**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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Money can directly buy crystals (Money offers) or buy Units which can then be used to buy crystals. If you buy something that says 2% chance at a 7-star, but Kabam has illegally rigged it to actually be 0.5% chance at a 7-star, then that is illegal because legal tender (money) was involved.
Conversely, Nintendo can rig Mario Kart so that the enemy AI gets better items than you from the item boxes, and it is not illegal because players aren't paying money for the item boxes.
Just because it's a game, doesn't mean it doesn't have to follow the same rules as retailers and such. We're consumers and we have protection laws.
Well depends on how we’re using “rigging”. If you ONLY mean that the desired outcomes are less probable than undesirable ones then there isn’t a crime. In fact Casinos (of which kabam is one) build themselves on the premise that they can set up systems in this manner.
If by “rigging” you mean incongruence between the stated odds and actual odds then I believe that goes into consumer protections. If I lied about a game being 50/50 I could draw in people who would otherwise not play if they knew it was instead, say, a 1 in 1000 chance of winning. Although Im unsure about the specific code which in infracted upon my guess involves false advertising: https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/advertising-marketing-internet-rules-road within which the FTC states that marketing is deceptive if it is likely to:
- mislead consumers and
- affect consumers' behavior or decisions about the product or service.
Could be a wholly different statue of course but thats where Id imagine the issue lies.
Come on, I mean, it was sitting right there, all tee'd up for you…
“MIIKE DROP” 😀
I feel worse now I got to be jealous of 25.387 people who got Bullseye and I didn't 😭
(Yeh yeh to the fact check forum police: I know that doesnt equate to total of people. A team mate of mine pulled him 4 times in one opening. I'm just simplifying it for my audience 😑).
You clearly have spent ample time formulating a way to deflect how damnatory these patents are, but you should study them a bit further if you want a defense that isn't full of holes. It's not really the point, but it's worth mentioning that everything described in both patents, is exactly the kind of behavior that one would describe as a "rigged" crystal. The more relevant consideration however, is that it clearly displays that the crystals use a system where probability components can... and are... being manipulated. There is no valid argument to be made that these patents, should they be applied, aren't more than enough evidence to determine that the crystals are rigged in every sense of the word.
As one person here acutely stated, there is no proof on either side. Other than the patents, there is nothing that amounts to anything more than empirical evidence. Consequently, our reasoning would be abductive at best. Also, when mentioning cognitive biases in context of this topic, it's worth considering, that most people don't want to believe these crystals are rigged. So you have to ask yourself, if in the face evidence, are you just falling victim to confirmation bias by continuing to believe that they aren't?
So what are we left with? We are left with Kabam's word that malicious patents exist, but aren't active. They are saying that it would be illegal. If so, why does the company have illegal patents? This is the same company that has told us they haven't changed AI over the last 9 years. This means that there is no logical way to deny, that until some kind of proof is given that the crystals aren't rigged, it's perfectly fair and reasonable for anyone to think that they are.
I can think of several reasons, but here's just one, and its the most important one. Both patents describe methods of altering the drop odds of lootboxes to encourage players to buy more of them. They try to encourage spenders to spend more on them. They try to encourage players who decide the lootboxes don't have enough value to start chasing them again.
HOW CAN THEY DO THAT IF THEY DO NOT TELL THE PLAYERS THEY HAVE DONE THIS?
You're saying their strategy for making more money is to improve the drop odds of the crystals and then deliberately lie about it and claim they didn't do that to the very people they are trying to convince to buy more?That's not just conspiratorial, that's completely brain dead.
Standard deviation for those drops is about 122.4. So you'd expect about sixteen data points to fall within 122 drops of the average (25487) and about twenty three to fall within 245 drops of the average. In fact, 15 data points fall within one standard deviation and one falls outside of two (meaning twenty three fall within two). That's basically what you would expect, and often the first thing to go out the window when someone just makes stuff up.
There is a duplicate value: Deadpool-X and Terrax. Made up data often deliberately avoids duplicates, because they don't "look random." The average person probably thinks that when you pick just 24 numbers around 25000 +- a few hundred, the odds of two numbers being identical are very low. However, given the data clusters within two standard deviations, which is a spread of 490, and a high percentage are within one standard deviation, which is a spread of about 245, the odds of a collision within 24 data points is actually pretty high. One is about what you'd expect (cf: Birthday Paradox).
Also, in a set like this, you'd expect the last digit, and probably the last two digits, of all the measurements to be essentially random (since standard deviation is over one hundred), and they appear to be. Once again, when analyzing for tampering it is instructive to look for what is not there. The last digit of the data has no "8", while the second to last digit has no "3". The rest of the digits have a fairly wide dispersal, which you'd expect from a relatively small set of data. Manipulated data tends to be more even, because human generated data tends to engineer "random" distributions to be much more smooth.
I've looked over the data in a number of different ways, and I can't see any obvious signs of tampering in the data. Again, the trivial way to fake crystal data is to actually use a random number generator to generate your results, because that's what the crystals themselves actually do, or are supposed to be doing. There's no way to prove the data is legitimate in that sense. What I can say is *if* the data is legitimate, there's no obvious signs of bias in that data. Featured champs are not under represented, in fact they are very slightly over represented (but well within the margin you'd expect). Out of 611687 drops you'd expect 152922 to be featured champs: there are actually 153261. And if we focus on the presumptive top two most desirable champs in the crystal - Onslaught and Bullseye - one of them is 100 drops below the average and one is 80 drops higher than the average, again entirely consistent with random chance.
Random appears to be random.
This is pretty much annoying for me, Relics anytime I open one I receive Champ A the next time I might have enough to open two and I receive Champ A and B I open another I receive Champ B and it continues none stop.
So before I opened 1 4 Star relics I received Ms Marvel and here I opened 3 this time and receive all 3 Ms Marvel, now you can't tell me RNG is this terrible, and there are so many other relics I still haven't received but I keep duping ones I already have none stop...
Note: the devs were likely working on Hood's rebalance literally while I was spinning these crystals. This was in September 2020, Hood's buff was released in early 2021. Not that that means anything in particular, but it does add additional weirdness factor to it.