Thank you for your interest in and helping to discover what the drop rates for Gnaw Crystals were.

Why did we do this? As consumers we need to stay informed. SA has given us an event that has left a sour taste in our mouths, for arguably the majority of the players in the game. Many people had to spend money to “meet minimums” or because they thought a few more crystals might give them a better chance for a 3 or 4*. If this is to continue we need to arm ourselves with information to make choices about how we play going forward. This survey gives us exactly that.

Now on to the good stuff.

We had over 700 responses and after scrubbing the responses for adequacy, the results are summarized as follows:

697 responders from 202 alliances

18,052 Gnaw crystals opened yielding: 327 3* and 56 4* characters

So what does that mean?

To open a 3* your odds were 1:55 (or 1.81%)

To open a 4* your odds were 1:322 (or 0.31%)

Click HERE for a detailed list of the responses and a Summarized list by Alliance (two tabs).

Notes:

About half a dozen responses were thrown out as they were duplicates or we are not able to contact the responder to verify irregular data.

There are technically fewer alliances, as I did not scrub all of them. For example CC, Cybertron Command, and CybertronCommand all show up but I believe these would all be one alliance. The drop rates were what we were truly after.

I left names hidden because I did not want to violate anyone’s privacy.

This is not the odds from character packs are. That is still an unknown to us. Although Some would say they are probably similar.

I don’t know if this will ever get to SA, but there were some very good comments left by the folks who responded. Most had the same theme. Many were too harsh to post here, but here are some that we can to give you a flavour of what the majority were thinking.

“A lot of us who put it so much into the leaderboard got nothing but 2 stars. We were 60th place and should have got the 3 star in a normal board.”

“15,000 points earned pushed people to earn. The level of rewards given for amount of effort applied makes players uninterested in participating in future events”

“I’m becoming more and more discouraged to spend money in the game. I already know buying character specific crystals are a waste because there is virtually no weighting to pull them. Now I don’t even want to pay for fuel cells for events because the prizes get worse and worse.”

“I opened I believe 58 of the hotspot crystals and only got a 2* from it and now 21 2* gnaws… not good”

“Rate was way too low especially for a weak bot like Gnaw. Normally for a leader board event like this you would get a 3* crystal being in the top 80 alliances”

“I Quit giving these dudes money. Drop rates are awful. Just milking every dime. 160k event for a 4* crystal should come back. Maybe less generous but SA needs to reward people better for playing.”

“This event total sucked for people who there butt off for nothing. They need to fire people who are responsible for this disaster. or write the wrong and get everyone plays TF a four-star Gnaw or four star bot of their choice.”

“I got over 10,000 event battle points and used cybercoins to refuel. I’m greatly disappointed in getting only a 2 star Gnaw, and 24 duplicates.”

“The build up to the entire Sharkticon Saga was huge during the live streams, however the entire saga was almost a waste of time. So glad I didn’t invest a cent in any of the last 4 events as the reality is the prizes were crap and the best thing about all of the events was the double XP. When double XP is the standout offering from 4 weeks worth of events there is a problem. I wasn’t going to also bring up the free voting gift either as I wanted to keep this about Gnaw, but it was just another unfortunate example of how little Space Ape actually respects their client base and I’m glad they were ripped to shreds over it on Facebook, but unfortunately will not change anything, so hopefully this petition does! Awesome game, pathetic rewards for effort…fix this and it will be unstoppable!”