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mrdanthedeadman
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Making this event solely reliant on the one egg each player gets and trading said eggs to complete makes the event completely undoable. Seriously should have made the eggs obtainable through other sources. Everyone is going to be selling them and probably no one will complete it.
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And supposedly this is forbidden...
Hypocrisis level hard, lol.
Realistically, most players won't end up selling theirs, if they even realize it's available to claim in the first place. My guess is you'll see less than 3% of the player-base complete the set.
A truly horrendous decision.
I have to start over after 8 years of playing.
Those poorer players are more likely to spend the money than those with hundreds of millions of AD, thereby slowly sucking it out of the game.
If so it's unlikely to have the impact they want.
It's more likely to cause bad feeling because offering a "collectable" but you can only get one, then that creates a funnel of content where most players are essentially out of the game in round one.
I'm HOPING these eggs will be available elsewhere, allowing people to actually enjoy the GAME process of attempting to complete a collection outside of being really rich.
Give us a pair of Magic Spectacles that work like "Pokemon Go"and we have to go find the things... SOMETHING better than "Errr... well... you need to be very rich and buy them..."
Having a player based CCG type system is a good idea, but as usual its actual implementation and game play impact looks like it has been of little importance
With this and the Preview now giving a "Refine One, Get Ninety Nine FREE" option to new MYTHIC Enchants, anyone who dares say that the game is only aimed at new players needs to have a word with themselves.
Imagine if you manage to buy 12 or 13, but fall short of the full set, with it looking like an "All or Nothing" who is going to want to risk that?
The most likely scenario is that those really rich characters will focus on one type of egg and buy up as many of those as they can, keeping their availability low.
This will drive their price through the roof... which will either force people to spend far more, (making that already super rich hoarder even richer) or make the ultimate reward be incredibly Rare with only a few people getting hold of them.
But the thing that rewards are unknown is something that scares most of the people. No matter if the 15 eggs cost 15 millions or 20, the question is that we dont know if the rewards are worth it.
This eggs should drop in dungeons
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The initial supply is already artificially limited. Cryptic forced the default price high. Players can (and likely will) push the prices even higher through hoarding and additional artificial scarcity, but make no mistake about Cryptic's role in the situation.
It is kind of a Robin Hood event, transferring AD from the not-so-poor to the poor, which is a good thing.
And there is a lot of suspense and wild guessing.
What do we get when we open the eggs?
Is it worth it spending millions of AD to get a mythic egg?
Is it worth it paying 100k's for a single egg?
Nice, thought-provoking, risk-taking and wealth redistributing event shaking people out of their daily complacent routine.
Pure genius
Since most people won't get a mythic egg I think it is obvious that the reward from it will not be anything that will not be obtainable by other means. My guess is that the eggs will drop the new enchantments.
The haves will have them, the have nots will watch.
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A "fair" system would distribute the eggs completely at random (with an even distribution, obviously, to maximize the number of full sets in circulation.) However, that just means that a "poor" could get the egg worth the least, and a "rich" could get the most expensive one. It's a total crapshoot, and there is no way to design an event like this so that wealth is "redistributed" fairly without implementing an unfair lottery.
But hey, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe the "poors" get more mythics and the "rich" get more bottom tier. Who knows? My data point is that my net worth is only about 2M AD, and I got a legendary (which proves nothing, just saying that's my data point.)
I'm looking forward to seeing someone(s) data mine the event and reveal what Cryptic's true intentions were. Be good for a laugh.
What a really odd thing to try and do - 14 accounts get nothing, 1 account gets something. I mean really?
Yeah on one hand I am like "wow this is genius at work" on the other " who could have conceived of a plan so badly?"
I keep thinking of the tale of The Emperors New Clothes is this an event anyone is actually going to do?
As in the only "event" part is having the cahunas to spend so much AD on the Auction House... [is that even an event?]
So many questions.
*grabs some popcorn*
You're mischaracterizing what this is doing.
One rich person gives millions to over a dozen poor people, and in return gets a set of items that (better be) worth millions.
The game imbalance only gets worse, because none of those poor people have been improved far beyond their starting place, while the fabulously wealthy player just got something even more superpowered...and remains fabulously wealthy in all likelihood.
And I have changed my guess at what the eggs contain.. I now think they will contain motes to do upgrades with. Giving out mythic or legendary enchants probably is way too much. The eggs WERE free, after all.
Anyways I think this is a fun event
And I will be holding on to mine - not selling. I might regret it