edit: I was talking about threads that don't relate to the bioware bazaar
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is it just me or are the people with 420 at the end of their name spammers? excessive click on this link on tons of threads here.
edit: I was talking about threads that don't relate to the bioware bazaar
edit: I was talking about threads that don't relate to the bioware bazaar
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Writtern by CptPatch on another threwad. Makes interesting reading.
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Ah, an appropriate thread for pointing out Bazaar flaws.
I realized almost immediately that with 5950 tokens, I wasn't going to get squat. So, instead, I've been crunching data. Found some interesting stiff (and I'm far from done!).
How do you explain that 28+ winners have _no_ games registered? Game registration alone is worth anywhere from 1200 to 6000+ tokens, so you just know that if they had them, they would have registered them. According to the rules, you do NOT need to own or register any games, but... It's like starting your token collection at -6000 compared to everybody else. Yet these people amassed enough tokens to win auctions that cost 8620+ (the lowest winning bid). The peculiar thing is that many winners with no games registered _do_ have game achievements and other indications of having played the games. Are they just playing on their siblings' copies of the games? Or are they themselves their "brothers" and "sisters" and "mother" and "father" and...and... The rules say a _person_ can have only one token-accumulating account. But the only verification that one person is different from another is the email address and name. It seems it would be incredibly easy to amass a dozen or more free email accounts from various providers such as Yahoo, Comcast, GMail, etc., and assign a different identity to each. Then you start having each account do referrals to each other to start the ball rolling. Then bring in a dozen of your friends, each doing the same thing. Then start swapping clicks. There's 500 points a day right there. And it might be pertinent to point out that at least 15 of those 28+ didn't join the forum until on or after the Bazaar was announced on 3/29. (They don't own the games. They don't play the games. They're just here for the free stuff. How does that qualify them as part of "the community"?)
There' was also a fascinating bit, Statistics-wise, that occurred yesterday. Three winners in a row each had the exact same avatar. It's odds-defying because A) same avatar, 1-in-105 chance individually, but in a row?
They're all in the auction at the same time, C) they each have enough tokens to actually bid, D) and they each actually _win_ their auctions 1, 2, 3. As a racing Trifecta, the payout would be enormous and the fact that it happened strains one's credulity -- UNLESS you know Occam's Razor and come to the simplest explanation.
For a contest where a winner can take home only two prizes max, this has happened ONCE. Ecliptic Deimos dropped 9321 on a BW Lit Pack + 9250 on a ME Novels pack = 18,571. Then the very next item was a graphics card valued at $179 that went for a bid of 10806. (I guess it doesn't pay to be impatient.)
Enough nuggets for now. Time to get back to mining data!
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Ah, an appropriate thread for pointing out Bazaar flaws.
I realized almost immediately that with 5950 tokens, I wasn't going to get squat. So, instead, I've been crunching data. Found some interesting stiff (and I'm far from done!).
How do you explain that 28+ winners have _no_ games registered? Game registration alone is worth anywhere from 1200 to 6000+ tokens, so you just know that if they had them, they would have registered them. According to the rules, you do NOT need to own or register any games, but... It's like starting your token collection at -6000 compared to everybody else. Yet these people amassed enough tokens to win auctions that cost 8620+ (the lowest winning bid). The peculiar thing is that many winners with no games registered _do_ have game achievements and other indications of having played the games. Are they just playing on their siblings' copies of the games? Or are they themselves their "brothers" and "sisters" and "mother" and "father" and...and... The rules say a _person_ can have only one token-accumulating account. But the only verification that one person is different from another is the email address and name. It seems it would be incredibly easy to amass a dozen or more free email accounts from various providers such as Yahoo, Comcast, GMail, etc., and assign a different identity to each. Then you start having each account do referrals to each other to start the ball rolling. Then bring in a dozen of your friends, each doing the same thing. Then start swapping clicks. There's 500 points a day right there. And it might be pertinent to point out that at least 15 of those 28+ didn't join the forum until on or after the Bazaar was announced on 3/29. (They don't own the games. They don't play the games. They're just here for the free stuff. How does that qualify them as part of "the community"?)
There' was also a fascinating bit, Statistics-wise, that occurred yesterday. Three winners in a row each had the exact same avatar. It's odds-defying because A) same avatar, 1-in-105 chance individually, but in a row?
They're all in the auction at the same time, C) they each have enough tokens to actually bid, D) and they each actually _win_ their auctions 1, 2, 3. As a racing Trifecta, the payout would be enormous and the fact that it happened strains one's credulity -- UNLESS you know Occam's Razor and come to the simplest explanation.For a contest where a winner can take home only two prizes max, this has happened ONCE. Ecliptic Deimos dropped 9321 on a BW Lit Pack + 9250 on a ME Novels pack = 18,571. Then the very next item was a graphics card valued at $179 that went for a bid of 10806. (I guess it doesn't pay to be impatient.)
Enough nuggets for now. Time to get back to mining data!
