Remove Total Shuffle From the Black Friday Applicator Pool

Remove Total Shuffle From the Black Friday Applicator Pool
Posted 2021-11-26 15:09:05 #569685 OR make it so you can't get the same app twice in a row across multiple purchases. Why? Quite a few reasons, including: 1. All the other items are base applicators. 2. All the other items are rarer and worth significantly more. 3. The other special items (including the decor/backgrounds, the grove items, and other applicators) can be swapped for similar items in their respective tiers, the shuffle is not even worth it's grove value if listed on the TC. 4. It is obtainable from the grove all year round, the other applicators are not. 5. It feels like the booby/consolation prize of the applicator tier, encouraging additional gambling at $50 a try. I'm okay with the randomness/gambling of the other items because of point 3. 6. It just really sucks to get a total shuffle, and know that even if you could afford to try again and again you might get nothing but shuffles. Downsides: Potentially less money for the devs, but the people that can afford to drop hundreds of dollars on the game and want to aren't going to stop. In fact, it can even discourage additional purchases (see point 6). Potentially hard to implement not getting the same app twice in a row across multiple purchases, but if it's coded to not give the same two apps for the largest purchase, I'm sure it could be done. Alternatively it could be done manually by a staff member (Only if the player asks). I'll admit that this is a suggestion made for selfish reasons, because this GC and it's bonuses were my birthday gift to myself. I was too hyped about the bases to realise the total shuffle was lumped in with it. It doesn't feel like I got my money's worth and just made me sad. The less selfish, but still personal reason, is that I also don't like the way it encourages gambling. Randomness is fine if every outcome is roughly equal, but this item is so obviously low value it feels predatory and icky to me.	VagueShapes #828

Posted 2021-11-26 15:09:05

#569685

OR make it so you can't get the same app twice in a row across multiple purchases.

Why? Quite a few reasons, including:
1. All the other items are base applicators.
2. All the other items are rarer and worth significantly more.
3. The other special items (including the decor/backgrounds, the grove items, and other applicators) can be swapped for similar items in their respective tiers, the shuffle is not even worth it's grove value if listed on the TC.
4. It is obtainable from the grove all year round, the other applicators are not.
5. It feels like the booby/consolation prize of the applicator tier, encouraging additional gambling at $50 a try. I'm okay with the randomness/gambling of the other items because of point 3.
6. It just really sucks to get a total shuffle, and know that even if you could afford to try again and again you might get nothing but shuffles.

Downsides:
Potentially less money for the devs, but the people that can afford to drop hundreds of dollars on the game and want to aren't going to stop. In fact, it can even discourage additional purchases (see point 6).
Potentially hard to implement not getting the same app twice in a row across multiple purchases, but if it's coded to not give the same two apps for the largest purchase, I'm sure it could be done. Alternatively it could be done manually by a staff member (Only if the player asks).

I'll admit that this is a suggestion made for selfish reasons, because this GC and it's bonuses were my birthday gift to myself. I was too hyped about the bases to realise the total shuffle was lumped in with it. It doesn't feel like I got my money's worth and just made me sad.
The less selfish, but still personal reason, is that I also don't like the way it encourages gambling. Randomness is fine if every outcome is roughly equal, but this item is so obviously low value it feels predatory and icky to me.

VagueShapes
#828

Posted 2021-11-26 17:06:37 (edited)

#569779

Support. I did notice the RMA in the news and had the same thought process as your points listed. I did not have any intention in spending any money regardless but if I did have money/was interested in this Black Friday event I wouldn't "gamble" my money specifically because the RMA is included.

QueenOfFrowns
#3910

Remove Total Shuffle From the Black Friday Applicator Pool

OR make it so you can't get the same app twice in a row across multiple purchases.

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