Guild Wars 2

Everyone saying this whole lottery crap doesn’t understand what they are saying.

Atleast with some lotteries there are PHYSICAL numbers being rolled around in the cage to be hand picked by someone and chosen a winner. This randomly programmed garbage that Anet is shoveling out IS NOT A LOTTERY.

Please stop calling this a lottery, I would feel better about these chests if it truly was based on luck or random chance, but it’s not. It’s been programmed by a bunch of wigs that don’t want the odds in your favor and certainly don’t want them to be handed out to everyone, for reasons that i don’t need to explain.

Playing this so called “lottery” everyone keeps talking about is about as stupid as playing online poker with real money and trying to keep it honest by only using one computer… while all the other players are simply bots that only have 1 motivation, to keep you from winning.

So, if you believe that there is an island out there just for special little you, and there is a “lottery” every night that chooses one of you to go there.. don’t get mad when you are woken up and they are cutting open your “chest” to retrieve organs for someone more important than you.

Ok.

It’s not a lottery.

It’s a chance – a slim chance using RNG. Say, you got 1 out of 1000 chance to get what you want (I am assuming a Precursor) – so, the odds aren’t in your favor – which is designed that way.

Slim chance = by game design, the way it should be. Stop whining.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/lottery
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lottery
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lottery
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/lottery

For some reason the word CHANCE appears in each of the above links.

Should I elaborate?

Are we talking about the Chests in the Gem Store, or are we talking about the reward chest players got to open if they didn’t disconnect in Phase 3? I’m going to assume the former.

No, I wouldn’t call it a “lottery.” It’s a “gacha.” It’s a selling mechanic that’s been particularly popular in Japan.

This is an illustrate example of a gacha system that uses the “bingo” mechanic as well, in which you need to obtain certain infrequent items to trade in for an (obviously) even more exclusive item.
http://cdn.thenextweb.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2012/05/gacha.jpg

Here’s the article that the image is from:
http://thenextweb.com/asia/2012/05/06/japans-mobile-gaming-industry-faces-a-ban-on-lucrative-kompu-gacha-games/

Japan’s been taking action against this style of “business.” Companies have lost a lot of money because of this. TinierMe, a social community run by the Japanese company Gcrest, has announced closure because it has relied on the Gacha mechanic for years.

I know for sure that Nexon uses Gachas a lot. The difference is that a lot of their exclusive availalbe-for-a-limited-time-only content is also direct purchase. Players who play Nexon games may avoid Gachas, which have been proven to yield poor results, but are still willing to spend $10-30 every time something exclusive is available for direct purchase. Nexon’s also a Korean company, so yeah.

EDIT: By the way, some people still waste $50-200 each time Nexon releases a new one-week-only Gacha or whatnot. One of the main differences is that a lot of the items, even if they’re not the super rare ones, can still be sold for a fair amount (sometimes at a loss) to other players in-game.