Stop with your shitty RNG events

(GodsMistake) #21

I understand your frustration but crafting cobalts is also an option as well. I’ve gotten 1 shell shock case (I don’t own the trinket), but I intend to get it. I’ve gotten cobalts from random case drops and I’ve purchased cases in 5-10k game cash increments. I went through 5 cases yesterday with 4 bronze and 1 lead. It’s possible to trade up (I’ve got 19 cobalts).

I play cause it’s fun. Cobalt and other “special” cards are just skins. And while skins are important to some people, it’s not the end of the world. I wish the trading system was in place because I’d love to get some “duplicate or garbage” content from people. But, I play for entertainment. I loved rtcw and et so this game is perfect to me.

(ThunderZsolt) #22

@OwynTyler said:
I was super-dissapointed that closed proxy case for 500 blue credits is limited to ONE purchase… great random again :#

wait, is it?
Unless SD plans to introduce trading or steam community market really soon, there is literally no reason to limit the amount to one.

Looks like they want us get a shitty shotgun loadout gathering dust in the inventory, rendering their work on the skins useless.

(OwynTyler) #23

I really hope when (!!!) they finally divide customization into two - skins and loadouts - it would affect old cards bringing back all the players who left in despair after such events

wait, is it?

yeap it is, I was lucky enough that I found that out before (and instead of) buying blue credits with normal ones…

(Meerkats) #24

@GodsMistake said:
I play cause it’s fun. Cobalt and other “special” cards are just skins. And while skins are important to some people, it’s not the end of the world. I wish the trading system was in place because I’d love to get some “duplicate or garbage” content from people. But, I play for entertainment. I loved rtcw and et so this game is perfect to me.
I am highly rewards driven. If there is a reward, I play to obtain those rewards. And between my accounts, I probably have 800 hours logged in this game. And all of this doesn’t matter cause they don’t detract from the fact that the events are terrible.

This is a Splash Damage party:

You walk into a beautiful garden. There is a glistening pool, full of attractive people in too little clothes. An oddly similar group of people are playing volleyball nearby over an immaculately maintained grass lawn. Replicants? Clones? You shake that thought out of your mind. Tables of delicious luxury piled high next to seasonally appropriate containers overflowing with amazing prizes. There’s even a car ( Tesla Model S ) they’re giving away for whatever reason in the middle of it all.

But before you can get to any of that, there are rows and rows of slot machines. There are hundreds of people slaving away at the slot machines, because the only way to get anything at all is to play their games. So you join the withered, tortured souls and play. For hours and hours you are sat in front of your slot machine, and then, then you win. You win food! Oh, you are so hungry. You’ve been sat, pulling a stupid lever, staring at stupid rows of stupid symbols for hours. You’re so hungry. They escort you to the table with all the delectable delights, and as you reach for the amazing looking eclair, they slap your hand away. Nono, that’s not for you. Or maybe it is. There’s another slot machine to play. So you pull that stupid lever one last time. Mouse with a squiggly tail. Two red balloons. Renault F1 race car. Leonardo diCaprio. What the fuck does this all even mean?! Your server knows. He walks behind table, and a moment later, brings you your food. It is balut. In futile rage, you scream at your server, “FFUUUCCCCCKKK YYYOOOOOUUUUU!!!” The server looks at you, shrugs, turns around and wordlessly walks away.

You wish you had joined your friend, who ran out of spins two hours ago, and decided to go to McDonald’s ( which is a metaphor for a competing game ending in “erwatch” ) instead of wasting more time.

Somewhere, a man in a suit clinks a cup of champagne with another man in a suit. “Another perfect party.”

(BazBling) #25

@Meerkats said:

@GodsMistake said:
I play cause it’s fun. Cobalt and other “special” cards are just skins. And while skins are important to some people, it’s not the end of the world. I wish the trading system was in place because I’d love to get some “duplicate or garbage” content from people. But, I play for entertainment. I loved rtcw and et so this game is perfect to me.
I am highly rewards driven. If there is a reward, I play to obtain those rewards. And between my accounts, I probably have 800 hours logged in this game. And all of this doesn’t matter cause they don’t detract from the fact that the events are terrible.

This is a Splash Damage party:

You walk into a beautiful garden. There is a glistening pool, full of attractive people in too little clothes. An oddly similar group of people are playing volleyball nearby over an immaculately maintained grass lawn. Replicants? Clones? You shake that thought out of your mind. Tables of delicious luxury piled high next to seasonally appropriate containers overflowing with amazing prizes. There’s even a car ( Tesla Model S ) they’re giving away for whatever reason in the middle of it all.

But before you can get to any of that, there are rows and rows of slot machines. There are hundreds of people slaving away at the slot machines, because the only way to get anything at all is to play their games. So you join the withered, tortured souls and play. For hours and hours you are sat in front of your slot machine, and then, then you win. You win food! Oh, you are so hungry. You’ve been sat, pulling a stupid lever, staring at stupid rows of stupid symbols for hours. You’re so hungry. They escort you to the table with all the delectable delights, and as you reach for the amazing looking eclair, they slap your hand away. Nono, that’s not for you. Or maybe it is. There’s another slot machine to play. So you pull that stupid lever one last time. Mouse with a squiggly tail. Two red balloons. Renault F1 race car. Leonardo diCaprio. What the @$!# does this all even mean?! Your server knows. He walks behind table, and a moment later, brings you your food. It is balut. In futile rage, you scream at your server, “FFUUUCCCCCKKK YYYOOOOOUUUUU!!!” The server looks at you, shrugs, turns around and wordlessly walks away.

You wish you had joined your friend, who ran out of spins two hours ago, and decided to go to McDonald’s ( which is a metaphor for a competing game ending in “erwatch” ) instead of wasting more time.

Somewhere, a man in a suit clinks a cup of champagne with another man in a suit. “Another perfect party.”

But… I wasn’t hungry, i just wanted to get in the Pool and show off my New Fancy Swimming Trunks :wink:

(OwynTyler) #26

@Meerkats said:
He walks behind table, and a moment later, brings you your food. It is balut. In futile rage, you scream at your server, “FFUUUCCCCCKKK YYYOOOOOUUUUU!!!” The server looks at you, shrugs, turns around and wordlessly walks away.

and then some other slot-player angrily yells at you for not liking the balut - “IT’S FREE, DUDE IT’S FREE, HOW CAN YOU BE NOT HAPPY WITH IT!?!?!?!?!?!”

(brian770) #27

i must be lucky, cause i had 7 boosters and just got a nader “hex” card, and the very next match while at the default 1% i got a arty "hex"card.

(brian770) #28

but i wish once you got a “special” ranked season 3 card you could NOT get it again, i have 3 of the same vasilys of the same card… :’( kind of makes me not want to chance another one. after you get oa card it should be removed from your rotation.

(SteelMailbox) #29

I’d like to see someone invent a method that will involve either no or neglect able RNG amount and will earn the devs of this game this month’s rent.

Seriously though,

  1. It’s just skins, now sure we all want the shiniest skin on the market but we can’t be as frustrated when we don’t get one if it as long as it doesn’t have any sort of statistical boost or something (and no I am not suggesting to change this at any way). The only cards that actually matter are bronze but of course they aren’t rare so people want to go higher, which is totally fine but again we cannot criticize it if the thing we want to get to either boost our ego or just have something aesthetically pleasing.
  2. Your comparison to OW is flawed. OW is a fully priced game for 40$-60$ depending on what edition you buy which makes it so that every player of the millions that have purchased this game actually gave a somewhat considerable amount of their money to the devs, which is not so in a F2P title, in which a player can have 2,000 hours in a game and still not spend a single coin. Sure however that if you did waste money there should be either a guaranteed way to earn what you want or at the very least a decent way that will not make you feel like you just went to a casino in LA where the house always wins. However as it stands there is a way to get an event card guaranteed if you spend your money, if you wanna go that route (either to support the devs or you can afford it and don’t really care or what not).

Overall I say that I cannot complain about how hard it is to get something for free but if I spend my hard earned cash I do have the right.

(Nail) #30

it’s like a fine imported Himalayan Red rock salt…

the taste is exquisite

:’(

(BazBling) #31

@Nail said:
it’s like a fine imported Himalayan Red rock salt…

the taste is exquisite

:’(

(Xenithos) #32

If they just increased the rates of hexxad skins in the cases, or maybe even offered one for 5000 fragments as a different eye color it would be cool… You’d get a lot less grief for something a lot more easier to see and hope for than 1% in every stupid arena.

Sad to say though, have a friend who’s already gotten 5 hexxad cases from drops, and he’s buying the boosters… It’s like, say what? Only reason to buy boosters, is it slowly becomes more and more guaranteed, IF you get it there. To be a guaranteed skin, instead of a chance.

(ThunderZsolt) #33

@Xenithos said:
Sad to say though, have a friend who’s already gotten 5 hexxad cases from drops, and he’s buying the boosters… It’s like, say what? Only reason to buy boosters, is it slowly becomes more and more guaranteed, IF you get it there. To be a guaranteed skin, instead of a chance.

And if you are unlucky enough, you don’t get an event case even if you have 100% booster, because it still requires a regular case to drop…

I think SD went a bit too far with the RNG this time

(CO_Grit) #34

I think you should be able to get Hexads from missions like in RiV and the option to buy 1% cases with credits, but other than that I see no issue with the update. You shouldn’t treat this event like a job. You’re playing a video game. Enjoy yourself. That’s the important thing.

(GabebutGood) #35

I understand the argument of buying and I support the idea of buying things for a game that is F2P, however when your spending I think its 34.99 USD for the 2 guarantee hex cases and like 20 elite cases? thats alot of money for not being able to decide what 2 merc you’re getting for that 34.99 USD. Now mind you you also get a 10% chance with each elite case and you get 20 I believe? which is kinda bad, you in theory would need to open at least 10 to get a hex card (RNG willing) so effectively you you’re buying 2 hex cards with a high chance at a third. Now, I really like dirty bomb, but I dont like living in a alley. My question is why wouldnt they sell you just the hex box for like 5$ for 1 or 2 boxes keeping with the merc RNG, so you would get into this false state of hope? Instead of tacking on 20 crates that dont get me what I want and make the package really unappealing.

My point is if I spend alot of money, why dont I get what I want. You cant get it both ways SD your gonna make people pissed.

(Nail) #36

“My point is if I spend alot of money, why dont I get what I want”

not how it works, and it would make me sad
:’(

(GabebutGood) #37

@Nail said:
“My point is if I spend alot of money, why dont I get what I want”

not how it works, and it would make me sad
:’(

paying 34 dollars for in game items that have a one time cost to produce (which don’t get me wrong that stuff can get expensive) that are random to the highest degree is HIGHLY discouraging to be purchased, my side was if I pay alot of money for something I should have a great deal of influenced, Iam not asking to pick which loadout, I was suggesting you at least pick which merc you would like, for example the recent obsidian cards that were available had locked loadout and specific merc for 10-12 dollars (which is quite alot, in my opinion) That an ok-ish price for a specific loadout, but paying 34 dollars for 2 cases that I really care about and not the other 20 cases I did not want is ridicules. (however I could be the only person that doesn’t want the 20 elite cases, however this is unlikely due) “most” of time I see people talk about they get a card in which they will never use just because of the merc, NOT the loadout. So offering a expensive bundle worth 34.99 for 2 cases I really only care about that are roughly worth 17.50 and have no influence at all is bad business because of the fact that it would not be bought in the same frequency as something cheaper and more direct, the point of a business is to make money, but in the gaming industry a good medium of making money and fairness to the play player base is important and luckily for now, has been struck in DB. My post at the end was oversimplifying what I tried to state, that it would be good for the game’s health if they would find a medium between fair priced and RNG.

(M4st0d0n) #38

With the event people farmed the pub servers hard and it made the game totally stupid to play. Having total randomness to cope with is enough, now teams are deliberately refusing to deliver and cook the game… @stayfreshshoe

(CO_Grit) #39

@M4st0d0n said:
With the event people farmed the pub servers hard and it made the game totally stupid to play. Having total randomness to cope with is enough, now teams are deliberately refusing to deliver and cook the game… @stayfreshshoe

What do you mean? How are people farming servers? Idling?

(GatoCommodore) #40

@CO_Grit said:

@M4st0d0n said:
With the event people farmed the pub servers hard and it made the game totally stupid to play. Having total randomness to cope with is enough, now teams are deliberately refusing to deliver and cook the game…

What do you mean? How are people farming servers? Idling?

worse, not even trying to win the match
im also seeing more and more people idling but they shoot and move every 15 sec to avoid getting kicked and threaten people if they kicked him