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What if marvel smegas are fake?

What if some of the marvel notifications are fake, so that Nexon makes you think it's easier to get good stuff so that people will buy more marvel codes?
You wouldn't even be able to tell, since there's no IGN in the notification.

conspiracy!

July 4, 2013

13 Comments • Newest first

paying

@cytherea: I think you're thinking about this too much now hahahaha

Reply July 4, 2013
bluebomber24

It potentially could be false advertising. That would be an unnescary risk Nexon would expose themself to. So it would be dumb to think they would do this as it would COST them money in the long run.

Reply July 4, 2013
EmpireSun

[quote=cytherea]How can you have personal testing to disprove the theory? Testing it yourself can only show that legitimate notifications are given, but does not disprove the possibility of fake ones to encourage consumption.[/quote]

People thought the messages were fake/generated at certain times because last time we had marvel, there was a notification saying a "A lucky person just got Fafnir Lost Cannon from Marvel Machine", but the Marvel Machine event wasn't even available at that time. (It became available after 10-30 minutes of that.) The discussion got serious and this is when Girasol posted on SP saying it was her the one that made that notification because they were testing the event. But she clarified that the notifications were real.
http://www.southperry.net/showthread.php?t=35833&page=35&p=1110436&viewfull=1#post1110436

That was the image they posted.

Reply July 4, 2013 - edited
Kursed

Wouldn't you see many people winning prizes when it was marvel machine 2x? I didn't see many when it was going on

Reply July 4, 2013 - edited
cytherea

[quote=paying]@cytherea: I don't think it would make much sense to throw in fake notices when real notices were given for really good items as it is [/quote]

It seems like it would be an easy way to avoid detection. Sure, good items may be given out very occasionally, but Nexon could very easily pad out the periods of time without good rewards by adding in a few tyrant notifications and no one would be any the wiser.

Reply July 4, 2013 - edited
paying

@cytherea: I don't think it would make much sense to throw in fake notices when real notices were given for really good items as it is

@Wubzey: I believe girasol also leaked how the marvel machine worked in general. Something along the lines of what you get is set as soon as you press spin, but yeah. It's possible but that's not really an issue to be concerned about and have elevated to being a conspiracy

Reply July 4, 2013 - edited
NightCodex

Or what if this is all a dream, and the choice of wether or not to buy Marvel codes will have no impact on your game whatsoever, and this story about the Maplers is being told by a grandad to his grandson.

Reply July 4, 2013 - edited
Wubzey

[quote=paying]This was actually a belief of mine since they were released on a timer but after some personal testing with friends and girasol's reply to me herself a long time ago this was quickly dismissed.[/quote]

What if the marvel machine is programmed to give out something good at set time intervals? :O

Reply July 4, 2013 - edited
cytherea

[quote=paying]This was actually a belief of mine since they were released on a timer but after some personal testing with friends and girasol's reply to me herself a long time ago this was quickly dismissed.[/quote]

How can you have personal testing to disprove the theory? Testing it yourself can only show that legitimate notifications are given, but does not disprove the possibility of fake ones to encourage consumption.

Reply July 4, 2013 - edited
OneLife

nexon just got exposed

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paying

This was actually a belief of mine since they were released on a timer but after some personal testing with friends and girasol's reply to me herself a long time ago this was quickly dismissed.

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JustDontCare

HA. I wouldn't be surprised if they did do it.

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HairyCreatures

[b]DAYUM![/b]

No, Nexon is not [b]THAT[/b] clever...

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