Questions about the VanaFest Golden Gobbiebag Giveaway

[Milva]

It makes sense!

Nope.
Assuming EVERY player used to have at least 10 mules and bought 10x10 marbles for every account and we were getting 30-50 Rank winners this way, you are still looking at something like 2-5 JP winners getting lv99-2 weapons, whereas NA/EU are capped at 1 lv90.
I know my 'math' is oversimplified, but don't tell me SE didn't math JP bonanza in such a way that there's a good chance for one or more winners. Otherwise, why bother giving people false hope?

[Zumi]

Nope.
Assuming EVERY player used to have at least 10 mules and bought 10x10 marbles for every account and we were getting 30-50 Rank winners this way, you are still looking at something like 2-5 JP winners getting lv99-2 weapons, whereas NA/EU are capped at 1 lv90.
I know my 'math' is oversimplified, but don't tell me SE didn't math JP bonanza in such a way that there's a good chance for one or more winners. Otherwise, why bother giving people false hope?

Nope your wrong. You obviously didn't read the rest of the thread. JP players with Nomad Mog Bonanza only get 1 entry per account. It doesn't matter how many chars you have you get 1 entry total. JP players have to log in with their SE account info on the Vanafest website and pick 1, 5 digit number. There is no in game Mog Bonanza for anyone.

I believe there was something like 4 winners of rank 1 in the 2010 Nomad Mog Bonzana so taking into account that 75% of the player base can't participate, there you go about 1 JP winner should win, it could be more or less.

[Milva]

Nope your wrong. You obviously didn't read the rest of the thread. JP players with Nomad Mog Bonanza only get 1 entry per account. It doesn't matter how many chars you have you get 1 entry total. JP players have to log in with their SE account info on the Vanafest website and pick 1, 5 digit number. There is no in game Mog Bonanza for anyone.

I believe there was something like 4 winners of rank 1 in the 2010 Nomad Mog Bonzana so taking into account that 75% of the player base can't participate, there you go about 1 JP winner should win, it could be more or less.

I roughly took it into account by dividing 'normal bonanza' winnder numbers by 10 (30-50 --> 2-5). Also, it's more like 25% of player base can't participate in JP bonanza:
Last year's census - login peaks are during JP prime time

My guesstimation might be rough, but I doubt it's far from what SE envisions.

[Daniel_Hatcher]

Nope.
Assuming EVERY player used to have at least 10 mules and bought 10x10 marbles for every account and we were getting 30-50 Rank winners this way, you are still looking at something like 2-5 JP winners getting lv99-2 weapons, whereas NA/EU are capped at 1 lv90.
I know my 'math' is oversimplified, but don't tell me SE didn't math JP bonanza in such a way that there's a good chance for one or more winners. Otherwise, why bother giving people false hope?

Don't know much about the bonanza in Japan this year, do ya?!

Random is random where the numbers are, 1000 people could win it or 0 people could win it.

Do you think in real gambling they "fix" it to make sure there is at least 1 winner?

PS. The nonsense on JP being 75% of the playerbase is just funny.

[FrankReynolds]

I roughly took it into account by dividing 'normal bonanza' winnder numbers by 10 (30-50 --> 2-5). Also, it's more like 25% of player base can't participate in JP bonanza:
Last year's census - login peaks are during JP prime time

My guesstimation might be rough, but I doubt it's far from what SE envisions.

I read that census as: login peaks are at the time when JP, US and EU players are all logged in at the same time.

[Muse]

The word Bayohne oh-so-carefully used (doubtlessly on the advice of counsel) was "competition." It is a "competition" to correctly answer a trivia question. That is how they're getting around whatever problematic lottery laws that are in the way.

Yes, and sadly, a few of us might not get our question right as it'll be about the Vanafest most likely.

We have prepared a special survey based on the events and announcements of VanaFest 2012 to be posted after the event. By filling it out and answering the “Gobbie” question correctly you will be entered into a competition where you could win one of many Golden Gobbiebags, each exploding with a variety of rare in-game items!

So for those of us that will miss some of the livestreams from Vanafest... We won't have a clue about what to answer, and won't be able to enter.

Will this event be SOLELY BASED on Vanafest? Or will the survey be over other things as well?

[Maahes]

Yes, and sadly, a few of us might not get our question right as it'll be about the Vanafest most likely.



So for those of us that will miss some of the livestreams from Vanafest... We won't have a clue about what to answer, and won't be able to enter.

Will this event be SOLELY BASED on Vanafest? Or will the survey be over other things as well?

Was wondering about this myself being in one of those pesky timezones that will make it difficult to view the stream

London
June 23, 2012: 1:30am ~ 9:00am
June 24, 2012: 1:30am ~ 8:00am

[Camiie]

Surely someone will post the correct answer as we all know the question is just a technical formality.