
I've never seen it myself at any studio I've worked at. I can't say it never happens, but I've never seen it on any project I've worked on, and I've been working on games with randomized rewards for over a decade. Many of the games I've worked on had cash shops, and I've worked on many of the loot systems involved with the distribution of these items. When we test these systems, we go for several million loot distribution trials and then analyze these results to make sure that our distributions are reasonable. Generally speaking, the internet never forgets and it's hard to regain the trust of spending players if we're found out to be manipulating the numbers.
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