Should CW cards be given out

(Faraleth) #21

Guaranteeing a card with X amount of credit purchases would really screw over anyone who bought into elite cases for a higher chance at this point. I’m kind of playing devil’s advocate here, because personally I would love to see everyone with their favourite loadouts in the shiny camo, because it’s a wonderful skin! But there’s only a certain degree of what Splash Damage and Nexon can do moving forwards, without pissing off a bunch of people.

So my ideal scenario would be:

  • Free CW elite case weekend on the final weekend of the promotion (20th-22nd November).
  • Future events like this one have HIGHER drop-rates, such as those suggested and voted upon in the Containment War Initial Feedback survey (around 3%-5% for equipment cases).
  • In future events, DIRECTLY sell cases that guarantee an event card drop. Don’t force people to buy a 10 pack of elite cases for them.

One argument you could make is that CW cards are entirely cosmetic, and thus are non-essential to gameplay and a fantastic way for F2P games to make money. And I personally have no problem with this either, I think exclusive skins are awesome and I’d gladly pay for them!

…the problem is the RNG. You could argue giving F2P players a chance at getting premium skins for free is pretty awesome! But again, the drop-rate is pretty awful. Not only this, but the promotion also isn’t very real-money friendly either, costing a whopping £27.99/$34.99 just for ONE guaranteed one. Pricey, pricey.

And it gets even worse when you add on the fact that it’s random skins, random mercs and random loadouts. I believe someone worked it out to be 0.00027% chance of getting a CW loadout you want from an equipment case. It’s just pretty poor all-round, but that’s just my opinion. They need to take the feedback from this one and not screw over as many people with RNG in the next one. LET PEOPLE LOOK PRETTY DAMN IT.

(Aazhyd) #22

Totally agree with this. The whole pay for loadout thing is wrong in DB. Everything else is pretty solid though. There definitely is a middle ground that pleases the crowd but also earns Nexon money.

I myself haven’t put money in DB so far, while I could easily have done it (I’ve done so for several other F2P games). That’s because I have no guarantee whatsoever that I get something useful out of it.

(darlingClaymore) #23

Hmm I see ideas, the community is not one sided on this. Is nexon going to increase the drop rate? before this event ends

(Runeforce) #24

Nah, I got the best possible CW loadout in my first couple of free event cases, so screw you guys!

(Rewten) #25

Like they’ve said future events they will change the chance of getting the rare loadouts, I haven’t received and CW loadouts yet but I don’t feel entitled to receiving one. If you have spent money on the elite cases you can get one for the 10 elite bundle and that’s fair as you are actually supporting the developers. But if you’re playing this game for free not spending money you can’t expect to be given a free CW loudout just because they’re rare.

That being said free stuff is always nice, but feeling like you should get it free because you haven’t got one yet shouldn’t be the reasoning.

(darlingClaymore) #26

Rude, don’t Be a !@#! is the motto.

(SereneFlight) #27

With abysmal odds guaranteed card for every 100/150/whatever cases would be nice.

They could have done it with CW cases but they refused to do so even tho they had a lot of time.
They could as well not fix the bugs in the game and say “we’ll do better job with next game”…

(ostmustis) #28

a free cw card is pointless without an ability to reroll it :frowning:

(Runeforce) #29

Yes, come on, gimme those dislikes. Glad you peeps are so good at identifying sarcasm!

[quote=“darlingClaymore;110665”]
Rude, don’t Be a !@#! is the motto. [/quote]

Aww, sowwy dude(tte), I missed the marketing bullshit hypetrain.

If people could just live up to that motto in-game, we would have half a victory. <-- my first non-sarcastic remark in this thread.

(DMaster2) #30

It’s for collection purpose. Like “i was there”.

(p4v) #31

@Faraleth
That would give out more cards than 1. If you are for increasing the drop rate, you should be also for giving out 1 guaranteed random CW card since the 2nd option is worse than what you wrote.

(Faraleth) #32

[quote=“p4v;110840”]
That would give out more cards than 1. If you are for increasing the drop rate, you should be also for giving out 1 guaranteed random CW card since the 2nd option is worse than what you wrote.[/quote]

I didn’t mean for THIS event, I meant for future ones. Increasing the drop-rate now is not an option, nor is randomly giving everyone a free CW card, as much as I would love to see everyone have their favourite loadouts in CW. It would have too much of a negative effect either way, you can’t change a promotion once it’s gone live, it’s just bad business.

There can definitely be a lot learned from this one though, so next time if they do something like this again, they can increase the drop-rate of give people 1 at the start. :slight_smile:

(Lumi) #33

They already stated they wouldn’t change that. The Containment War and its loadouts are supposed to be an event, at least giving one card to people login in at a certain date should be a thing.

(avidCow) #34

[quote=“Izzy;110351”]Loadouts are the way for DB to pay the Devs, servers and everything needed to have the best gaming experience. Paying for elite cases to have CW loadouts is our way to sponsor them and help as well.

You can’t financially help now? then just play and enlarge the community to attract more paying people, but don’t be to greedy as well. You are already playing a game that cost you nothing but cost others a lot.[/quote]

Greed? Whatever mate. I bought in and also buy mercs, but I will never buy cards.

(darlingClaymore) #35

We need a way to say hey, I was in this update. Id be happy with, get a CW phoenix if you have obisidan phoenix, and people who have phoenix get a CW (insert merc) or vice versa

(uWotm8-AU) #36

No, spend some money if you want a guaranteed CW loadout.

This is a F2P game, the devs owe you nothing.