PUBG has publish odds for their loot box system on their test server.
Is that the one where one of the particularly rare items will take the average player 80 years to get? Something to do with incredibly long odds combined with a restriction on how many boxes you can open I understand.
And here I am playing TF2, where pretty much everyone has a frying pan...
'But to be logical is not to be right', and 'nothing' on God's earth could ever 'make it' right!'
Judge Dan Haywood
'As l speak now, the words are forming in my head.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
'But to be logical is not to be right', and 'nothing' on God's earth could ever 'make it' right!'
Judge Dan Haywood
'As l speak now, the words are forming in my head.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
Even if regulations are imposed, whether by governments or by corporations like Apple, Sony, and Microsoft, they might turn out to be toothless, at least initially. There will no doubt be some game developers who comply with the letter of the law, but not the spirit. It will probably take some time to make the rules specific enough and to iron out the loop holes. (That said, I personally believe they should publish the odds.)
China began enforcing similar rules for online game operators in May of this year. At that time, when popular game makers like Blizzard complied, they showed how vaguely written rules about loot-box odds can be taken advantage of to leave players in the dark. In Blizzard's case, the company simply announced that each of its loot boxes is guaranteed to contain one "rare"-class item, while players have a 1-in-5.5 chance to earn "epic"-class items or a 1-in-13.5 chance to earn "legendary"-class items.
Heh.
So basically STO could start including two different "tier 6" ship options, make one total garbage (or even a slightly above average shuttle) but still tier 6, and list the odds of winning a tier 6 ship at 1:10, even though 99 out of 100 tier 6 ships 9or more) would be the garbage one.
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PUBG has publish odds for their loot box system on their test server.
Is that the one where one of the particularly rare items will take the average player 80 years to get? Something to do with incredibly long odds combined with a restriction on how many boxes you can open I understand.
And here I am playing TF2, where pretty much everyone has a frying pan...
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
Heh.
So basically STO could start including two different "tier 6" ship options, make one total garbage (or even a slightly above average shuttle) but still tier 6, and list the odds of winning a tier 6 ship at 1:10, even though 99 out of 100 tier 6 ships 9or more) would be the garbage one.
And it would all be perfectly legal.