Guild Wars 2

dukefx.9730:

… I didn’t find the supposedly “free” devil horns either.

Those are on the gem store, for free, gotta look there =)

theeagleeye.7693:

Sigh. Another rant thread. It’s like someone buying 20 lottery tickets, and asking for a refund because they were under the impression that it’s a guaranteed win.

But the point is that ANet needs money to run this game. We do not pay a subscription fee, so they should offer us things we WANT to buy. Having a drop-rate so low that people toss out 20, 30, 50 USD on keys and not get anything is a lose-lose situation. They get nothing good, ANet wont get them as customers again, we all lose because with less money there is less development in the game. If it’s more common to get a skin people spend more, and are more likely to spend money in the future, aka ANet gets more money and we all get a game that stays well funded and being developed.

Solution: Make the keys cheaper. Instead of 5 for 450 sell 10 for 400. At the time of this post there are 570,195 black lion chests for sale on the TP. 10 copper is the lowest and most common price, even during the Halloween event. Or have a repeatable quest / event where people get 1 key for 5 minutes of work. Have them as drops (1-2 per session) in dungeons, give people actually a reason to open a chest now or then, get something good, then ACTUALLY buy keys to get more.

Just handing out 1 key for specific storyline quests is not enough to hook people on gambling. Every supplier of gambling knows that =)

Also spent 20 Euro on the market, bought keys, had some left, opened 36 chests, my bank is now filled with black lion tools…

I really wish these chests had more useful stuff, even normal skins on normal days, so it would feel more like a lottery instead of just “pay less and have a chance to get a random cashshop item instead of paying for it directly”. And yeah, I am disappointed I have not gotten a skin, probably not gonna bother with the chests anymore. I love GW2, but I feel like giving money away is like giving it to a charity, as barely anything is actually worth spending money on. The Cook’s Outfit I loved, the additional skills, animations, the look, tradable to other chars on your account… Love it, the chests? Imho a failure, sorry.