"Double" drops should have an asterisk next to it!

I just had 22 mk IV stun guns drop for 36 battles. I don't experience lower drop rates.

"TVF;c-1962230" wrote:
Disagree with OP.

As usual

"Plank420;c-1962539" wrote:

"TVF;c-1962230" wrote:
Disagree with OP.

As usual

Yes, every time someone repeats a conspiracy theory based on no evidence.

What I've learned from the forums today:

1) People who agree with OP = conspiracy theorists.

2) People who disagree with OP = trolls.

Allow me to join the second category. Double drops has never equaled double rates and CG does not alter drop rates based on events/favorited toons/money spent or for any reason. People want to have good RNG "luck" and when thjs doesn't happen they cope by telling themselves the system is clearly rigged.

Aesop called btw, wants to talk about the fox and sour grapes.

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.

@7AnimalMother
Hit them with that truth bomb ?

EA hire and outside source and let them investigate. Sow everyone what’s up.

I want to see who is right. Let the chaos begin.

"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.

"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.

50 people out of millions isn't a acceptable sample size we need at least 3,000 guilds of data otherwise your data is insufficient to prove the rates have increased during double drops. Just 1 guild lol.

Ok u wanna base everything on just this one guild... Was it a pay to win guild or a free to play guild. How many paid that month, did paying increase their drops? How did their numbers compare to a guild where no one paid anything that month?

Might want to read that again.

I'm starting a tin foil hat sales company. To several in this thread, just post what size I should pre-order for you. :D