Grenosh wrote: So I have been enjoying MPQ for about 3 months now and I have always been a huge Captain America fan IRL but I have been resistant to purchase the character packs because lets be honest... they are $$$. Anyhow I love Cap so I am buying it... funny enough April 1st I decided the Unstable ISO-8 event looked like a blast so why not get Cap to enjoy it... Well turns out I am the fool. I went to the store and dropped some cash and my coins summarily filled up...funny how you need to spend $50 to get enough Went to the add heroes and bought the 3X CHANCE! Steve Rogers Pack. Little did I know there was a little question mark box that actually explained the reality of 3X only being 14.8%. Is it me or is this another horrible grab at taking even more of my money? I mean every other 3800 coin pack I have purchased always had the featured hero guaranteed. I thought hey 3X chances! I'll probably snag two or three covers... hell yeah! No I got 5x 2* Storm, 4x 2* Black Widow, and hooray! 1x 3* Hulk Black cover which I already have maxed out. The questions I'd like to hear back from the community are: 1 - Is this another lowering of the bar for what we get for our money to test the pain point of the community? 2 - Did this happen to you? 3 - Does this silly little question mark equate to a sleazy high-speed fine print car commercial that seems too good to be true? 4 - Has this question mark shown up in the past or is this the first time? Sadly still no Cap , Grenosh
Saint Matthew wrote: Same as buying Magic the Gathering booster packs or anything that is based off of chance. When you win and win big its the best thing ever.
Dunkelgrau wrote: If you could just drop $$$ to get the signature hero for an event, and the TREMENDOUS advantage that comes with it, then the game would just be p2w, some might even say p2p. But now that the extraordinarily expensive cover pack only gives you a % chance at that TREMENDOUS advantage, clearly that's not p2w.
MikeHock wrote: And yes, this is an awful waste of Hero Points to only have a 15% chance to pull a Mr. Rogers cover, which is pretty bad. Not only that, but you have LESS THAN A 25% CHANCE TO SCORE A 3* COVER! Again, I wouldn't waste 3800 Hero Points on such awful percentages.
UncleSam wrote: Is it 15% per token? Those odds aren't too bad. On average you're getting more than one per 10pack pull, but if you are one of the unlucky ones that didn't get any then it's going to hurt. I'd still prefer the guarantee. Don't event tokens usually have an elevated chance of a 3* anyway?
mischiefmaker wrote: MikeHock wrote: And yes, this is an awful waste of Hero Points to only have a 15% chance to pull a Mr. Rogers cover, which is pretty bad. Not only that, but you have LESS THAN A 25% CHANCE TO SCORE A 3* COVER! Again, I wouldn't waste 3800 Hero Points on such awful percentages. That's per token, though. You get 10 tokens for your 3800 hero points, which means: Chance of pulling at least one 3* Captain America: 78.6% Chance of pulling at least one of any 3*: 93.5% I haven't done the math myself but I believe Phantron has, and calculated that you have a better chance of getting 2 or more of the featured hero under this setup than you did with the old "1 guaranteed" setup. Not very comforting if you happen to fall into the 21.4% that gets 0, obviously, but this isn't a sleazy cash-grab or anything.
MikeHock wrote: mischiefmaker wrote: MikeHock wrote: And yes, this is an awful waste of Hero Points to only have a 15% chance to pull a Mr. Rogers cover, which is pretty bad. Not only that, but you have LESS THAN A 25% CHANCE TO SCORE A 3* COVER! Again, I wouldn't waste 3800 Hero Points on such awful percentages. That's per token, though. You get 10 tokens for your 3800 hero points, which means: Chance of pulling at least one 3* Captain America: 78.6% Chance of pulling at least one of any 3*: 93.5% I haven't done the math myself but I believe Phantron has, and calculated that you have a better chance of getting 2 or more of the featured hero under this setup than you did with the old "1 guaranteed" setup. Not very comforting if you happen to fall into the 21.4% that gets 0, obviously, but this isn't a sleazy cash-grab or anything.
MikeHock wrote: I don't see how there is a 78.6% chance of pulling Mr Rogers in the 10 pack based on the percentages. Then again, I'm just speculating.
MikeHock wrote: Either way, this is still a waste of Hero Points or $$$. They used to offer a guaranteed "featured hero" in those 10 packs. I guess they did away with that to try and maximize their sales.