I don’t remember if i ever posted on this forum, i’m an avid lurker btw, and playing the game since 2 weeks after headstart, took some breaks from it, but overall it’s been worth my money.
I’m one of those unlucky guys that opened over 100k bags and didnt see this kitten pet drop, and i don’t want to look like a whiny kid that didnt get his most wanted toy, but this is totally ridicolous.
I can understand the recycled content, i’m ok with that, halloween is my favourite seasonal for the scenery, the feeling of running around in a darker LA or the pvp lobby. Someone posted in another thread about the devaluation of the older rewards aka prince pet and carlotta, but that was a step in the right direction imo, even if the older price was still not so crazy.
Two interesting things have been added anyway compared to last year, the new amulets and gwyn. Let’s not talk about the idiocy of adding the necklace AS EXOTICS ONLY, and with preset stats, when pretty much everyone can get his ascended amulet in a couple of weeks of dailies.
Let’s talk about the ridicolous drop rate of both.
On my 100k+ bags i found about 20kittens, 1 gift of the moon, 1 endless bat tonic, 6 endless halloween tonics, and a lot of recipes.
Now, i’m not angry because i didnt find a single necklace. One day i might still buy the jewel from the TP for a stupid high amoun of gold, and i’m fine with it. I’m fine with grinding for something i know i can acquire one way or another.
I’m not angry for the money i wasted. Money comes easy with playing the game.
What i cant tolerate it’s the insulting low drop rate of an account bound pet that cannot be acquired in any other way than opening bags that can be acquired for a short time span.
Someone posted before than the average over the small sample of datas we have is 1 gwyn over 82k bags opened.
I farmed some lab too during these days, and an average good run awards about 150 bags (not counting the additional rewards of viscount/lich daily chests). So the average lucky person, to have the average chance to get his wanted reward, will have to farm bags pretty much 24h x 10 days. Ofc bags will stay even after the event, for a price that will be most likely high. Im not the guy that WANTS IT NOW AND MUST HAVE IT NOW. I’m the guy that WANTS IT, and works towards it, juggling life, works and hobbies.
I’m fine with terrible RNG coupled with the TP chances to get what i want. I own 6 legendaries, and got all my precursors with forging over those 2 years. Some took a lot more tries than others, but i knew that if i wanted i could still stop gambling and took the TP road. I bought gems during those 2 years, most of the times to buy some cosmetics, very few to convert to golds, but never to gamble.
Hiding rewards under terrible drop rates is a bad way to entertain a player base, and i hope Anet understand this sooner or later. And it’s also a terrible way to sell gems, that looks like the only important thing for this company, considering how little is been added into the game (dont fool me with some minor changes that should have been into a 2012 mmorpg since the headstart) or FIXED. Most of the new content is gemstore content, and it’s ok untill you can convert gold to gems. The conversion change they tried to impose started a s**tstorm so big over the web they had to retreat quickly, but still the direction the game has taken is really not promising
eidt:sorry for any grammar mistake, english is not my mother tongue
(edited by Zakx.3824)