Guild Wars 2

First off, I understand that you need something to generate money Anet and that Black Lion Chests/ Special Event Chests are seen as the best way to do it. However, you also seem to have not learned from the Halloween disaster. The community was ablaze with people stating how worthless it was to buy keys, as the drop rates were so low, and how they would never buy keys again. Your solution: add a Special Event chest that didn’t require a key to open. Really? Yes, it’s a gamble. But it’s a gamble that many in the community are tired of losing, and that means you loosing income. There is however a simple fix to this.

First, get rid of these special event chests and go back to using the Black Lion ones. Right now, they’re useless as the event items aren’t in them.

Second, keep the RNG chance of obtaining the special items. However, add in a special event token that has a 100% drop rate and gives out like 5 at a time. These tokens can be taken to a vendor that has all of the special event items for sale priced from 1-100 or something. That way, players who spend a good deal of money on keys and don’t get any drops, can still go to the vendor and buy something for their effort and not feel like they were completely cheated out of their cash. It’ll bring back a lot of people who vowed to never buy keys again, and even entice people, like me, who didn’t buy a single key to begin with because they didn’t want to throw money into a slot machine, to start purchasing keys.

Don’t they have someone from Nexon doing their cash shop? Nexon games are notorious for abusive slotmachine-like cash shops.

Either way, a big random factor is annoying. Don’t treat us like idiots.

TheUnNamedHero.4167:

First off, I understand that you need something to generate money Anet and that Black Lion Chests/ Special Event Chests are seen as the best way to do it. However, you also seem to have not learned from the Halloween disaster. The community was ablaze with people stating how worthless it was to buy keys, as the drop rates were so low, and how they would never buy keys again. Your solution: add a Special Event chest that didn’t require a key to open. Really? Yes, it’s a gamble. But it’s a gamble that many in the community are tired of losing, and that means you loosing income. There is however a simple fix to this.

First, get rid of these special event chests and go back to using the Black Lion ones. Right now, they’re useless as the event items aren’t in them.

Second, keep the RNG chance of obtaining the special items. However, add in a special event token that has a 100% drop rate and gives out like 5 at a time. These tokens can be taken to a vendor that has all of the special event items for sale priced from 1-100 or something. That way, players who spend a good deal of money on keys and don’t get any drops, can still go to the vendor and buy something for their effort and not feel like they were completely cheated out of their cash. It’ll bring back a lot of people who vowed to never buy keys again, and even entice people, like me, who didn’t buy a single key to begin with because they didn’t want to throw money into a slot machine, to start purchasing keys.

The thing is, this would lead to people counting the amount of chests they need to buy to get whatever they want from the exchange.

At which point ANet would be better off just putting the event stuff in the Gem store in the first place.

As for the crappy odds, there’s a good reason for it. Chests can be bought with Gems, the skins can be sold for Gold. Obviously, it needs to be so that buying Chests, opening them and selling the contents on the TP yields at most the same amount of Gold as you would get from selling it at the exchange. The opposite is also true: the odds need to be low enough to make it impossible for people to buy Gems with Gold, use those Gems to buy Chests, open them, sell the contents on TP and come out with a consistent profit.

And the only way to make sure that it’s inconsistent at any point is to make the odds low.