**Mastery Loadouts**
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
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I don't think it is rigged, but I am surprised that so many didn't want a mutant given how poor the returns on that class have been lately.
Wait, is your username a re:zero reference? I just realized lol.
Furthermore, you actually have to play the game to vote in-game. That was part of the point. Everyone got one vote, but then had to earn additional ballots through in-game objectives, which made Summoner's Choice a player engagement exercise, not a democracy.
Forum voting adds a very tiny and easy to foil element of transparency**, at the cost of eliminating 99.9% of the players from voting by adding a special hurdle to voting most players do not currently jump through.
** If you think Kabam can't manipulate forum votes, that's ridiculous. *I* could do it easily.
When "no preference" vastly outnumbers everyone, even Blob, the winner tends to get dictated by sometimes trivial factors. Sometimes people start voting for whomever they think will win. Sometimes people start voting for whomever their friends want. And sometimes people just look at all eight and pick by gut instinct. I suspect most players fell into that category.
And honestly, I think in the gut-instinct pool of players Blob was operating at a disadvantage. If you know nothing about the characters or have no attachment to them, Blob is not the one I think most players would say "that's the one I want to see." Blob has name recognition, Blob has deep history, but Blob is also a big guy that hits stuff.
To think it would take a conspiracy for the Darkity Dark Wasp Chick and Nearly As Dark Immortal Mobster to beat out Type 1 Diabetes King is a bit of a stretch.
RIGGED FROM THE BEGINNING!
Seriously though I hadn’t heard of any of the characters this time around aside from blob, I was a Ruby enthusiast but Shathra seems cool so voting for her in the finals.
If this is sarcastic comment, well played. If this is a serious, wow. Just wow...
But also I'm just rattled that we don't get BLOB. I can imagine is that it's a bunch of children and teenagers in-game voting for the 'edgy' looking characters.
And your logic doesn't hold. The idea that how popular someone appears to be in a public forum should directly correlate to how popular they are across the entire population is literally the fundamental fallacy that randomized statistical sampling is designed to overcome.
The players on the forums are self-selected to be among the highest engaged players, at least in terms of discussing the game. Our opinions do not come close to representing the playerbase at large. I am probably one of the most (in)famous forum posters in this game. I would bet more than half the players of this game have never heard of me.
More people play this game than read Marvel comic books. The vast majority of players of this game have never heard of most of the champions before they appeared in the game. Even players who are familiar with some of the Marvel characters that have appeared in MCU movies don't necessarily know all of them, because most movie goers do not watch every single Marvel property. The number of players who even knows who Blob is, given that his biggest appearance outside of the comic books was in X-Men Origins Wolverine, not the most popular X-Men movie, is probably not super high, nor would most of the people who saw him in that movie necessarily have an especially strong attachment to the character.
The logical assumption is that most players of the game did not have a strong favorite, and just voted based on a ten second appraisal of which character looked the coolest. Logically, is that him:
Or her?
The "noise" on the forums for *all* the choices combined, was coming from just a few dozen of us. Maybe a few hundred total voices combined. Thinking that this would govern how hundreds of thousands of players would vote is no different from assuming that where everyone in your carpool decides to vote to go to lunch should represent the culinary preferences of the United States.
Don't even get me started on social media. If I thought social media accurately represented the human population of Earth, I'd hack a missile silo to start world war 3 so Earth could start over with the bees.