2014-03-09, 11:01 AM
MissingLink Wrote:Maybe there is more to this than just a marketing scheme.
I recall a lot of people in past threads saying how good black cubes were, but now it seems they are worse during supposed 2x miracle event than super cubes used to be without an event. Perhaps for the first month after they were introduced black cubes did have better 'introductory' rates, but sometime before this event the rates were cut by a factor of 4, so that even with the miracle event (assuming it even worked on black cubes) they still had worse rates than initially. There have been many times in the past when drop rates were lowered or something was 'accidently' broken a month or two after some new boss was introduced. This sounds like a similar trick.
It's possible they fu'cked up during a patch and overall ruined the the rates, I will agree. And it's also possible that they screwed up the event itself and forgot to activate it. Since that's happened before I won't say that it's impossible, it's clearly not.
However neither of these things are provable unless Nexon says it themselves, which they won't unless they intend to give compensation. Anything before that happens is speculation with no hard evidence. Also, neither of these are indicative of an intentional "rigging", which is what this thread was started as a claim towards.
It can easily be that everyone was just MASSIVELY unlucky. There's no requirements in the laws of luck that say that people have to be lucky. There are days where the casino doesn't pay out at all and days when it pays out way too much. And when we're talking about rates that are as low as they are, this is a distinct possibility.
The biggest reason I doubt it's actually rigged, and not just stupidity (whether on the part of Nexon or the users remains to be determined, if it ever will be) is because Nexon cannot afford the bad PR that would come with getting outed for doing something like that. I know they're money hungry, but they're not demented.

