Here are CS:GO’s loot box odds
Thanks to the Chinese ministry of culture’s law from earlier this year, games which feature a loot box system must publish the likelihood of each of their potential drops, er, dropping. Now that CS:GO has finally had an official Chinese launch, Valve’s local partners Perfect World have released those odds.
Here’s the announcement on CS:GO’s Chinese website, which (apparently) also links to a real-time feed of in-game drops which neither you nor I will be able to read.
oOMeowthOo on Reddit provided atranslation – which, surprising no-one, is a lot easier to read than Google’s – but it’s still not very clear, probably because Perfect World have presented the odds in terms that relate each rarity tier to the last. That is: this is how rare a yellow drop is compared to a red, compared to a pink, compared to a purple, compared to a blue, and so on.
It’s very opaque, perhaps deliberately, but hansjc has scored the top-voted comment by crunching the numbers. Say you could open 125.12 cases. Based on Perfect World’s ratios, here’s what would drop:
- Blue – 100 items – 79.92%
- Purple – 20 items – 15.98%
- Pink – 4 items – 3.2%
- Red – 0.8 items – 0.64%
- Yellow – 0.32 items – 0.26%
