Saw these two posts on X
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@SteelyMacBeam said in Saw these two posts on X:
@SaveFarris I'd hope both. 20K is a solid sample size and likely has some statistical significance.
The twitter poll has a sample size.
Their internal metrics isn't a sample. It's the entire dataset.
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I'm at 982K XP. So I should hopefully at least get 2 of the 3 XP path bosses. Could get all 3 if there is another double XP weekend. I was hoping they would do double XP for this upcoming weekend with the extended holiday on Monday. Haven't seen that they have announced that yet (huge miss for the player base if they don't). As for collections...I finally hit 200 cards last night after getting 5 in TA3. No way I'm getting any bosses in that.
I'm really disappointed in the game this year. I've been playing DD since 2017. This yr definitely seems the most unrewarding as far as XP goes. I don't even mind the grind to 1 million XP or 1,150,000 for all 3 bosses - with the old XP rates this would've been achievable over a 12 week period. But this yr it just feels like a second job and I'm already burnt out - I normally make it to early / mid August before I stop playing (normally move to Madden). As others have said - I'll be lucky to make it to mid July this yr...but NCAA will get all of my time starting July 16th.
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@SaveFarris The Twitter poll was done voted on by the most hardcore players. You really think more than 14% of the casual player base has a one player from the boss pack? Get real, they probably couldn't even get one if the it was 2xp all week.
Not like it matters anyway, if the 14% of voters are whales that outspending the other 86% of players, SDS will cater to them— see Madden & NHL
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So double XP weekend helped a lot if peopleget there, I expect to see more of that to get people through the XP path.
I suspect this weekend program is going to yield a lot of free packs with S1 cards in them, this will not only help the 86% by getting free ones, but will lower prices.
I also wouldn't be surprised if the program yields some big XP too.
The only real complaint I can see when it's over will be all these S1 cards people won't have until season is over and will have to use WC slots to actually get to use them.
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@AfterShockGamer said in Saw these two posts on X:
@SaveFarris The Twitter poll was done voted on by the most hardcore players. You really think more than 14% of the casual player base has a one player from the boss pack? Get real, they probably couldn't even get one if the it was 2xp all week.
SDS doesn't need a twitter poll to get that information. They can go look at the ACTUAL data to see where everyone is.
Oh, and if that poll doesn't match reality? Congratulations! You've just given SDS reason to never listen to fan complaints again because they know fans are lying about their status.
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@SaveFarris
Bold of you to assume they listen to us to begin with! /s
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963,248 as of 11 AM EST 05/22/2024
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I'm just not sure about how reliable twitter polls are going to be. I could easily see people that are unhappy with the game and want the setup to be changed just lying and saying they haven't reached certain rewards in hope it changes things. Either way, as was mentioned above, SDS has the actual numbers so they know where people are at.
For the collection rewards boss packs, I wonder how many are in the same boat as me, where I could get them right now if I wanted to, but I am not locking in those season 1 cards for a season 1 reward. If the rewards were core I would be locking them in.
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FYI, that poll is for the S1 Collection, not xp reward path...
But reading that so many are still not even at the first boss in the xp reward path is also very unsettling
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Two links are there 1 for the bosses and the other one is for the XP path bosses
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@xxfrystealerxx said in Saw these two posts on X:
FYI, that poll is for the S1 Collection, not xp reward path...
But reading that so many are still not even at the first boss in the xp reward path is also very unsettling
There's two links there, one for the bosses, and one for the path...
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oh, wow, I just clicked on the 1. Thanks! Yes, this should be a big red flag for SDS, hopefully someone sees it!
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I agree that SDS does not need a poll, they have the all the numbers they would need to see actual percentages.
To be honest the poll is probably skewed. Who is following MLB the show streamers on twitter? That would probably be the most hardcore players, and a higher percentage of them are probably further along.
According to the web I have 90 hours invested in DD. That is not a lot of time compared to many here but it works out to about 10 hours a week. Now I don't optimize my playing time to get the most XP every session but at that many hours I only have 344K XP. So at my current pace, continuing my normal playstyle, I would need 261 hours play time to reach the first boss pack.
Divide that by 12 weeks in a Season and we get 21.7 hours needed per week to reach the 1,000,000 XP mark. Even though I am retired I am not willing to devote 3 hours a day, 7 days a week for 3 months to get one 99 card.
Now, I realize that my pace may be slow but if I have to plan my play time to get the optimal XP per hour played then it's just not worth my time.
This is the first time in a while that I can remember not reaching the first boss pack in the initial Inning/Xp program (when my interest in playing is at it's height).
We won't even discuss Collections. Since I have no desire to do every TA for every division I am not even close to any major milestone there.
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@Sarge1387 said in Saw these two posts on X:
It’s gotta bring up some warning signs for SDS here. Under a quarter of the votes who voted have even reached Boss 1 in the reward path, and 86% of the people who voted don’t even have 1 of the players from the Boss collection pack.
Im not even close. Im at 725k xp or around there. I know i won't make it, thats fine f'it.
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On one had I want to think that the people on Twitter are lying becsuse people like to bash the game. They also want to hear dimmu complain becsuse it makes them feel justified in not liking the game. His streams are fun, but there's alpt of complaining in the comments.
On the other hand, I have all the bosses and it's alarming how many randoms in coop are still surprised to see me bring out jimmy.
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X is mostly Bots and Nazis now, I wouldn’t take any poll on that platform too seriously.
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To get some context … I just looked up parallel levels
- Buxton: 408995 players have him P1
- Rollins: 91460
If we assume that some of the early guys used Buxton just a little bit to P1 … approx. 1/4 of them have Rollins. Now lots of people do not have Buxton (or did not use him). That leads to my assumption, that those 86% are not out of the world … And: Dimmu has his own audience, not some crazy random X people
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@go4stros25 said in Saw these two posts on X:
On the other hand, I have all the bosses and it's alarming how many randoms in coop are still surprised to see me bring out jimmy.
You have to realize that at over 250 hours played you have far more time invested than a vast majority of players.
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@YOSHI24 said in Saw these two posts on X:
To get some context … I just looked up parallel levels
- Buxton: 408995 players have him P1
- Rollins: 91460
If we assume that some of the early guys used Buxton just a little bit to P1 … approx. 1/4 of them have Rollins. Now lots of people do not have Buxton (or did not use him). That leads to my assumption, that those 86% are not out of the world … And: Dimmu has his own audience, not some crazy random X people
How many got Rollins to P1 simply choosing him in BR every chance that they got?
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for me, the XP grind to the 3 bosses that we can't use in 2 weeks is fine. not ideal, but whatever. the real question is, how, why would they expect us to collect these sellable cards? it's just ridiculous to think we are gonna collect so many cards that we can't use, to get a prize we can't use. absurd. I'll take my stubbs and and hope for a better collection layout.
