Guild Wars 2

WOW What a freackin ripoff!!! I guess the saying is true , there really is a sucker born every minute and you are a reading a post by one. I can’t believe i wasted 10 dollars on a 3 chests full of Crapola….

Anet in my opinion filling these chests with garbage is really not the way to get people to continue spending real money on these kinds of things. I feel robbed!

O well, I do really enjoy this game so I tell myself the 10 bucks WASTED went to a somewhat good cause of supporting this very awesome game and the people you employ….

Sir, have you ever bought lottery tickets?

Hehe that’s exactly what they are. Never buy silly chests.
Unfortunately I’m still silly enough to buy lottery tickets though! ;p

Ursan.7846:

Sir, have you ever bought lottery tickets?

THIS.

Star Trek Online (lock boxes) and Star Wars TOR have this too. Welcome to the Asian MMO standards invasion. YAY?!

hahahahah people buy them at these crazy prices? lolz every chest they add i completely ignore and NEVER feel rippedoff.

Funny… i know exactly what you feel. I was hoping to get cool stuff in there. Instead i got a light armor skin, passion fruit, shell and one more item i forgot use for crafting. That’s for 250 Gems.

And what’s crazy about it is that, the same skin i was able to get as a loot at the cove!!! HOW COOL IS THAT?

I never complained coz its my choice to bought that one. But then i saw your post which made me feel that i am buying expensive things at the gem store only to get this kind of stuff. Somehow i feel cheated.

Thunderstruck.5368:

WOW What a freackin ripoff!!! I guess the saying is true , there really is a sucker born every minute and you are a reading a post by one. I can’t believe i wasted 10 dollars on a 3 chests full of Crapola….

Anet in my opinion filling these chests with garbage is really not the way to get people to continue spending real money on these kinds of things. I feel robbed!

O well, I do really enjoy this game so I tell myself the 10 bucks WASTED went to a somewhat good cause of supporting this very awesome game and the people you employ….

I totally agree. You can buy the “common” chests from the gem store or at the trade post, and those are usually filled at least with something useful. These chests however are full of useless junk. As a special chest, different from what is already offered and costs more should contain something useful.

I don’t understand why Anet wouldn’t fill these chests with goodies . At least increase the odds of a mini pet at a 1/2 ratio. They are burning themselves by taking the customer like this. I understand the concept of a “Lottery ticket” or “gambling” but in my opinion, from a business standpoint its a poor move to loads these chests with crap with such a poor “jackpot” ratio so to speak.

You figure 10 bucks gets you 3 chests , It should be a 1/3 ratio on the mini pets at the very least. Hell, a 1 dollar scratch off lottery ticket gives you these odds and that for 1 buck lol.

I got Mini Karka Hatchlings from the third chest.

I agree that they were filled with garbage. I don’t think i’ll be buying the seasonal “chests” anymore. Other stuff maybe; but not the chests.

They never said you were going to get a great item. They literally said there would be a chance of skins and even more of a rare chance to get a mini. They even had the chest contents posted on the wiki with the patch. If you aren’t going to be smart with your money then you have no right to moan and groan about what you don’t get. Do a little bit of research before you buy.

Well after spending enough gems to get 10 chests and realizing later that I could have sold those gems and made the chests at a cheaper cost I was pretty disappointed, I got some shoulder skins (which IMO sucked) and some breathing mask skins (and I don’t look at my face underwater) as well as a bunch of fairly useless crafting materials… 10 chests and nothing worth the real money I spent on them, I probably won’t buy any more of these special chests unless ANet realizes that they need to put good stuff in them to justify the cost.

Oh and to the analogy of gambling, you never win in the long term as it’s designed to take your money away without reward, so unless you are saying ANet is deliberately taking our money with out proper compensation it’s not gambling… even though (based on the value of these chests) that’s what the are doing.

Joseph Skyrim.2470:

Hehe that’s exactly what they are. Never buy silly chests.
Unfortunately I’m still silly enough to buy lottery tickets though! ;p

jejeje you’re not the only one on that boat

they really should make it more worth while for the chests, they would make more money that way…

That’s why you never should buy any chests in the gem store and save some nerves and money ^^

I got a few thousand gems-(kids bought me a gem card)-but nothing there that I see that I want to spend them on. I converted some to gold to use in the TP. After reading about the mediocre contents- I won’t but the black lion keys either. Most of the stuff seems like window dressing and cosmetic or is restictricted (limited use as well as limited usage). Let me buy a 50 slot backpack or the a permanent trading and bank access. etc.
Other MMOs have useful stuff that you can buy and use in the game.

I bought one and that was it, Halloween was the first and only venture into opening chests and bags. I notice how they have the stack of 10 you can buy. Never again am I opening chests other than one to say that I at least tried it.

CharrGirl.7896:

That’s why you never should buy any chests in the gem store and save some nerves and money ^^

And send the message we shall not put up with this Chest Non-Sense. Maybe they’ll get the message, hire someone else to be in charge of store.

Honestly no clue how GW2 is making any money off their store at the moment, I feel like I wasted time looking at it usually.