Do you guys think we should have a petition or some kind of movement to put pressure on 2K to reveal to reveal pack odds? I know, in China, last year, there was a law passed that game developers have to be transparent about pull rates in loot box information. I think that it's necessary at this point because it almost feels like these pack odds are adjusted on the fly or maybe geared towards some hidden system that favors players who don't purchase packs. As someone who has spent thousands playing MyTeam over the last few yeas, I have noticed a few things.
1. 2K 100% without a doubt in my mind adjusts the pull rates of certain packs. Beasts was by far what I spent the most money this year because I wanted that Hakeem without selling anything. I spent a minimum $400 and never even pulled an amethyst. That's 8 boxes with guaranteed toppers. Not including any singles I bought. That's absurd. I get that you have to prevent the game from being "Pay to win" but this isn't the way. You prevent pay to win by making sure the game isn't skewed toward players with more disposable income, not by making it cost a little more than what most can spend.
2. There seems to be a system in place that's designed to suck people into MyTeam when they aren't paying money. I've seen both myself and other players be offered special VC discounts which is not only unfair to players who play the game all the time and don't get these offers but as well as dishonest to players who are being offered the deal as a way to lure them in as well as seemingly higher odds for people who don't pull as much. Obviously I don't have an inside look at to how Chris Smoove works, maybe he funneled a small fortune into his return to MyTeam but his pull rates on Beast packs were insane. He pulled at least 5 diamonds. I think he got Dr. J 3 times. I couldn't even pull an Amethyst!
3. Discounted VC also seems to provide lower pull rates. When that HUGE VC was going on a lot of YouTubers loaded up into the millions. I myself bought 1.3M. It was the weekend before a new theme was set to drop the following Tuesday and the pack odds were atrocious. I didn't pull anything and it was the first time I "gave up" MyTeam. Of course I came back and when Gamestop had a similar sale on VC when the Beast Packs were out, the same thing happened to me. Zip, zero, zilch.
In general 2K is a pretty shadowy group in regards to this game. We don't have real badge information. We still don't know what intangibles are. Something as fundamental as jumpshots can be patched with no warning and now my latest problem. Pulling packs is gambling. You're putting money into a random situation with hopes that you'll have the results you want. Every other gambling system is regulated so that you know the odds. You know how many sides are on a pair of dice, how many landing spots are on a roulette table, how many cards their are in a deck. Yet 2K, and many other games that feature microtransactions have no regulations in this regard. I think we need to push to have this is not just 2K but all games. I think a lot less people would throw money at this game if it told them they had a 3% chance at pulling a diamond.
1. 2K 100% without a doubt in my mind adjusts the pull rates of certain packs. Beasts was by far what I spent the most money this year because I wanted that Hakeem without selling anything. I spent a minimum $400 and never even pulled an amethyst. That's 8 boxes with guaranteed toppers. Not including any singles I bought. That's absurd. I get that you have to prevent the game from being "Pay to win" but this isn't the way. You prevent pay to win by making sure the game isn't skewed toward players with more disposable income, not by making it cost a little more than what most can spend.
2. There seems to be a system in place that's designed to suck people into MyTeam when they aren't paying money. I've seen both myself and other players be offered special VC discounts which is not only unfair to players who play the game all the time and don't get these offers but as well as dishonest to players who are being offered the deal as a way to lure them in as well as seemingly higher odds for people who don't pull as much. Obviously I don't have an inside look at to how Chris Smoove works, maybe he funneled a small fortune into his return to MyTeam but his pull rates on Beast packs were insane. He pulled at least 5 diamonds. I think he got Dr. J 3 times. I couldn't even pull an Amethyst!
3. Discounted VC also seems to provide lower pull rates. When that HUGE VC was going on a lot of YouTubers loaded up into the millions. I myself bought 1.3M. It was the weekend before a new theme was set to drop the following Tuesday and the pack odds were atrocious. I didn't pull anything and it was the first time I "gave up" MyTeam. Of course I came back and when Gamestop had a similar sale on VC when the Beast Packs were out, the same thing happened to me. Zip, zero, zilch.
In general 2K is a pretty shadowy group in regards to this game. We don't have real badge information. We still don't know what intangibles are. Something as fundamental as jumpshots can be patched with no warning and now my latest problem. Pulling packs is gambling. You're putting money into a random situation with hopes that you'll have the results you want. Every other gambling system is regulated so that you know the odds. You know how many sides are on a pair of dice, how many landing spots are on a roulette table, how many cards their are in a deck. Yet 2K, and many other games that feature microtransactions have no regulations in this regard. I think we need to push to have this is not just 2K but all games. I think a lot less people would throw money at this game if it told them they had a 3% chance at pulling a diamond.
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