DevReply What are the odds of pulling pieces/weapons of different rarities from crates and scrapping?

I'm interested in how you interpret Apple's clause in a way that exempts Battle Bay's Premium and Epic Chests.

"Apps offering “loot boxes” or other mechanisms that provide randomized virtual items for purchase must disclose the odds of receiving each type of item to customers prior to purchase."

My interpretation:
Are these loot boxes? Yes
Are the varying rarities (epic item/legendary piece) randomized virtual items? Yes
Are these loot boxes purchased? Yes
Therefore, the odds that the buyer receives an epic item or a legendary item piece from a Premium Chest must be made available to the buyer.

Even though the chests guarantee a certain rarity, they have the chance at a higher rarity. You can call it a "bonus".. but it is undeniably a potential way to purchase the higher rarity item with the odds attached.

 

Heya -

I’m not sure if maybe some previous answers have been missed here.

We always work together closely with our app stores - both apple and google. So, not only do we make sure we are in compliance with their guidelines ( otherwise games and updates wouldn’t get past review stage ) but also do we work together in understanding and setting standards in general.

For the current topic of showing odds - it’s already been planned long before the Forum discussion ^^ and we gladly share - so simply stay tuned

 

Thanks! I wish that woulda just been said from the beginning.

Now I just want to try to guess the odds correctly.... 5% chance for an epic item instead of rare and 1% chance for a legendary piece instead of epic.

 

I'd hate to see them apply this regulation in an overreaching manner, such that it would apply to random loot drops from mobs in an RPG, for example. That would be my fear this is taken to the reducto ad absurdium level that seems to happen whenever governments try to regulate things they don't know much about.

In this case, Grim has come out to broadcast that the odds will be published in a future update, and we can have a whopping big megathread discussing the numbers with lots of juicy math and statistics when that update drops. Should we just let this thread ride off into the sunset?

 

Also....

It better be massive.