Wah.
I wouldn't mind having the loot options back, but I think you just had some bad luck.

What if everyone in the party got a copy of the drops?

EX:
Item "K" drops
party member C picks it up
party members A,B,C, and D all get one of item "K"

ofc. this will prob. cause some trouble somewhere like flooding the market with mats or something.
In which case they can increase mats required for crafting or something.

Items are given randomly. You just got unlucky. I've had FSC runs where the best I've gotten are Blighted Bones and Blaze Peppers (which drop like candy in that area) and the other 2 people got two 5* mats each... on the other hand I've been in a party of 4 and I got all 3 of the 5* mats that dropped. It is completely random, just tell your friend congrats and go on another run.

~Gwen

People often think they see patterns in randomness. In order to have a viable complaint, you must collect data and then show that what you have collected is far outside of what one might reasonably expect from a random drop system.

In order to do this, you have to track who gets every single drop, every single time you group. The end of the run summary isn't good enough, as it could include drops that occurred when you weren't there, unless everyone in your group joins at the same time and stays for the entire run. But this isn't practical, as you don't know that people are going to stay for the entire run. Alternatively, you could consider only the drops that occur while you are there but you have to track and record every single drop. Furthermore, you must do this for many runs, and add up all of the results, as one run is unlikely to give significant results by itself. In addition, if the size of your party ever varies, then you must track exactly how many party members were present for each drop.

If you want to be able to sometimes group without tracking loot, but still collect valid data, then you have to decide whether or not you're going to track loot for that run before the run starts. You cannot get halfway through and then decide whether loot counts for that run or not. You cannot have it vague in your mind so that you could after the fact think that you had decided either way. Someone with a sufficiently rigorous mind may be able to just think to himself, this one is going to count toward my tally. Most people can't do that, though (even most people who think they can, can't), and it would probably be better to write it down on a piece of paper, yes, this one is going to count, before the run starts, so that you can't weasel out of it later.

Furthermore, you have to catch and record every single loot drop. You could restrict to particular types of loot, such as four star and above, but only if you're absolutely flawless in knowing exactly which drops are how many stars. Being right 9 times out of 10 is not good enough; indeed, that's bad enough to make your results completely meaningless. 99 times out of 100 isn't good enough either. You have to be exactly right every single time, and most people are incapable of doing this except by tracking every single drop.

Next, you're going to have to stop frequently to write down the tally. This is a major pain. But you have to track every single thing. If you forget to write down 1 item in 10 that drops, and only get 9 out of 10, then your results are meaningless. Once you decide that you're going to track loot, you have to get every single drop for the duration of that run, even if you lag and get disconnected, get kicked from the group, or have the game or your computer crash. That means that you can't let drops accumulate for several minutes and then tally them later. You'll probably need the acquiescence of everyone else you group with to let you constantly stop and tally loot.

Most people are simply incapable of the detail necessary to track the data properly. No particular step is hard, but doing it every single time is hard to remember. Most people just don't have the personality for it. But without hard data on the drops, there is no reason whatsoever to believe that there is anything wrong with the drop system randomizing loot. It's probably just your perception.

The reason it is necessary to track it every single time is that otherwise, you'll systematically bias your results. When a run gives you favorable luck with drops, you'll think nothing of it, but when you get disfavorable luck, you'll be upset, remember your project to gather data, and record it. It's like trying to determine whether a coin is fair, tossing it a bunch of times, and recording the results 90% of the time when it comes up heads, and only 80% of the time when it comes up tails. You'll end up concluding that the coin comes up heads more often than tails, and by a statistically significant margin, but it will be because you goofed in your data collection. You would reach the same conclusion for a fair coin.

Fair enough, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt again, I wish you luck in your travels for figuring out where the weakness in their "random" is if true. I've never encountered anything like that so I can't help you.

The simplest and most obvious explanation is that OOO created the drop tables to distribute loot to everyone except for accounts named "telastyn"