bbluma17

The Monte Carlo system would be a welcome QoL change some day. Dota 2 uses a similar mechanic for bashes with a % chance. I believe they call it "pseudo-random" chance

I agree. Mostly so I can stop talking about probability and randomness with people. :) Randomness isn’t a perfect spread across variables. It’s random. And it isn’t “fair”. I’d like to nudge towards fairness if we can.

rustyshackleford7508

“Does that mean we’ll never do it? I can’t say that...”

The fact that I gave myself the out should be proof positive that I’m telling the truth. If I were lying why bother with the caveat? I gave myself that out because I have a lot of bosses and this is something we have been asked for regularly. Many F2P mobile games do it (I can’t speak to which ones, it’s just considered industry standard); and the team does not want to do it.

And as I said in other posts, because we’ve talked about changing drop rates in the player’s favor (Monte Carlo system), that would be a dynamic pricing change. So there are always chance we will use it in a positive way.

If we ever make this change we will announce it in advance so people know.

I’ve never seen that patent before so I can’t speak to it, but let me clarify - we do no difficulty tuning or targeted offers at all. All drops are a fixed rate.

We have talked about a Monte Carlo system which actually increases your odds if you don’t get a drop after a few rolls. But that isn’t in the game because we don’t have the tech.

The only targeting we do is that we have some “lifecycle packs” that get offered to people as they’re leveling up, but they can only be bought once and they get offered to all players.

ImSoBasic

I mean, it seems more like a CG marketing exercise. We give to charity, they don't give to charity, yet they reap the PR rewards from an event branded as the "Capital Games Charity Event."

I don't normally address responses like this but I feel the need to defend my coworkers hard work to make this happen. This is entirely driven by a handful of employees who feel passionate about helping those in need. Besides the satisfaction of doing something to dramatically change a kid's life and some late nights planning, we get nothing. This isn't some line item in a spreadsheet for an exec. Its about helping God damn kids who desperately need support. If you could stream games for a day and revolutionize the health of children in your community, would you do it? Because you have that power right now. We all do. Don't donate through our page if you don't want to, give another way or through another charity.