Okay so atleast half the posts on this forum have been shitposts about the "broken" rewards system. There has been an uproar about how it gives more rewards to players who do worse, and I want to attempt to dispel these claims. Keep in mind my hypothesis ONLY works if Bungie has actually made their rewards system randomized, if in the future we find out they were giving lower players a higher rewards percentage, I will admit that I am a shitkicking bastard and suck at everything internet. Now let me give you an example of what I'm trying to argue before I argue: Someone asks you how your day was "Good" They ask you why "No reason, nothing bad has happened" The next day the same person asks you how your day was, but today is much different "Ah man it sucked" "Oh well I'm sorry to hear that, why?" And then you go off on a tangent, picking every little bad thing that happened to you, just to reassure yourself that your day has been horrible. You "can't" think of one good god damn thing that happened on this shitty day. You will always do this subconsciously. Good things did happen that day, but your mind chose not to remember because the bad things outweighed the good. It's a trick our minds play on us regarding emotional attachment to our well being. By the same token we can translate this to Destiny. [u][b]Also I will add: No I don't give a shit if you've played xx hours and haven't received anything, random is random, don't play the lottery you unlucky bastard. [/b][/u] I'm going with the 6v6 playlists when describing this btw. At the end of a game everyone has two reward slots. So that means you have two shots to get something, and it also means there are 10 more chances to get something for the other players. Simple probability, there's a higher chance that someone else wins something. [spoiler] [b]example:[/b] if you had a one of those rotating lottery cages with 100 numbered balls in it, and the winner was #1 and were saying the balls are being put back in after each draw. You get 2 chances to get it, while an umnamed source has 10. 2/100= 2% 10/100= 10%. 2%<10%. Umnamed source has a higher chance of winning.[/spoiler] Okay so now that we understand [u]that you are more likely to remember bad stuff that happens to you, and that there's a higher chance of someone else getting something in the destiny situation[/u], can you see where I'm heading with this? If not, read on. If so, skip to after the TL;DR and please follow instructions. Say your an above average player, or atleast you do well enough to be in the top half of the scoreboard. That means there's either 5, or 4 players under you. That also means there's anywhere from 83.34% to 66.67% of the possible spaces for awards under you. Math:[spoiler](slots=chances to win a random reward) 5 players under you = 10/12 slots remaining 4 players under you = 8/12 slots remaining [/spoiler] And so if players are [i]usually[/i] under you, you will [i]usually[/i] see worse players getting rewarded. If you [i]usually[/i] see players under you be rewarded, your rewards don't register in your mind as much, due to the anger/surprise of someone under you being rewarded, it is a more memorable event. Furthermore, if you [i]usually[/i] see worse players get rewarded, combined with the fact that their rewards outweigh yours in your memory, you will believe people who do worse than you have a higher chance to win. Which they don't, you just have a higher chance of seeing someone who did worse than you win if you are a high scoring player. Also, if you did bad a couple games and you were rewarded that game rather than the games you did good, you just got lucky, but because your so use to seeing people below you get rewarded, it mentally supports the belief that worse players get rewarded more. [b]TL;DR: The rewards system is not broken. RANDOM=/=BROKEN. If you thought that a RANDOM system was going to reward the top 13-33% more than the bottom 83-66% of players on the scoreboard, you have no bearing on probability and should probably play card games, I wnt ur muneyz nao. You win just as much as anyone else, but remember the times the reward system pissed you off. [/b] That's it. Done. Spoke my mind. Gave those two cents I was holding. [b]This was only directed to the people who truly believe Bungie is rewarding the worse players.[/b] I hope this could be the last thread ever on this subject, but I know it won't, [b]but anyone who understands my point could you kindly bump so this doesn't drown[/b]. AND PLEASE I WANT YOU TO ARGUE WITH ME, IF YOU CAN ACTUALLY FORM A LOGICAL DISAGREEMENT COME @ MEH M8.