WWE Champions General - Despite his claims, DSP is still spending thousands of dollars on the WWE Champions mobile game

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The only gacha I play is Star Trek Timelines. I stopped playing it for nearly three years because I had spent around $200 just trying to expand my maximum crew slots because they release a new character seemingly every week. I came back to it only a few months ago to find that my account was still active and all of my crew and ships were intact, so I'm back to playing it regularly. Haven't spent a dime on it since, though.
 
Phil's reaction to being asked about The Placeholders is hilarious. It's like watching a child lie about the snack he ate. How can someone who lies so much be so bad at it?
 
ReentryPhantom said:
Why would he even address it?
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Phil has to address everything. He feels that he can control the narrative in his favor every time he reacts to anything positive or negative. That has been one of his major downfalls. He cannot let anything slide and ignore it. That is why he constantly gets fucked with. He would be in a far better position if he learned to ignore shit years ago. It used to be his ego causing him to react to everything. Now it just paranoia.
 
Anybody watching to see if he's pulled that Gargano card and/or continue to grind up in the ongoing contest?
 
Genie The Hedgehog said:
I don't know what Cardfight is but do TCGs really count as gacha games? Getting cards is intrinsically part of the entire genre so to me it never counted as true gacha. Maybe I'm just exceptional.
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I would say that online TCGs use the same business model. Magic the Gathering's new online service Arena has:

* Free daily/weekly rewards to keep you coming back but aren't even enough for a casual deck.
* Strictly random packs with ~1 in a couple hundred chance of getting a particular ultra rare and no way to buy a specific card.
* Nothing to keep you from getting more than 4 copies of a card (limit for any given card in your deck). You can convert extra copies back to in game currency but the exchange rate is miserably low.
* Serious power creep and set rotation to keep you from sticking with a deck and making minor tweaks.
* Pay-to-enter events

So you have the same setup where it's free on paper but it's obviously designed to push players into spending real money. The big differences are the cost (maybe $1000 to build a top-of-the-line deck + a few hundred/year to update it) and culture (not sure if there's an equivalent to guilds or factions but nothing as ridiculous as Champions) so there's much less incentive to whale compared with Champions.
 
twattycake said:
* Strictly random packs with ~1 in a couple hundred chance of getting a particular ultra rare and no way to buy a specific card.
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now while there is no way to buy or trade specific cards it does have a "Wild card" system which every x packs you get a wild card which you can use to make a card of the wildcards rarity, these can also come in packs randomly in any rarity, but taking that rarity so i don't think you can get 2 mythic wild cards
 
twattycake said:
I would say that online TCGs use the same business model. Magic the Gathering's new online service Arena has:

* Free daily/weekly rewards to keep you coming back but aren't even enough for a casual deck.
* Strictly random packs with ~1 in a couple hundred chance of getting a particular ultra rare and no way to buy a specific card.
* Nothing to keep you from getting more than 4 copies of a card (limit for any given card in your deck). You can convert extra copies back to in game currency but the exchange rate is miserably low.
* Serious power creep and set rotation to keep you from sticking with a deck and making minor tweaks.
* Pay-to-enter events

So you have the same setup where it's free on paper but it's obviously designed to push players into spending real money. The big differences are the cost (maybe $1000 to build a top-of-the-line deck + a few hundred/year to update it) and culture (not sure if there's an equivalent to guilds or factions but nothing as ridiculous as Champions) so there's much less incentive to whale compared with Champions.
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This is pretty much how Teppen(Mobile Cardgame with Capcom characters) works.

They frontload you with a ton of free shit with it's month long starter pack on top of the normal trickle of in game currency. A season pass that nets you more rewards if you have it. Power creeps that make old cards look shit in comparison when new decks come out every season.

The only thing compared to Phil's game of choice is it's incentive to do pvp mode and it's real time instead of taking turns like Magic The Gathering or Hearthstone. Not as relaxing due to the fact he's playing against others and might lose to another person.
 
ReentryPhantom said:
Why would he even address it?
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He won't deny that it's his account, so instead he has to take these opportunities to reinforce that he REALLY has NO IDEA what this is referencing. Even though things like 'Zena' are banned in his chat, so he's not even consistent on this because he can't decide if he is following it or he's oblivious. As always, Phil is all things in any given situation. But he's also insecure and desperately wants to make it clear that this is bannable, even though there's no reason for it to be. He's playing an RPG - 'Placeholders' could be referring to any number of reasonable things, and yet he can't resist the temptation to suddenly conclude this must be a detractor meme. There is nothing in the question that suggests that, unless you know what it's referring to.

Plus that acting is absolute garbage. Normally he would just reflexively say "I don't know what that means, thanks for the dollar." Instead we get this pantomime. It's like he has no idea how he normally acts. Once again, you leave Phil to his own devices and he will make an opportunity to handle it in the worst way possible.
 
actually said:
Anybody watching to see if he's pulled that Gargano card and/or continue to grind up in the ongoing contest?
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There is currently a faction blitz event going on, and without a team he is losing ground in the monthly event. He needs a faction, and eventually someone is going to take him in.
 
His guild leveled up to tier 2 IMG_20200428_183457.jpg
 
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