Twitchy Questioning 4: uBSN and the Goblet of Twitch

Bastiaan from Bioware noted on Reddit that they did not change the drop rates on Premium packs with this fix. link

"Just wanted to give a small clarification. Premium packs always had the best drop rates, and still do, because they have not been changed at all. Check back tomorrow for the stream and its info! "

Based on my limited 12000 point (40 packs) spending spree last night, the Premium packs do seem to have a pity timer, as I got an UR every 10th box opened on the dot, regardless of if the previous nine boxes had URs in them or not.

Other reports here on BSN seems to suggest that the Expert packs no longer do have a pity timer however.

I note in the video that hopefully penguinfetish will upload to his channel if he finds it relevant, that for casual players I'm not sure it's a good change, since you need to play quite a bit to earn the one million credits in order to be garanteed an UR. (15 minutes per gold match on average, 19 matches for the cool million = 4,75 hours per UR, garanteed) . My sample gave me 10 URs for 40 boxes though, so YMMV.

Obviously you can just throw money at the problem, and that is likely what they are aiming for - the Expert pack pity timer does seem more "fair" towards the average gamer though, even if the overall value from an andromeda points perspective was off (200 for expert packs, 300 for premium packs).

Bioware could look to change the model a bit, as to make the Expert packs cost 150 points instead, and leave in the pity timer for Experts. That would be fair to everyone I think, as even if you spent no money on the microtransactions, you still have to put in a serious amount of playtime to reach a full manifest at this stage, so to me it has to be about making the loot grind pace good to keep the casuals playing.

I am sure that will address it proactively. Not the Chinese law; lawyers won't let them comment on that.

Actually I expect tomorrow to be a clusterfuck as far as getting questions answered.