User blog comment:BlueChoco/Nexon's Biased Systems?/@comment-69.199.232.100-20120621223747/@comment-69.199.232.100-20120626234157

Well right now I'm not worried about the players and how fair nexon is being to everyone. The thing that I find wrong with the event is its horrible win/loss design that constitutes the idea of fairness. Rather, nexon isn't picking sides, it's more like they made a bad system that makes it seem as if one side is horendously overpowered.

Lets start with what most players consider to be "fair", which would be a situation where both spiders and scorpians have won some games. But how likely is this situation?

Consider in the situation that the previous spiders vs scorpians never happened and people choose teams randomly by thier choice. you can think of it as flipping a coin 20 times and getting 9 heads (scorpians) and 11 tails (spiders). Realise that these flips are set, thus will remain like this for the rest of the 4 weeks. The screw up of nexon, is that they are not flipping new coins rather they are simply going about and retaking pictures of the first result. Even if nexon were to assign teams with equal people and equal number of people in ranks, it would still be very probable that one side has smaller shift in skill than the other side more like 99 heads vs 101 tails. That small shift imediately determines the victory of the entire game, and it doesn't even take 4 weeks, rather if anything, the first day is enough.

The biggest fault in the system is how the system rewards the losers. The aspect that the same constant loss will be repeated for 28 days is bad enough, but to make it worse the point system is extremely bad representation. The ratio of 1:0 is not even close to the actual ratios of 106:94, and because of that, it's blatently stating that all of the loser's efforts were wasted completely. A more suitable system would reward one on how far their side got rather than a "one or the other" system which is heavily biased toward one side, and doesn't portray actual porportions.