"7AnimalMother;c-1963961" wrote:
"Nikoms565;c-1963542" wrote:
"7AnimalMother;c-1963284" wrote:
These threads are pointless.
Neither the people arguing that they changed or didn't change have any evidence to back it up.
The only people who have any evidence is the employees at EA (and likely very few of them at that).
Everything in this game is done at EA's whim. By playing this game, you are essentially agreeing to take at face value whatever they state drop rates are.
Could they advertise "double drops" and then halve the drop rate? Absolutely they could. They are not regulated for gambling, so they have no independent auditors overseeing them.
Would they do it? Who knows... Anyone who makes a freemium game is at least a little scummy in my mind, so I wouldn't put it past them. Couple the profit motive with no oversight, and I could certainly see it.
But if they did, it doesn't matter because you can't prove it. As others have pointed out, the data of 20, 40, or even a 100 people on the forum isn't a sufficient sample size to prove anything given a player base somewhere around a million or more.
Search is your friend. Entire guilds have tracked drop rates - and yes, during "double drops" and events. When people track the data over a decent enough sample size, the results and drop rates are always the same - 30-33% for shards, 20% for gear (purple anyway). ALWAYS.
Add to that fact (yes, fact) that the developers have repeatedly stated that drop rates don't change. Ever.
There's a lot of things that CG /EA do with this game that I am not necessarily a fan of - but they don't manipulate drop rates. And people who suggest they do are simply too lazy to actually track the data over a respectable sample size.
If you say so. Search seems to just find a lot more anecdotal evidence and confirmation bias one way or the other, so I think your talking out of your butt.
Oh, and here's a couple more:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SWGalaxyOfHeroes/comments/9l0vbj/finished_my_first_single_hard_node_farm_sabine_i/
https://www.reddit.com/r/SWGalaxyOfHeroes/comments/6tvur9/my_old_benz_farming_statistics/
Sorry if actual facts and objectively tracked data get in the way of "fake news bombs" and name calling. Some people are adult enough to admit when they are mistaken. Some bury the head and in the sand (or pull their tin foil hat down harder so it covers their ears) so they can't hear the truth.
It's one thing to be lazy and not look up the data for yourself - but it's an insult to your fellow players who have actually taken the time and done the work to ignore the data they've spent hours collecting or pretend it doesn't exist.
