Guild Wars 2

Based on the amount of negativity I’ve been seeing recently about the Black Lion Chest contents and their inherent drop rates, I came up with an idea in another thread that I felt may deserve its own discussion.

What if ArenaNet instituted a survey in-game after you opened a Black Lion Chest that asked you to rate each of the possible items that could come out of it based on the perceived usefulness of that item?

I don’t know if they’d want to do this or not because they’d have to tell you what you can possibly get out of the chest, but in cases of special items, they could group things together like “weapon skins”, “armor skins”, or “holiday items”. Maybe just some general categories like “boosters”.

This way, the community could participate in providing feedback to ArenaNet regarding something that is surrounded by SO much negativity at the moment and if they feel like changes should be made, they’ve got data to back up their decisions.

Players were asked to take in-game surveys during the beta weekend to rate how they felt an event or quest was. A survey about these chests could be similar.

If you open a chest, you’re presented with a survey that you can choose to take, or not. Once you take the survey, you won’t be presented with it again. You can also choose to “cancel” the survey to take at a later time. The last option would be to “decline” taking the survey. Only in the case of “cancelling” it would you be presented with the option of taking the survey the next time you open a chest.

Does anyone think this would be useful? Does anyone have suggestions to make this idea better?

Keep in mind that it will most likely need to be a very simple survey in order for people to take the time to do it and for ArenaNet to gather the results and present the data to their design teams. For example, ratings from 1 to 10 where 1 is not useful at all and 10 being extremely useful.

I don’t know, but it does sound like a great idea. But I think the negativity on these items is that the chest are dropped so often, but the only way to get the keys for them is doing the personal storyline or buying them. I hear people getting the keys from loot, but the odds seem pretty low. While chest are easier to obtain from loot. Heck, I even have 7 chest right now and thats still growing.

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I don’t know, but it does sound like a great idea. But I think the negativity on these items is that the chest are dropped so often, but the only way to get the keys for them is doing the personal storyline or buying them. I hear people getting the keys from loot, but the odds seem pretty low. While chest are easier to obtain from loot. Heck, I even have 7 chest right now and thats still growing.

That’s kind of what I’m getting at with the survey.

Maybe it needs to have 2 ratings per item….the perceived usefulness…..and the perceived chance to receive the item upon opening.

Usefulness: Rating between 1 and 10 (1 = low, 10 = high)
% Chance: Rating between 1 and 10 (1 = too low, 10 = too high)

Ratings of 1 to 5 would probably be sufficient as my guess would be that many players are going to peg their ratings at the extremes anyway.

The combination of those two ratings should tell ArenaNet which items the players want most and possibly how to adjust their drops rates.

I’ve opened alot of them chests and never gotten anything too terribly important. I just focus on other things, as the things i’ve gotten are only marginal at best.

Ya, a lot of crud loots from the black lion chests, would be nice if all of them were at least garaunteed to get you something decent, the last one I opened had about 3s worth of anything, which isnt the most horrid thing but for people that actually buy the keys with the gems, that would suck.