Hard pity for shiny stickers

[noble blade]

Card rigging is nothing new and has been a hindrance to progress since albums have come out. I can live with rigged cards existing, but what I cannot accept is the fact that these cards are practically impossible to get... most of the time you have to gamble a few thousand gems in the dvd, and if you don't have enough, then you just waste all of it for nothing. A solution to fix this would be adding a pity system of sorts. Set a hard limit to the number of dupes you can obtain, such as 3 - 4, before getting a guaranteed card.

[ocean elm]

that will be very effective. there should be a system that increases the chance of getting new cards, so that every time we get a dupe the chance of getting new cards also increase

[elfin mountain]

Do you think a company as greedy as Zynga is gonna let them.

[undone dune]

I think you mean Take Two Interactive (the company behind GTA) since that's the parent company to my knowledge, while Zynga/SP is just the subsidiary.

[elfin mountain]

TakeTwo is hands off with Zynga
All the Album crap and battlepasses is Zynga's doing

[undone dune]

From what I understand, the incessant pressure of more and more comes from the top, or from Take Two.

I don't know the inner workings of each company so I will stop here and refrain from further comments or speculation.
You may be right or I may be right, either way, the greed is in the game.

[undone dune]

To be honest, even if they enforce a pity system, assume that they will always give it at the highest number (let's say 3).
If they do that for all 4 Shiny 5 Star cards, that'd be 4x3= 12 Shiny 5 Star Cards required to be opened. I don't think that F2P get that many Shinies in total through the whole season.

I'd recommend a lower number like 2 in the pity system (at least for Shiny 5 Stars and 4 Stars).

[noble blade]

f2ps can get a good amount of 5 shinys if ur lucky id say maybe 6 - 8 through the whole season

[undone dune]

Yeah, the current Rigged system does not guarantee anything even if you get 12 Shiny 5 Star Cards, as I have seen through experience.

That's why I mentioned that even if they introduced the pity system, I assumed it to be the worst of the bunch with a guarantee only at the highest number (say 3), meaning you'd need to get at least 12 Shiny 5 Star Packs to get the 4 required stickers completed.

I support the idea of it as it would certainly be better than the current Rigged system, but I think it would still be difficult for F2P to complete since Shiny 5 Star Packs are not that many, maybe 12 at most if you complete everything including the Races.

[craggy copper]

They restricted them; I opened up to 8 shiny 5-star cards, all duplicates of the same card, including the newest card from round 19 of the Hero Race. The best thing to do is quit this game.

[undone dune]

💰

[humble bloom]

Stickers rigging has got to stop. It is getting very frustrating for them to do it for every sticker collection

[humble bloom]

Something is better than nothing. Where we are blocked because of rigged stickers

[abstract cosmos]

Yea.. I opened 7 packs of 5 shiny on the last day, but I got all duplicates on the previous one. I think some cards are meant to be rigged for a certain % of players so that they can buy the last card. It's sad that I waste a lot of gems on DVDs every season, like 2k at least, and still don't get it. I've just completed one album so far. I'm quitting after this season tho.. I'm tired lol

[undone dune]

I said what I said because we do not trust them to actually make it a fair pity system if they ever introduce it, hence just a different version of rigging.
Gotta get them to stop rigging everything and get better mechanics.

[undone dune]

Yeah, I agree with that, certain Stickers may be locked permanently for certain players unless they specifically spend the 3,300 gems on DVD or buy the sticker with real money.
I believe that I have experienced both sides where just one more sticker pack was needed, and where it was locked no matter what I did.

I have to actively stop myself from burning any gems in DVD since it is just a scam, it's rigged gambling (as far as I understand it).

Good luck with retirement and doing better things.

[abstract cosmos]

In my opinion, it's based on the player pool system... They divide players into certain groups where they rig different cards for different groups of players. If u notice, you can see that some % players are missing the same cards as u, while some get them early but they might be missing another card instead probably which you already have. And accordingly, a certain % of people (let's say group A according to the player pool) complete the collection a week before the event ends, and some % of players (let's say group B of the player pool) get to complete the album on the last day of the season. Similarly, there are % of people (let's say group C of the player pool) who never get to complete the album because the company wants them to pay for it.. that's the reason it doesn't matter if you're f2p or p2W.. If you are in the player pool, you'll complete the album anyhow.. if not then you might open hundreds of packs, it will not matter. And ig it's intentional because there would be too much circulation of orbs if everyone completes it. So long story short.. the album is never meant to be completed by every player.

[abstract cosmos]

Ha ha thanks! I'm prolly better off playing Angry Birds lol

[undone dune]

I remember someone doing statistical analysis which showed these different cards getting rigged for different people.
We're all tired of telling them to fix it or replace it with a fair system, but they do not seem to care as long as people keep paying, so. I guess they'll stay this way until the players change and stop paying.

[undone dune]

Idk if Angry Birds still exists after all these years, but hey, whatever you enjoy, good luck with that.

[jaunty crystal]

Really annoying rigging 5s shiny pack and makes them
So hard to obtain

[humble bloom]

@glass glacier what u got to say to this. No reply until this gets unrigged till the last week??

[noble blade]

gee that looks rough

[river marsh]

My question where did u get so many 5* shiny I only have one 🥀

[jaunty crystal]

Pass i got both divinr pass
And from random shiny 3 times
And saved some trick 👀