Warning - Elite pack with GRN cards differ in content

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Mburn7 said:

The reason it is possible t9o assume shady behavior over an accident is Oktagon's tendency to make changes without communicating them to us.  Usually it is just changes to how the AI works, but there have been other things done as well without any acknowledgement in the patch notes.  Stuff like changing drop rates in packs, or removing masterpieces from Ixalan packs (twice), increasing the amount of time between when a planeswalker is offered for cash and for crystals, changing the way certain cards function (Ambuscade now deals damage equal to the base power of the creature instead of its actual power, this was confirmed as intentional when reported as a bug), and of course the previously mentioned Slaughter Pack incident.

One undisclosed app change is understandable as an error.  A dozen?  Now it feels like its on purpose.

Yeah and its taking a lot out of me to try to be optimistic.. 

Brigby

Hi Everyone. We sincerely apologize for the confusion arising from this occurrence. While it is true that the Elite Packs were technically displaying the correct contents, we understand that this deviation from the norm may have caused some disorientation among players.

We are still reviewing this situation in depth with the team, however I can confirm that we will be correcting this discrepancy in Elite Pack contents in the upcoming 3.1 build in early December. Thank you for understanding.

Thuran

Does this mean the missing cards will be added to the mythic+ pack?

A shame, makes it harder to get the cards you actually want in the EP, as the selection will become a lot wider, making it harder for everyone to acquire the cards they need.

Frankly, they should not add all the cards together into a massive pack which will require thousands of purps to get through, but instead keep the smaller sized mythic+ they have now, and simply create more, different, packs, to not dilluate the odds.

Feels like their solution is to screw us over harder.... You want divine visitation? Enjoy having to blow 4000 purps to get it, as opposed to, what 2800 to get current EP mythics? (Don't have the game at hand, but its 7 mythics now, right?)

Likewise, masterpieces will become A LOT harder to chase, if they simply jam megapacks at us, instead of keeping the current size and creating new additional packs instead.

stikxs

Wow, I never even noticed the 'view cards' on each pack, I had always just looked in the 'view cards' on the main pack banner. Will definitely have to be careful in the future.

Brigby

Thuran said:

Does this mean the missing cards will be added to the mythic+ pack?

-snip-

Not exactly. The GRN Rare+ Elite Pack will remain the same, however the Mythics and Masterpieces in the GRN Mythic+ Elite Pack will mirror the ones in the Rare+ Elite Pack.

Feden

Whelp, so much for it almost being a bait and switch; I was neutral until this last change too.  However, it needs to be the Mythic+ that stays the same.  Those are the packs people chase from and I'm probably not the only one who has already spent 3600+ jewels on the current one going after a specific card.

(I have 10 of the 12 cards in the current Mythic+ pack and will have 1 more shot at getting the card I want before the pack rotates out.  However, I only have 1 of the Mythics/MPs in the current Rare+ pack.  And that pack also has the MP I want.  So if I don't get lucky on my next pull, I could have to accumulate up to an additional 4400 jewels (i.e. 8400 total!) to get the card I want?!?)

Please tell me there's a refund plan in place or something for people impacted?  I've been playing every event, saving jewels for months, and to spend them all going for a card and have this happen is not a good feeling, to say the least.

Hopefully the situation is still being reviewed and this is a part of the solution.  Otherwise, changing the contents within the 3 rotations of Mythic+ packs will be much, much worse than just leaving it all as it is now.

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Brigby said:

Thuran said:

Does this mean the missing cards will be added to the mythic+ pack?

-snip-

Not exactly. The GRN Rare+ Elite Pack will remain the same, however the Mythics and Masterpieces in the GRN Mythic+ Elite Pack will mirror the ones in the Rare+ Elite Pack.

I just wanted to let you know. Aside from what was mentioned, i actually did like the possible concept of different cards in the 120 and 400 packs. Also the rotation seemed unique. However, if this method was to be employed the following must be addressed:

1. Movement of individual pack "view cards" button moved to a location NOT so close to the purchase button to reduce possible inadvertent purchases

2. Removal of the elite collection big banner "view cards" button (since pack contents will now differ but this would break the current structure of all vault set banners). 

However maintaining the past structure in which the 120 and 400 packs mirror each other would be the easiest solution. 

With that all said, although people may purchase the 120 packs (especially when a new set drops), i believe most will go for the 400 packs after a certain period of time. Therefore the real value of different cards in the 120 and 400 packs feels a little lost to me. 

Nalthazar

I am hopeful that the combination of them "reviewing the situation" and the recognition that it was unfairly misleading based on their changing it so quickly in the next patch that maybe we can get what we lost back. Fingers crossed!