoo, etc..
Agent Venom is a tough defender in very low tiers but has terrible offense.
No offense but nobody wants any of the champs listed except for Doc Ock and maybe Hela.
Terrible utility champs, poor double immunes, terrible regen, barely anyone worth taking into AQ or AW, defensively or offensively. Your team must be getting their information from map 2/3 players who don't know how to evade Cyclops' beams and are forced to use their Antman's and Ronans.
What is this, early 2016?
Correct, we could still get one of those champs, such as Storm. However, the chances for going for the "featured" champ have been reduced from what the community believes to be roughly 20% to ~4%. Now I know you could argue saying that getting one of the featured champs is 25% (6/24) but considering we currently have a sub featured pool already, the chances are similar from this point of view. So realistically we are losing the increase chance of pulling a specific champ, but keeping similar odds of getting a featured champ (from the last 6). I am looking at this from a math point of view, regardless of who the other 18 champs are because it seems we are paying the same amount for the same odds of getting one of the six featured champs but losing the increased chance at the specific one we are trying for.
Trust Kabam to take something good and to turn it to sh*t... -.-
People were able to go directly for what they actually want, of corse they couldn't leave it like that...people were too happy with that, right?!
Of corse we needed a bigger chance of getting something else then what we actually want...thank you -.-
Edit: That's a 25% chance to pull a Featured. I was thinking there were 18 in the Crystal. Still more than we estimated. Just not for one specific Champ.
Anyone who does that is an idiot. But that's not the reason to buy the new featureds. You buy them if the value of the crystal is worth 50% more than the value of a basic crystal. There's lots of ways to calculate or just intuit by feel what that is. If you don't feel the crystal's value in total is better than the basic crystal, then you wait for the next one or buy basics.
Even the current featured crystals are not something I just buy because the odds are better. They have to be better enough because ultimately it is all about value, not about mindlessly pursuing one goal.
If players are just opening featureds because someone else told them to Pavlovian-like, then my recommendation is when the change happens just buy basics. Even I'm not likely to buy the first iteration of the new crystal, because the value proposition doesn't seem worth it to me relative to the premium. But that's no different than me passing on other featured 5* crystals to save for Iceman, or Sparky, or Blade. Sometimes the value is worth it, sometimes it isn't. It is just going to be a little harder to decide if the value is worth it in a crystal with 24 equal chance champions. But if I do buy one, it won't be because I'm spending an extra 5k for a decreased chance at a featured. It will be because the value of the crystal taken as a whole is worth my shards.
That's the only good reason to open any crystal.
Let me translate that for you real quick:
"more interesting" means you now have a better chance on getting a Luke Cage instead of the featured you were hoping for! How exciting...
...who didn't want the chance of getting what you actually want reduced so you actually have a higher chance of getting Garbage Tier Champion instead. Wow, so much more interesting... -.-
They take sh*t and tell you it's gold!
Watch out! Someone pooped in the pool.
“and then a big brown shark came....!”
I say just reduce the size of the pool.
Add 6 champs monthly: 2 new, 4 old. Easy peasy.
When will he be added? I was excited to open 100k in Feb to try for him in basic and put the rest in his featured. This is really cramping my plans man. I'm not even sure what to do now with 180k saved.. Just throw it all at blade? Ugh
I give you props for replying to so many comments on here and I do see a few good things about this new crystal like being able to dupe more to farm 6 star shards or how we can still pull garbage in current featured crystal but 15k may be steep for the chances. Maybe if yall just put all decent champs in one of them I will spin a few but I can tell you right now I am not wasting my time on GM crystals.. all of your crystals we can buy are a **** shoot almost a scam. I hope y'all consider increasing the odds especially since most pay real money for these and $100 for a bunch of three stars may have someone one suicide watch or at least rage quit watch.
Again thank you like for your time please relay to the team that we can pick better champs that have real use in AQ and AW.
Ps. I'm with you on Cyclops if he wasn't so easy to evade. Sp bias 1 with 1 bar of power he could merk noobs.
For those of us, who saved for 6 or 7 months to target champs that will help us with content, this intentionally deceptive manipulative and dishonest attempt to nerf 5 star feature shards puts us further behind the top players.
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