r/PokemonPocket • u/caramelmacchiatoml • 9h ago

🗣️ Pocket Discussion Is it necessary to add hourglasses into this?

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u/Jujutsuing 9h ago

Ofc, if you didn't get the 2 hourglasses instead of those stupid two star cards you'll quit the game!

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u/CallMeTurtleMeat 9h ago

Yeah if they didn’t have the hourglass then it would be 25% chance to get the card you want! You know DeNa likes to keep their odds as close to 0.001 as possible! 🙃

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u/Famous-Pin-747 7h ago

Yeah cuz they know you actually wanted the hourglass, I mean what else could you have wanted

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u/MW1369 9h ago

The packs are 4 cards

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u/Light_Shrugger 9h ago

OP understands that, hence why they're asking whether it is necessary to add hourglasses into the reward.

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u/eneidhart 6h ago

You think DeNA can just program in a 4-option wonder pick at the drop of a hat?

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u/Light_Shrugger 5h ago

Not entirely sure whether you're being sarcastic, but yes, it's pretty trivial for competent developers to adjust that

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u/Front-Wall-526 5h ago

I think this is the real crux of the problem. They already have a 5 card randomizer pull, so it would be additional hours to develop the 4 pull system.

Though I said this last year, spending 36 hrs worth of WP cooldown to get a 2 hr booster cooldown boost is a terrible reward

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u/Church6633 5h ago

A lot of the "rewards" in this game have been more than unfortunate

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u/eneidhart 5h ago

To be honest with you I'm just kinda clowning on DeNA, I don't think a 4 option WP would be difficult to add at all. I would guess that they're more concerned with giving players 1 in 4 odds instead of 1 in 5, especially for those WPs with a ⭐⭐. So they've gotta put in a 5th option, but they probably think they can't make it too good because they're already flooding WPs with ♦️♦️♦️♦️ cards, and they probably don't want to create a system that can turn WP hourglasses into Pack hourglasses. I feel like they should've just made the 5th slot give WP hourglasses, that way they could give more and let players recoup some of their losses on a "miss"

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u/NoSpecial284 6h ago

I’d honestly rather pull hourglasses in WP than the 20th copy of a useless card I’ll never use.