First off just want to say I love the boxes, and the possibility of getting great rewards. On that note holy is it ever difficult to pull a player. Yesterday I bought 6 Posey boxes and got 6 draft picks. In total I've must of spent over 40k in gold and havent pulled one after yet since 18 started lol. I am the only one with bad luck haha..I get it that it's a game of chance and that's what keeps bringing me back, and I'll keep buying them, but hopefully one day they will feel bad for me and let me get a good player hahah..best of luck to all espically me
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– The Great Houmy
– The Great Houmy
Personally, I’d never waste time or resources on those unless I find myself short on a fan reward where I know I’m getting a player through the event, not the box. They’re a bad bet and bad game theory. Even if you pull the headliner, you still have to spend a bunch of resources leveling them up to a playable level. So, I can’t really call shenanigans on those types of boxes. They’re billed as bad bets for, the outset.
Where I am calling shenanigans is on the other player boxes, especially the event-oriented boxes. Those boxes tend to offer 1 or 2 headliners who are primes with similar odds to the specific player name boxes. But, these boxes also offer a host of lower rated players. Generally, there’s a few 5 Star players boosted to 340 or 355 Max and a few regular 3.5/4 Star players.
According to the listed odds, if you buy one of these boxes, you’ll get a player of some sort roughly 70% of the time. Granted, you’ll probably get a lesser player who might have a lesser bonus value for the event and won’t be useful beyond the event. But, at least you’ll get a player.
In theory.
However, over the course of the last 3 weeks, I’ve opened 73 of these boxes. I’ve kept track simply because a few guys on my club were complaining they only ever got xp from their boxes. I had actually pulled a decent player on my only open that week, so I didn’t think anything of it.
Anyways, 73 player boxes over the last 3 weeks. 6 players. 49 xp rewards. 19 Prime xp rewards.
Of the 6 players, none was rated higher than 3.5 stars. In fact, this past weekend, I got the exact same 3.5 star player on back to back opens.
In my opinion, GLU isn’t reporting their odds accurately, which would violate their terms of service with Apple. If it was just a handful of boxes with those results, it might be a run of independent bad luck. But, according to their listed odds, if I open 73 boxes, I should expect to get roughly 50 players and 23 xp rewards, not 67 xp rewards and 6 players.
Shenanigans have been called.
I also know know a guy who has spent less then me on some of those weekends and pulled every single bonus player from a weekend box. 6 or 7 total, on more then one occasion. So believe me when I tell you I feel the pain of pulling crap over and over again but I find that sometimes you have bad stretches and sometimes you have good ones. I think in the last 2 weekend events we had at-least 4 or 5 guys each pull a super on the freebie gifts. It happens, odds dont always favor you. I do like the idea that someone mentioned before about a "Pity Timer". After you pull "x" amount of times you should be guaranteed a bonus player from that box. It suck when you pull 30 or 40 times and get nothing but XP and 3.5 stars from it.
– The Great Houmy
Clearly, I don’t mind games of chance as evidenced by my history of opening boxes after viewing the odds.
The shenanigans is called because it’s clear the odds are being manipulated.
I almost threw my phone against the wall.
– The Great Houmy
– The Great Houmy