Igor Stating the odds/chance explicitly (as the egg coin machine does) is the only thing that the claw machine needs. It looks "weird" until you catch the pattern. People saying that this is forcing players to spend money are out of line.
Claw machine is awful.
also there are two categories for characters, if you noticed
could it be that "2nd prize characters" are easier to catch? you can look at videos people post to see if this may be the case
Igor I have not checked the videos, but from playing yesterday, I saw a lot of first price characters, namely the chicken and lotus. My first succesful grab was the Lime Chinchilla. I will observe this a bit on the videos.
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theoldmonk i've just analyzed a video from a person i know. read here:
https://forum.partyanimals.com/d/2960-ban-this-person-on-the-forum/7507
as for character categories, it could be that second grade characters are more likely to wake up if you miss all your tries
i'll be recording my own videos, but it will be slower, because i will only use pass coins
It is not gambling but I think FOMO plays a significant role in claw/coin machines, and it can be quite addictive.
This leads to impulsive pulls in hopes of striking it lucky, but often results in a cycle of disappointment and money depletion. Once you start, it feels impossible to stop and developers is aware of that strategy… they know how to capitalize on that, benefiting from that cycle.
to be clear with you: it's "around 7 times", not always 7. from watching other people play, it seems like the last remaining characters take 8 and 9 for the last one. but also some people reported it can be 6. and it seems that on 7th try maybe the claws have tighter grip. still this doesnt affect the price too much and all characters will still be very cheap
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please also dont forget about 2200 nemo bucks new levels give you and another 500 you can purchase just for one dollar from login rewards. 2700 nemo bucks with 20 free coins should be enough to get all 8 characters.
i didnt see anyone say thank you to developers for that, or for new game mode, or for 5 new characters, 3 new skin and everything else you get for free. it is very rude of you to complain about anything now
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Before, yes. I need to be better about communicating my gratitude to the developers (for all the OTHER great stuff they've made). But I think part of the problem is that the devs failed to provide more information about this machine, as there is a decent amount of chance involved.
I believe what's tripped a lot of players (including me) up is that they didn't realize that there's some amount of RNG that decides if you actually get the animal, even if you grab it perfectly. (the supposed invisible wall)
I do wish they had found some kind of more...honest way of profiting, but to be fair they have put a lot of time and effort into a fairly cheap game, so they need to make more money somehow.
Igor but how good you grab only plays a certain role, because there is a chance factor to the game, so even if you grab perfectly, the game can still drop the character, if it was decided you are supposed to lose
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too many people also seems to never have played claw machine in their life and dont know how much it drops. im glad they made it the way it is. the end result is that you still get a character for less than 1000 nemo bucks, so i wouldnt care if it drops it purposely. real claw machine wont be so nice to you
MrJoe I do wish they had found some kind of more...honest way of profiting
let's rephrase it that you wish there was info explaining the probability of winning
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Electram I see, i like the lotus pink animal too. Good luck (maybe with silver coins you will try sometimes)! I could get the persimmon fox, i like it. After that as i followed, played in the event, i got 2-3 silver coins from the event, i used them to grab other few fruit animals, but i couldn't, they slided down out from the claws.
I wasn't so lucky as you; the only one I caught was Papaya Raccoon. I tried 7 times, and no matter how I focused on the Lotus root - it went away!
After that, I went back to Fall Guys, and I don't think I will deal with this specific event anymore... I prefer more transparent transactions to buy skins
It feels more awarded once you win from the claw machine, and it is even unique and new! It's fun to do it even if I go broke on nemobucks. The only problem is when the skin hovers over the opening and looks like it "jumps out." I'm thankful Party Animals has it where the characters jump in after you miss a few times. They even added new levels so it makes it easier to get nemobucks anyways. The claw should not be a problem
Guuys sometimes a animal wakes up and jumps out
Electram Since i caught my top 1 favorite of them, it's the lime lemon chinchilla. 
After it i could get the lotus pink animal too. I had 2 other tries, but i lost them, i couldn't catch any other animal again. Maybe it's random. I hope i could get at least the papaya racoon and the coconut chicken. But i will see it later.
I pulled for the entire collection in around 53 pulls. Once you pull a certain amount without getting an animal, it will "pity" and then the animal will jump out, and you will acquire it (I think it was around 6-8 pulls for me). If you click on the ( i ) in the top right hand corner next to the "LOOSE CHANGE" coins, it shows the prizes which is 8 animals. There are 3 animals as the 1st prize, and then 5 animals as second prize. The ones that will hop out first if you don't get a prize are the 1st prize first. That means most people will pull the Chicken, Chinchilla, and Lotus Root first if they do not get anyone.
I had 2800 nemo bucks in my account, then I bought 2400 more totaling 5200. I also had 10 free pulls from the Battle Pass coins. Each paid pull is 120 nemo bucks. So that was about 43 paid pulls + 10 free ones = 53 pulls and I own all of the animals. 1920
The battle pass has 16 free pulls on it. If it takes you as long as I did, It should cost around 4420 nemo bucks + the 16 free pulls from the battle pass to get the whole collection so that is between $30-40. That's technically around $5 per skin for 8 animals, which isn't bad actually.