Guild Wars 2

Make two types of boxes for each holiday event.

Make one include 0% chance of a skin but a 100% chance for a token where 100 of them can be exchanged for a weapon skin.

This keeps RNG which (apparently) is the key to the game surviving. But gives people the ability to spend a large amount of money to guarantee getting the item.

Good idea!
I agree

10 boxes = 1200 gems
100 boxes = 12000 gems = $150

Do you really expect people to consider 12000 gems to be a fair price for a skin? Or will they come to the forums and complain that their only choices are pay $150 or play the RNG lottery, and either way Anet is ripping them off?

This has potential.

Each box would contain 1 token and each weapon/mini/unique item would have a vendor with a price of X tokens.

This way you may get lucky and receive the weapon ticket or mini before the cost of the tokens but if you had bad luck you would still be able to get the item you wanted after X box purchases.

Another way would be to change the boxes to just give tokens, a random amount between 1-5. Add a vendor to trade these tokens for anything which would of been in these boxes this way you wont end up getting doubles of account bound items while getting none of the others(wintersday minis).

Could cut the middle man out, keep the current system
Add a token exchange vendor for the ticket
Tokens drop from mobs related to the holiday zones at a Blue-Green level rarity rate
250 tokens = 1 ticket

in this case. all foes will have a fair chance to drop a token

so now you have 2 choices
Gems for boxes for tickets
Farm Tokens for tickets

The Lazy Way
The time consuming way

tolunart.2095:

10 boxes = 1200 gems
100 boxes = 12000 gems = $150

Do you really expect people to consider 12000 gems to be a fair price for a skin? Or will they come to the forums and complain that their only choices are pay $150 or play the RNG lottery, and either way Anet is ripping them off?

People are currently paying $150 dollars for the skin. It’s just that only 1 person out of 150 is actually getting the skin and 149 people are walking away with nothing.

So yes, I assume some will pay for it. If not then the price point shouldn’t be $150, under either system.