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Larger question is why it took weeks to come up with this “appreciation” package. Which departments at Kabam had a hand in it? What were the alternatives considered and why was this the winner?
I’m still trying to remember if this was the same problem the game team sought out community help to resolve.
Dr. Zola
They don't care.
Today they showed anyone still wondering that they absolutely, positively do not care anymore. I will never spend another cent on this game and it makes me sad marvel has their name attached to such utterly morally bankrupt people making these decisions.
That would be interesting to see, although I doubt the devs really think about what "acceptable randomness" means because they assume the RNG functions supplied by their compiler is sufficiently random. I'd personally monitor those statistics if I was in charge, though, as those would alert them to systematic errors introduced by bugs in the random drop algorithms, which I've seen happen a few times.
I’d feel better if you were monitoring them.
Many, many years ago Walter Matthau taught me what happens when you “assume” in The Bad News Bears.
Dr. Zola
I'm honestly confused. Although a moderator commented that the summoner appreciation week announcement was in fact what Kabam was referring to earlier when they said they were discussing compensation for various issues, the actual announcement doesn't anywhere state that this is compensation for anything. That's doubly weird in the context of Miike's statement that Kabam views compensation as something intended to be specific and targeted, and intended *only* to replace direct losses due to problems, not to compensate for intangibles or losses outside of the game. That would seem to imply that all compensation packages would specify not only that they were compensation packages, but what specifically they were compensation packages for.
Since we've had summoner appreciation events in the past, and since the actual intent of summoner appreciation events should be (its right in the title) to give something over and above normal to show appreciation, an SA cannot simultaneously function as a compensation for anything. So this seems extremely poorly thought out to me. I can't even describe it as "cowardly" or even "bad." It seems completely random and untargeted.
The comment mentioning it as compensation is from Kabam Lyra a little further down in the event discussion thread. The more I reread it, the more cryptic it all seems.
I used “cowardly” because my initial read was that it was apparently tossed together after weeks of doing nothing, an interim package could have been provided that would have assuaged some of the energy and resource drain during July’s events, and there was no real mention of apology or compensation or restitution or whatever people want to call it. It was just tossed out there. In that vein, I’m fine with random and untargeted too.
Dr. Zola
In fact, this statement is not difficult to prove false. Crystal openings that are live streamed, and thus cannot be self-selected to be better or worse than average, demonstrate conclusively that this statement is astronomically improbable.
Is it safe to say their approach fails to make you feel appreciated?
Dr. Zola
If they are using consumer psychology their application is flawed. Customer satisfaction is worth more $ than other factors. Happy customers speak highly of your product and tell people who aren't using your product to try it, this often creates more customers and more revenue long-term. IMHO MCOC would benefit more if people with backgrounds in Economics offered advice because numbers are easier to apply than theories on how people behave in and react to situations.
There seems to be this weird narrative that many people feel perfectly comfortable with, that Kabam is simultaneously incredible mad geniuses when it comes to planning monetization efficiency and psychological manipulation, and yet completely incompetent at actually implementing those plans.
Someone once said, and I'm almost paraphrasing literally, that everything Kabam does they only do because it makes them more money, and it is because of this that no one wants to spend on the game anymore. This should be a koan.
Kabam is a game development studio, and like all such studios they have good days and bad days, smart people and less smart people, they do good things and they make terrible errors. *Nothing* Kabam does isn't something I've seen many, many times before (but that's not a good thing), and I doubt they are doing it maliciously. Sometimes, that's just the best they can do, and sometimes, that's just what someone decided was the best they could do.
A part of me is even wondering if things like "summoner appreciation" are even a developer thing, or actually something publishing has ultimate authority over. They used to self-publish, but I wonder if Netmarble is really the publisher now.
I believe I've done professional statistical analysis, I've done it for actual online games, I've detected and helped correct statistical errors in random drop systems, and proven random generators to be statistically random within the normal criteria for randomness generally accepted for those systems. Also, I was one of the people who did the early analysis of PHC drops and 5* featured drops, and I'm one of the original sources for the "20-25%" drop numbers, as well as the source for the "1 in 100 to 1 in 120" 4* drop odds from the pre-published PHCs.
Statistical analysis cannot explicitly prove that a drop odds number is something exactly, but it can prove beyond a reasonable doubt what the range of values can be, and it can rule out other possibilities such as skewed odds.
Also: I'm not debating you: I'm correcting you.
I think the general rule of thumb is never to assume malice when incompetence is a reasonable explanation.
Hence, incompetence it is.
Dr. Zola
That's a pretty safe assumption...
Well, being that I use iOS, I doubt I’m gonna be cooling off anytime soon. I WAS planning on removing the bandages from my hands, but on second thought, it doesn’t seem like the burns are healing in the foreseeable future.
On that note, all in favor of raising hellfire when they come back? I just know I’ll be steaming over the weekend.