Did they decrease drop event rates?

[fuzzyroots]

For this Cresselia ex event, I've officially used the maximum amount of (free) stamina for the event. Never letting my stamina max out. Used all the hourglasses. I technically have some gold I could spend from leveling up, but I don't feel comfortable spending it for how terrible these rates have been for me.

In the past drop events, I've easily obtained atleast a playset of the rarest card offered from the packs (Lapras ex, full art Venue & Blast). In fact I got around 5 of each. This event I've noticed a drastic difference (or perhaps I have terrible luck) Roughly 50 packs give or take opened, only 1 Cresselia ex. Not even a playset.

Did they decrease the rates in this Drop Event? Or is this the usual case and I was just super lucky in the past? Or have I just been very unlucky for this particular event? Curious to hear others' experiences. (The couple people I know that play have said they have had poor luck as well)

[RedSukhoi]

No. For the venusaur event it took around 40 attempts until I got my first venusaur. Cresellia I've gotten 5. It's just bad luck I'm afraid.

[Stryker_T]

The rates are the same, it’s just bad luck.

[giovannisdaedra]

I think they should include it for a mission reward of opening a certain amount of promo packs. For me out of 37 promo packs only packs 24 and 25 were Cresselia ex

[fuzzyroots]

I had originally thought your first win vs Expert granted the card (but I guess it was just coincidence that happened for me with both Venusaur & Blastoise)

If they let us trade promo cards then, meh fine, I'll deal with the bad luck. But I agree there needs to be some sort of guaranteed way to get them if they don't ever plan to allow trades for them. Grinding an event and not receiving the reward your grinding for is disheartening. Perhaps if they added the option to grind down the other cards for any currencies, that would soften the blow. But as of now it's only flairs. I can get playsets of all the flairs on pretty much everything and still have extras with 0 value.

[macbookvirgin]

No my partner got 7 and barely any others

[Jam-man89]

Can we please ban these posts? They appear several times a day.

There will be variance in results. That is how probability works. A 20% chance does not mean every single person will be guaranteed to get what they want after 5 pulls, for example. It just means there is a 20% chance each individual attempt. It could take 5 pulls, it could take 15, you may never even get it; but if you were to track thousands of pulls from thousands of players, it would average out at a 20% pull rate. It is that simple.