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The fact remains that the only way to get tickets is via chests. Putting value on other items in the chest does not change the fact x amount of chests must be opened to acquire enough tickets to purchase a bl claim ticket weapon.
It is also worth pointing out that a skin in a MMO is a completely different beast compared to a skin in a very controlled and limited game.
That is why i compared them based on work done, which is the only thing comparable.
My suggestion to them is to make black lion tickets purchasable with gems. 1 ticket would go for somewhere between $5-10. If all weapons are reduced to 1 ticket then i think $10-15 is reasonable. However $25 is too much for a weapon skin.
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I hate to do this but lets compare this to league of legends. When pulsefire ezreal came out he was around $25 dollars. Lets compare the work put into pulsefire ezreal compared to a ticket weapon. Ticket weapons have special effects, some have sound effects. Pulsefire ezreal has completely redone sounds, all of his abilities have been reworked visually, he has 3 stages where he changes visually. Does 20 dollars sound like a reasonable price point when compared to pulsefire ezreal?
Lets do some math based on samples from gw2wiki (which are not very good samples i realize, but other websites have given similar percentages). The drop rate for ticket scraps is 30%, the drop rate for tickets is 2%. At 10 scraps per ticket this is either a 50% cumulative drop rate on scraps, or a 5% drop rate on tickets. So now lets assume someone wants to acquire a 5 ticket item. 5 tickets at a 5% drop rate is 20×5 = 100 keys. 100 keys at 25keys/2100 gems is 8400 gems. 8400 gems at 80 gems per dollar is $105. This is of course on average.
tl;dr: 1, 5 ticket weapon skin = $105, 1, 1 ticket weapon skin = $21
That is incredibly rediculous.
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