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Why Are The New IOW Straps RNG?

SenseiKreese
SenseiKreese Member ✭✭✭
edited October 2021 in SUGGESTIONS

While I truly appreciate the fact that we have IOW straps available in the Stipulation Shop, is there a reason that the gender and class are random? That is such a terrible way to determine which IOW characters we will be able to put a strap on. Is it really asking to much to have the strap be a set gender and class and just rotate them on a daily basis. Hell, if something has to be random, then you can make the strap that shows up every day random.

You are charging us 62k stip coins for a belt, which is fine, at least let us know what we will be getting. I would hate to waste 3+ days of stipulation matches to get a female trickster IOW strap which could only be turned into strap parts. Its just a bad system that should be reevaluated.

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  • TSD
    TSD Member ✭✭
    edited October 2021

    Kind of off topic, but speaking of RNG can’t we have one event where you can earn the card instead of having a chance of getting the card out of the bag. When was the last time we could have earn the card through the milestones? Make the event harder to obtain but it’s just repetitive at this point, only to get like 800 out of 2000 shards which will not be touch until 6 months or a year.

    I also agree with Sensei

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  • KingWarrenG
    KingWarrenG Member ✭✭

    I wouldn't mind the randomness so much if the straps were a 3rd of the price but it would be a better if it wasn't so random and expensive at the same time. I'd be happier to know what I'm getting as far as the strap goes or if you insist on making it random maybe alternate between male and female so that every other day it's one or the other and maybe randomize the class but have only 2 or 3 of the available classes per day. I hope this makes sense to whoever might read this.

  • DearYou
    DearYou Member ✭✭✭

    Yeah, if there's gonna be some random element of who it's useful for I wouldn't really be mad if they operated like the HOF straps that sometimes show up in SD store. I'd rather see a strap that is useful on someone I don't have and think "Eh, maybe better luck tomorrow" and save my coins because inevitably you're gonna end up with a bunch of people that spend their coins on stuff they won't have use for any time soon and get disgruntled.

  • Booz5
    Booz5 Member

    Prices for these straps are insanely too high, It literally takes months if you cant max the stip tour's (leaderboards) to even get the ICOW character. Then to have completely random set of straps? so what happens when you pull 8 of the Showboat males? You literally are at the mercy of RNG and then you have to wait to get 62500 coins again to get another one. you make straps with "high chance bonuses" more obtainable than these..... Those you can spend like 25$ guarantee yourself atleast 2-4 of those belts from the portal event. Oh well i guess i have to wait till i eventually get a just 4star male showboat belt or whatever male or female class i need to put a strap on these characters.

  • Donjay56
    Donjay56 Member ✭✭✭

    when the straps came out initially, they were tied to a specific WM. Why can’t that be implemented here? To @SenseiKreese ’s point we are investing resources into a strap, and with only 18 IWM cards total, there doesn’t need to be so much RNG. Make a male and female strap if you want, or rotate the WM that you use. Either would be better than the RNG currently in place.

  • Smgordo13
    Smgordo13 Member ✭✭✭

    Have to agree with all of the above.

    The cost is ridiculous, especially when so random.

    I have already seen a Female Powerhouse pulled, guess what, there is no IOW FEM PH.

  • 0chogring0
    0chogring0 Member ✭✭✭

    I did some back of the envelope type of math on these straps and the values are just so poor. Even if we make assumptions that are very player-friendly, you’re still looking at something like 1 million stip tour currency as the expected cost for getting a legendary strap for a specific promoter. Considering people are getting maybe 20k currency per day if they do all the tours and let’s say even another 20k off of leaderboards, you’re still talking about months to get the strap you want. And that leaves you no currency for getting the promoters you want us to recruit, or the marquee tour tickets.

    The 62.5k price point is completely outrageous given how much variability there is in these straps. They are a terrible value at that price.

    So please either slash a zero off so we can at least increase our number of low odds attempts, or reduce the RNG so that we can at least get the bonus we want or the class/gender we want.

    Good idea in concept to add them to the store; terrible value in reality.

  • ChasHawk
    ChasHawk Member ✭✭✭

    I completely agree...62,500 is 2 to 3 days worth of stipulation tours, so the cost is ridiculous to begin with. Add the fact that you are way more likely to end up something completely useless than for an IOW character that actually exists? Then it is just a cruel joke, especially after hyping this up for so long and making it seem as if we were being done some sort of great favor.

  • Stagger Lee
    Stagger Lee Moderator Moderator

    seth rollins event and many got zombie black for free as well.

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  • Der gulp
    Der gulp Member ✭✭✭
    edited November 2021

    Count me in on that!

    Either rethink the amount of stip coins needed per pull, or specify whom the strap is benefiting to.

    It's obvious that they don't want us to get the cards and other stuff out of the stipulation shop too early but the sheer randomness of what we pull in regard of, what, 18 cards available atm is just not attractive. If they stick to this scheme it would be at least nice to get the RNG content coherent to the IOW cards available at the moment. Don't give us absolutely obsolete straps for ie male acrobat / female trickster IOWs. (Maintaining this shouldn't be an issue as there might not be many new IOWs in the future other than on wrestlemania event once a year)

  • Stagger Lee
    Stagger Lee Moderator Moderator

    People already have all the stip shop characters if you played daily its reasonable to have them all at this point. No plans to adjust the straps rng at this time.