For multiple weeks we have seen endless whining about how "Bungie lied" or "Xur isn't random, I'm done."
Well those people are wrong.
Guess what? Xur's inventory can still be random and pre-determined. Let me explain.
I have a 24 sided dice. Let's say every week at my store I have a set of 24 items all labeled with a number. Now, I could roll the dice every week, for 24 weeks, to pick the number, and thats what I sell. Or, at the beginning, I could roll the dice 24 times and just record the numbers and sell the items in the order the numbers were rolled.
No matter if I did it once a week separately, or all at the beginning, I could still end up with multiple repeats of the same number. Random is random.
And just because someone data-mined the info doesn't mean it isn't random. Discovery of previously randomized, pre-rolled data does not make it any less random.
This is no different with Xur. Can we all accept this and move on?
And to be clear, I understand that Bungie has the ability to change Xur's inventory at any given time.
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A benefit to doing it before-hand is that you can edit it if you need to. If it was random every week, there's a decent chance it could never sell a particular item for years, and they could remedy that if they felt like it. As for the people who have a terrible grasp on statistics and think certain things repeating or not appearing proves it's manufactured, it's not worth explaining to someone that dumb, let their stats teacher when they finally make it to high school spend a couple weeks trying to teach them to wrap their head around it.