I play video games for many hours a day/week, mostly Diablo and WoW. In my essentially professional opinion, considering I am a 3dcg guy and video games are literally my industry, RNG in video games has undoubtedly stopped being anything resembling pure RNG and now creates intentional statistical events on an extremely consistent basis. The complexity of these events are too complex to attribute it to simple game parameters, and behaves similar to the way you would expect AI to behave. Examples:
-the game decides you've been playing too long and bricks your RNG, there are already game mechanics similar to this openly introduced in WoW
-consistently strange streaks of luck that go far beyond just RNG to the point where the only way things become beneficial is because of these streaks of luck. Meaning something has a 30% chance to multicraft and it will not multicraft for 10 crafts and then you'll get jackpot RNG on the last few crafts
-jackpot RNG on the first boss kill or immediately after login
-strange loot table generation
I played games like Diablo 10 years ago when youd fish around for a good RNG rift or whatever. Now it's like, a good rift has 0% chance to spawn in your first 45 minutes of play then around an hour in it will spawn a god rift and there will also be a bunch of coinciding parallel RNG systems that pop on that rift as well right near 90% completion. That is the kind of thing that would be a tall tale from battle back in 2015, now it's the norm.
Basically it feels like RNG for idiots. Instead of just normal RNG and people get to experience the subtle nature of a big or crazy hand every once in a while, RNG has been compressed into these insane events that seem to also coincide with it's estimation of your biometrics. Like did you just start playing, and is your playstyle indicating fatigue etc.
If you start stacking the deck against a pro poker or jackpot player they will eventually catch wind. They have an intuitive grasp of what fairly falling cards look like. I have a similar intuition with video games.
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