Gepard Diary: Exposing Pixo's Event Conspiracies

Hey, if you really want to go get the 'sockpuppet', I'd suggest you PM him on the discord and ask him to make an account here. Then we can track the IP Address to see where he is.

I could agree (more or less) with everything except the part about not being cynical toward the gambling chests.  People who blindly trust will get what's coming to them.  My expectations are based solely on previous chests pulls and those obivlouly were a different deal.  While I don't doubt some people have had good runs no one should be surprised others who didn't to voice it.  Creating an expectation only breeds bitter disappointment after a person is betrayed.  Gambling when money is involved will always be a crappy deal and a sign of poor game design.  In this event someone who has nothing could gamble $50 and theoretically tear through the lower leagues like Godzilla.  I'm in the mid to mid-rising slog with $20 invested, only need gold for verynspecific things at this point.  Throwing away any more on a limited mobile game when that same cash could buy from a vast market of console or PC games with far higher quality would be crazy.

People should be cynical of unknowns.  Keeping an open mind is important too.  Mostly it's about managing expectations, when there's a lack of information just assume the worst and one cannot be scammed.

I want to throw something in about the "winners marque" 

I am someone who has been working in tech for almost 20 years, and writing code for "fun" almost as long (yes I was a wee lad when I started writing code). 

Displaying data in real time can be expensive, not only on server resources but on the client side as well, never mind the man hours to build it and maintain it. There is no reason from a tech perspective to make the marque real time at all!

Is marque adding any value to your game play, or to the event? If the answer is no (the answer is no), then your not going to spend the tech resources to build it, and the infrastructure to support it.

If I were to venture to guess (and I could go look but I have tasks to complete) I would say that the winners list is just some giant JSON file sitting on a server using bog standard http to update --- cheap (on server resources), easy (http libraries as far as the eye can see), catchable (built in), CDN-able and stupefyingly simple to generate and deliver!

I highly doubt that Pixonic will go to the extent of hiring teens to act like a 'Pixonic Spy' and urge people to spin and buy stuff. And if they would, they probably wouldn't be hiring someone off the internet; the'd be hiring someone that they know personally. If the IP is tracked and it is found to be in Russia, voila, and there is the sockpuppet.

Then if the IP address shows up in Germany or Russia then it is probably a sockpuppet. 

You're joking, right? There is an astronomically small chance you can tug a Butch from a 100 Au box.

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Can I have one? I've had 4 LVL 9 Trebs that are feeling cold and lonely.

I dunno, not being a jerk, but The Doctor Is Out is on Android.  I would just presume he not win a Butch.... one less to face.  

I mentioned it in another thread, but I have spun a lot of the gold chests (by reinvesting the winnings from them into more spins).  Opened one Doc, about 4 Jesses, but no Butch.  He is not an easy guy to get.  Not sure any of them get levelled up though.  Not right now at least.

I don't normally post here just read but I'd like to chime in on this event thing.  I've almost been playing a year.  I'm older and enjoy playing it cause I can hopin and hop out. Much needed with kids.  On the events.  Halloween I thought was a joke.  Only did 100 chest that event. Never got a thing and lost close to 2000k gold. Same with whatever the last one was.  However on this event I had 2300 gold saved up. I did buy 2x19.99 (5k).  In total I had just over 7200.  I did 1000k chest. It was insane.  I basically just kept winning..