The developers at Epic Games have broken Han Solo’s cardinal rule, telling players the odds of obtaining the Pirate Shop token, a limited-time item that gives its lucky finders the ability to take just about anything they want from the item shop for free. The disclosure comes after days of aspiring treasure hunters crashing out on social media , complaining about what they see as the unfairness built into earning the token, calling for a boycott, and in one instance alerting the U.S. Federal Trade Commission about Epic Games’ perceived anti-consumer chicanery via tweet. The official post shares the drop rates not only for the token but for a host of other rewards including a weekly gold skin that’s 10 times more rare than the thing that gets you nearly everything in the item shop for free for two weeks.
You asked for info on drop rates, so here’s how it works:
The new treasure this season is found in chests just like other items.…