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1. How did you find about Vindictus? - Was browsing mmo sites and saw a trailer for the KR closed beta version and fell in love instantly
2. How long have you been playing? - Since the very first closed beta so going on 7+ years now? (I miss you my permanent luck hair)
3. Who was your first character? - Was and always will be my beloved Fiona LumixGuard
4. What would you consider your greatest achievement? - Making friends online and joining my first in-game guild, since I used to game alone a lot in these MMOs/online ARPGs (I miss you Zoot, Crim, Morg, White, An, Bey, Aff, Sans, Rhino, Dins and the rest of my amazing skype guildies. Hope all is going well !)
5. Favorite color scheme to use on equipment? - Honestly it fluctuates a lot depending on new gear/avatar attire but I usually have some form of white in there. Currently its white and turquoise on my gear and orange hair for my Fiona.
6. Favorite dungeon? - Gotta say the first Glas raid even if I don't play it anymore. Loved being on spear duty and that BGM....*drools*
So its been a while since I took statistics but I just wanna throw out there that the 4% number they gave doesn't mean that there's suppose to be a 4/100 chance that we will get an Iset pet, or a nice outfitter item, it means that there is a 4/100 chance you will get a "rare" item. They listed that there were 11 items that fall under the "rare" status. So to get 1 specific "rare" item the probability of getting it is (4/100) * (1/11) which would be 0.00363 or 0.36% chance to get that item. (Somebody please check me heavily on that calculation because it has been awhile haha).
From this standpoint I can understand what @RobertLivia is saying since the probability of getting rare items in this game is going to definitely be stacked against us because frankly this is a business and they are more than likely focused on making a profit (as they should be they are a business after all). As for @Deprived argument, there are a lot of valid points in his/her argument as well since that listed calculation I made above would only be accurate if they did consider all of those "rare" items under an equal probability. Could they change the rates of the sought after items to be less than 1/11? That is definitely possible and if they do that is definitely something that should be addressed through litigation because they are in fact lying about those rates and more than likely are violating some false advertising laws (Again somebody check me on this I am definitely not a lawyer haha). However at the moment it doesn't seem like it because I do feel like I get those "rare" items at a 4/100 chance its just usually 5k or 10k ap caps and the occasional outfit or pet.
Also that article at the beginning, I believe it would be important to point out that the point of the litigation was not that Nexon was lying about their item rates, but more that they did not point them out at all. I believe this is an important distinction because in KR I believe they are legally bound to posting their drop rates for gacha items which was a law passed a couple years ago. Again I am no expert on this but this does not say whether or not Nexon lied about their drop rates but rather that they did not follow that country's laws.
Finally I'll say that it is all good and everything to hold a company accountable for their unethical practices, but these gacha box rates should not be the main focus of our concerns. Honestly whether Nexon wants to label gachas like this or not, they are a form of monetized gambling and just like with any form of monetized gambling they are stacked against us. So to anyone believing that walking into this they should be winning anything is flawed from the beginning.
What we really should be focused on is the idea that game companies are heading towards a preference of gacha boxes rather than focusing on the core mechanics of the game itself, improving it and giving the gamer a better experience. Because if we only focus on the crappy gacha drop rates, we are definitely forgoing the fact that these gacha boxes are cheap and crappy way to hide the lack of content update and overall game progression.
Is that through NX credit? If you buy the karma koin codes there should be no caps for the amount of codes you redeem only the cap the vendor places on purchasing the code.
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