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Yeah, WoW had many many problems with people not understanding probabilities that they added explicit code to track all drop rates and compare them to intended - and actually found a bug or two that way.

But mostly it was to explain to people that a 1 in 100 chance doesn’t mean you’ll get it even after 200 goes.



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