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The game is fun - but let's talk about predatory gambling in games. This concerns the Constellation Axe Skin, I wish I could post screenshots, but you can find all this information in game yourself. The splash page for the sword proudly presents "50 DRAWS FOR A GUARANTEED ULTIMATE REWARD" notice how that doesn't say sword. Next to the name there is a icon labeled details click that for the next information. Now, you get a pity count this is your 50 rolls to guarantee, and in bright shiny letters below you are shown the probabilities of 1% for an Ultimate, 5% for Superb, 47.5% for Rare, and 46.5% for Common. This may lead you to believe a 1% chance out of every pull to be the sword, and a guaranteed sword at 50 pulls. but OH MAN are you wrong. In the tiny text above the probability you will find there is actually (wish I could capitalize numbers) A 0.01% CHANCE for THE SWORD in every pull and a 0.99% Chance of an Ultimate REWARD. So I did more digging, turns out there are two ULTIMATE REWARDS. The Sword and 100 Ultimate MATERIAL. So now you are probably saying... wtf is ultimate material. well tucked under another tab is a redeem shop for this material, and lo and behold our sword is there for.......... 1000 MATERIAL. If you have stuck around this long great it's time for some math to reveal how predatory this actually gets. We are going to go with the theory that your luck is absolutely terrible and we will exclude all free cans. So you now must buy 500 cans (50 for a guaranteed ultimate 99% chance of 100 material X 10) Now we have two options to buy, we can buy roughly the exact amount of coins for 50 cans (8300 coins). $80 will get you 8460 coins ($60 + $20). or we can go the clearly smarter option of $100 for 10800 coins. Now I rounded these numbers out for ease but if you want to do the exact math you can but here we go math time. We need in the worst situation 83,000 coins to get 500 cans yes 83 thousand. now we buy ten of the $80 options for a total of 84,460 coins BOOM YAY we have our sword for 800 US DOLLARS. But wait a minute snowy I am a big spender and want to buy this sword in the least amount of purchases possible so let me buy the $100 version. GREAT! Well lets do that. FOUR $100 packs will net you 43,200 coins (5 packs of 50 cans) buy 4 get one free right, so how many to reach the ability to buy the sword???? YEP THAT'S RIGHT 8 total, for 800 US DOLLARS. but wait you have a remaining 3,400 coins,,, to buy whatever tf you managed to not pull in your remaining 495 non ultimate cans. I understand your luck may be better, you may get extra coins that will save you maybe 50 bucks + 50 bucks worth of free cans. but overall to GUARANTEE that sword, with no lucky ultimate pulls on non guaranteed cans. it's $800 for a weapon on a screen that very loudly screams 50 CANS FOR GUARANTEED ULTIMATE while only showing the one ultimate sword. It's misleading and extremely predatory........... base game is fun though. now do I send a thumbs up or a thumbs down? Dunno but I am sure as hell buying 50 cans!Show moreShow less
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