"APX_919;c-2003174" wrote:
Confirmation bias at work. We as humans look for meaningful patterns in everything and often seek out patterns that fit preconceived notions. When we find them, we run with them even if the pattern wasn't actually there to begin with. We want something to be true so we create a way to make it true.
"I want stun guns for my toon but I am not getting them. Because I favorited them, the drop rates must have been lowered, it is the most logical explanation." Erroneous and illogical but oh so many people buy into the pattern.
Yeah, I've heard this one before and I get the concept. But at some point we have to ask the question. I'm posing a hypothesis is all. I don't think it's unreasonable to question the motives and tactics of the developers this way. Yes, they are providing a game we enjoy. Yes, some things are meant to be a struggle. But they also do have a financial interest in not giving us for free what they can charge us for. Shame on us if we accept everything represented to us at face value.