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  • anditbeg1ns
    Pro
    • Nov 2015
    • 591

    #1

    A Request for CD: Guaranteed Wild Card Packs

    I will preface this by saying I fully understand this is a game of odds and luck, and to get best deck and remain competitive, you have to put in tons of hours or spend some money on credits. Since I started playing the game 2 months ago, I have played over 13,000 games and spent $100 on credits for this game, because I did find this game enjoyable, but the horrendous WC drop rate from extras packs is quickly making this game undesirable to me.

    Over a span of 6 days, I have opened 36 extras packs and managed to pull only 2 WC's, and overall, I am ~17/245 in opening extras pack. good for an underwhelming 7% success rate(it's also been 6,500 games since my last drafted WC, for what it's worth). While some people have luck in their favor and manage to get multiple WC's in one pack or 2 in 5 packs, which I am completely fine with, I do believe that there needs to be a limit to the number of packs you open until you score a wild card, just as there are number of board clears until a tier reset. There's nothing more frustrating than playing for the entire week to save up over 100K RP's to open some packs and all you have to show for are energies, weak ability cards, and 1 wild card if you are lucky. To pro my leg cards, I have spent over $50 of credits alone to buy star contracts, but those, too, are useless you have wild card.

    Suggestion: Offer a pack for guaranteed WC, price it high, and the pack contains a wild card alone, while retaining the current extras pack.

    I would think a WC pack for 50-60K RP would be fair as it is not giving out WC for free (it's the equivalent of $30 in credits or a week of game earnings for most people), but it also eliminates scenarios where some people cannot pull a WC to save their life. By keeping the current extras pack, you are also letting people play the odds game if they wish, and they would also have to open extras pack if they want to get specs upgrade.

    I think this is a fair suggestion to a frustrating issue that would make the game more that much enjoyable to both the free and paid players. Please take this into serious consideration and taking ideas for your next update.
  • hatemakerr
    Rookie
    • Mar 2014
    • 119

    #2
    Re: A Request for CD: Guaranteed Wild Card Packs

    I've said this on multiple threads:

    The drop rate from packs at the start of the game was really silly. Maybe around 40-60%. I thought they were so common I would only buy the pack, to get the wild, when I pulled an epic (trying to up my deck as fast as possible). People that I know that also started day 1 had up to 20 wild cards by spending very little. Because of the rarity, a good spec or foil epic was way harder to find than a wild.

    Then after maybe two weeks they reallyyyy lowered the drop rate. Just like being able to boost into another tier - I think they didn't intend for these things to occur and it's damage control on how to slow down the entire population from advancing in a week.

    I have a friend who recently started and, it's a struggle. I went from nothing to legendary ++ winning MVPs in maybe a month? Now, wild cards hardly drop for me and I'm only sitting on 8.

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    • qedd
      Rookie
      • Dec 2015
      • 14

      #3
      Re: A Request for CD: Guaranteed Wild Card Packs

      CD definitely lower the odds. I used to get 1 in 3-4 packs and now it is in 10-11.

      This is my first year playing this game, is it always like that with change on odds ? And whats the reason ? Is the reason worth to make users confused? Bad user experience.

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      • CedricFP
        MVP
        • Nov 2008
        • 1864

        #4
        Re: A Request for CD: Guaranteed Wild Card Packs

        Originally posted by qedd
        CD definitely lower the odds. I used to get 1 in 3-4 packs and now it is in 10-11.

        This is my first year playing this game, is it always like that with change on odds ? And whats the reason ? Is the reason worth to make users confused? Bad user experience.
        If you are looking for transparency, you won't find it in this game.

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        • Adam_19
          MVP
          • Apr 2015
          • 1414

          #5
          A Request for CD: Guaranteed Wild Card Packs

          Wild cards are supposed to be hard to get. They lowered drop rates because I'm pretty sure that was a mistake to begin with getting 1 in every 3 packs that's too easy. Sometimes I have good luck sometimes very bad luck that is the nature of this game and that won't ever really change. I mean one time I spent over 200k to get one wild card while other times I've got 2 in 1 pack. Of course I get frustrated when I spend a lot and don't get any but it's also really satisfying when I get two in a pack for example. You just need to accept that this game is pure luck in nearly every aspect and that will never change.


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          Last edited by Adam_19; 12-28-2015, 04:57 AM.
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          • anditbeg1ns
            Pro
            • Nov 2015
            • 591

            #6
            Re: A Request for CD: Guaranteed Wild Card Packs

            Originally posted by Adam_19
            Wild cards are supposed to be hard to get. They lowered drop rates because I'm pretty sure that was a mistake to begin with getting 1 in every 3 packs that's too easy. Sometimes I have good luck sometimes very bad luck that is the nature of this game and that won't ever really change. I mean one time I spent over 200k to get one wild card while other times I've got 2 in 1 pack. Of course I get frustrated when I spend a lot and don't get any but it's also really satisfying when I get two in a pack for example. You just need to accept that this game is pure luck in nearly every aspect and that will never change.


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            I don't ask for elimination of extras pack, you still need to buy extras pack to get spec upgrades, and wish to play the odds game to score an WC that way. But currently, with the odds of WC being so low in extras pack, there is no guarantee that you'll get an WC even if you spend 100k RP, which is what's happening to some people, and not to mention that there is no reset for drafting WC. This is a frustrating part of the game that does not make the game itself better, or more enjoyable for people, IMO. Having a guaranteed WC pack, even at a higher price, would at least reduce the unfavorability of randomness for many some people.


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            • JaysinSeason
              Banned
              • Oct 2014
              • 467

              #7
              A Request for CD: Guaranteed Wild Card Packs

              Guaranteed wild cards would kill the ah. Maybe having a guaranteed wild card after so many packs. Say after 20 packs of no wc you're next pack is guaranteed to have 1.


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              • lazypotato
                Rookie
                • Nov 2015
                • 56

                #8
                Re: A Request for CD: Guaranteed Wild Card Packs

                No way 50-60K RP for a guaranteed Wild Card Pack. Legs were going for much more than that initially and so will Star and PO cards. That price basically puts a cap on how expensive a single can be. What should be implemented is a reset system and perhaps spending 150-200K on extras packs is a good place to put it. Of course this doesn't mean that the reset should be reached on a regular basis, but it at least assures us that there is an end goal to grinding for extras packs.

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                • anditbeg1ns
                  Pro
                  • Nov 2015
                  • 591

                  #9
                  Re: A Request for CD: Guaranteed Wild Card Packs

                  Originally posted by JaysinSeason
                  Guaranteed wild cards would kill the ah. Maybe having a guaranteed wild card after so many packs. Say after 20 packs of no wc you're next pack is guaranteed to have 1.


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                  Just opened another 5 packs, and... Nada. That makes it 2 for last 41. I don't know what is happening to me.

                  Without any guaranteed packs or reset system, I could keep opening another 20 and it's still likely I won't get any WC. WC comes very easy for some people, but for a few others like myself, it just seems impossible to land one, so I am hoping CD could do something to even out the odds somehow.

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                  • anditbeg1ns
                    Pro
                    • Nov 2015
                    • 591

                    #10
                    Re: A Request for CD: Guaranteed Wild Card Packs

                    Originally posted by lazypotato
                    No way 50-60K RP for a guaranteed Wild Card Pack. Legs were going for much more than that initially and so will Star and PO cards. That price basically puts a cap on how expensive a single can be. What should be implemented is a reset system and perhaps spending 150-200K on extras packs is a good place to put it. Of course this doesn't mean that the reset should be reached on a regular basis, but it at least assures us that there is an end goal to grinding for extras packs.
                    Many people on here value a WC at 40-50K because that's what their spend rate is for one. Maybe 50-60k for guaranteed pack a bit low, but I definitely don't agree with 150-200K being the reset mark, it doesn't help level the playing field for the unlucky ones like I am suggesting, when there is a 100K spending difference on just ONE WC.

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