Board Thread:Game Discussions/@comment-115.70.170.169-20140915095156/@comment-67.183.36.158-20141210172159

Rookey1 wrote: To the commenter above: LOL, you must have some insider information directly from the developers ('there IS in fact...', 'there IS in fact...') that would implicate unlawful actions by Gree in the form of misleading advertising, as they promote something like an '8-x chance' for *every given player*, while your comment would suggest that there is a formula that makes the actual chance based *on the individual player and/or a fixed number of epics* available per day.

If that were true, Gree weren't allowed to claim that you have an '8x-chance', but if it is a certain time of the day, the actual chance would maybe be '15-x' when some theoretical 'computer cycle' starts (total crap IMO, there is no 'computer cycle' but basically an incremental second counter the date and time of date is encoded in), while only a '0-x' chance would remain at the end of such an illusional 'cycle'. Misleading advertising, I want my money back!!! As someone who has developed games before, I consider this 'Epic conspiracy' theory utter crap, just as most 'conspiracy theories' are - sorry for sayin'. It *does* indeed make sense to control the number of high-value items to maintain a balance in the game, but you would do so by defining the formula of probability accordingly, not by 'filling up slots' for every item over a given day. This would indicate horrible programming and game design to the core (which, despite all the bugs, I don't think there is), apart from potential lawsuits filed by customers.

I don't know why people like you enjoy so much sticking to your awkward theories - maybe it gives you some sense of 'control' over things that are actually far beyond your control. Personally, I would rather like Gree to provide transparent information about the actual chances of getting epics in general, instead of advertising with a '#-x' chance of some unknown factor (probably an estimated 0.03) that is intentionally kept in the dark, thus still misleading most of their paying customers (most of which lack of mathematical skills and have to reveal this factor in the most costly way, namely by investing hundreds of dollars first). It would improve our ability of taking rational decisions whether the chance is really worth it and help to prevent such 'mystery theories' like the above. But then, as I have said before, I think in a very odd way these theories are probably making the company even more money, so as long as they can exploit people who believe them, they will probably continue to do. You obviously didn't pass math class. There is no such thing as pure randomness, and there is always an algorithm. So nice try.