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3 Mystery Box minis: 5200 gems/65$ (average)

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The gem store team is trying things out to find a nice balance, it seems. Halloween the only pets were the Miniature Spooky Trio + Chainsaw Skeleton, which were all account bound because they could only come from the gem store. Lost Shores brought about the two karkas and the reef drake and they were tradable since they came from both a Consortium Chest and (supposedly) as a very rare drop from the karka mobs.

Wintersday we have five in-game obtainable pets of which we can only claim two (well, three now) and the four Mystery Wintersday Box pets. All of these pets are account bound.

Looking at just these three options, I’d guess some combination of all three would be good (if they add 9 pets or so like they did for Wintersday). If it’s like Foostivoo or Chainsaw, then the Halloween method is best for that. The rest of them are okay if delivered either like in Lost Shores (boxes or grindable, able to sell on Trading Post) or for the five toys (do event dungeons to obtain materials to craft a few of them, buy the rest).

Miniature Wintersday Trio being added?

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That item was in the database before Wintersday fully kicked off. It will end up much like the Lost Shores trio box and never be used. It was most likely put in there before the gem store team had finalized how they wanted everything to be obtained.

I feel cheated

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Ah have not been in since Thursday so will have to.

Yeah it kind of sprang up out of nowhere but was expected since not everyone could get the Tixx chest reward in Lion’s Arch.

It should be noted that all the mini pets (both the cash shop and in-game ones) were not done by the team that did Wintersday (which is the same team from Halloween). The method of acquisition was 100% decided by the team that manages the gem store. The two of five post that is quoted a lot when it comes up is what he was told would be the final result of it at the time.

I feel cheated

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How do you feel cheated exactly? There’s only 200 extra cogs given and that’s because of those who lost cogs due to diminishing returns in the dungeon. You can still ONLY craft 2 minis, not 3. So I fail to see how you or anyone got cheated in this.

Patch up and log in, a second compensation was sent out last night that gave 250 cogs along with the PvE and PvP rewards from the Tixx chest, as a surefire way to make sure people got the rewards.

What to do with these leftover cogs?

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I honestly don’t believe we were suppose to get the extra cogs. But, when the chest and the events cheated some players, I believe this action was to fix that situation.

So, at the time, the GM spoke the truth. But, later circumstances required the additional cogs.

Yeah from what I’ve seen we were truly only originally intended to have two of the five minis. The interview before the stop in Lion’s Arch and in-game chatter supported that. That is why the planned compensation was only 200 cogs, for anyone who was hit by diminishing returns the first two stops, and not 250 cogs. Anyone can look at that giant thread about the chest and saw how that turned out so a second compensation was required so that those people who haven’t been able to get their necessary cogs can at least make their two minis.

It’s always a good idea to be cautious with your money during events if it’s the very first time it has ever happened. Unless you know with certainty that what it is you are about to purchase has been around already and is safe.

Drop rate not what I thought it was

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It’s something that Korean/Japanese/Mobile gaming companies do. It works because of the “whales” that must have every single item and possess the disposable income to do so.

Earlier in the year it was determined that something known as Complete Gacha (which is different from regular Gacha) was illegal in Japan. A Complete Gacha is where you have to obtain either the entire gacha collection or certain parts of a “set” in order to win a grand prize that you can’t obtain otherwise. The Japanese mobile gaming industry felt like they were going to be dealt a crushing blow (upwards to 20% net profits lost from having to cease that sort of stuff) but they seem to have survived just fine with the regular gacha.

I would have found it interesting if they had done to the minis what they did to the weapon skins (let them be buyable flat out, make a ticket to redeem for one of your choosing from the box if you think you are lucky).

Thank you for the extra cogs, but...

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I think after like 1700 or so boxes I’ve only seen two drops of the glue, which came as a stack of 25.

What was the point?

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Exactly. You know nexon is behind this afterall they did buy a share of ncsoft

Eh. Sure Nexon is the largest shareholder at a little under 15% but NCSoft has done some similar things on their own in Korea. The initial refusal to divulge payout percentages from random-item boxes to determine if the Korean business model was legal or not comes to mind.

What was the point?

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It would have been kind of interesting if they had put each of those minis available for purchase (like the weapon skins) and from the box itself you could get a ticket to redeem for any one of those four.

Drop rate not what I thought it was

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I’ve spent some money on the Gem Store. I prefer to buy things that are a benefit (like bank tabs or char slots). I also try to convert gold to gems if I can. I’ve only grabbed 20 of the Wintersday boxes (out of every box ever offered til now) and didn’t get any minis or weapon skins from them. I won’t lie and say I haven’t thought about trying more but I know better.

What was the point?

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Actually, I found myself thinking a lot of times if the chest gambling as it is now is not considered illegal gambling under most of western countries laws. To carry out this type of activity (exchanging real money for a complete random prize with very low reward probability) requires special licensing.

Their lawyers looked it over a ton and made sure it was acceptable. This particular system is used in Nexon and other games from Korean companies and they were given the OK then.

Well, maybe the mini pets might be bad. Not sure really. Might classify as a Complete Gacha.

Mystical Cogs

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So I’m a little concerned this could be viewed as an exploit? I mean, was this mail a fix for those that didn’t get the reward from Tixx, and some of us now have double Tixx reward? Or was it intended for us all to have 450 cogs?

It was the only way to make sure people got the rewards from Tixx.

Bought Minis??

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I guess you could have predicted something like that would happen because people were mentioning they couldn’t get rewards from the chest.

If they couldn’t loot the chest the only other option would have been to send a mail to everyone.

Bought Minis??

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So I purchased gems to get all the Tixxs’ Mini’s then later there is an update and I can now craft another in game. This seems unfair to anyone that made the purchase from the gem store.

You can craft another one? As in, more than 2 toys? Please explain. >.>

The only extra cogs I’ve received were the 200 ones from the chest, and you need 250. Where did you find these extra 50 cogs? O.o

A piece of mail was just sent out to everyone that contained 250 cogs and all the other stuff from Tixx for both PvE and PvP.

Mystical Cogs

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Well, the Tixx thing was for people who had diminishing returns and were bugged. Thing is, Tixx also bugged out for those same people (and some others who weren’t hit by it).

Does Giant Wintersday Gift drop Foostivoo?

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Your answer is here, apparently: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Talk:Giant_Wintersday_Gift/drop_rate

It’s most likely only going to come from the gem store boxes.

3 Mystery Box minis: 5200 gems/65$ (average)

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I opened $20 worth of these lolboxes on the 15th (so, 20 boxes).

I have 10 Reindeer Tonics, 6 Snowman Tonics, 12 Festive Golem Tonics, and 10 Winter Warband Festive Mortars.

As much as I can remember they always came in a stack of two. That would make 19 boxes, the missing 20th item was a Wintersday Dye Kit.

Wad of Enchanted Stuffing

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I really don’t get why we have left over cogs though…unless they’re going to be usable next year? Or were they just added as replacements for people whose rewards were bugged for some reason…?

Yes, they were slipped in with the one-time Tixx reward as compensation for anyone who had diminishing returns for the two days it was in effect because of the bug. It was mentioned in an interview that can be found on YouTube by MMORPG.

Major Mini Issues

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Yes, I admit, that is a little over the top. I actually posted on this yesterday at least twice on this subject but it seems at least one of the posts was deleted for no reason, like most posts that make a decent point on these forums…

But basically, I’m okay with the RNG, but I believe all RNG needs to have a certain threshold, a place where a line is drawn where you will get what you want. For example, last night I suggested that we make 75 ‘X transformation tonic’ able to be crafted in to an ‘Endless X Transformation Tonic’, this would basically put a threshold on crafting the endless transformation tonics. You get three temporary tonics for each attempt, which would mean that if you fail 25 times you can just craft it outright with the junk it has given you, but if you get it sooner than that then that’s great too.

You sir at least have brains! Credit for that, and excellent suggestion. This is the stuff that makes things like RNG bearable. I’d still not be a fan of it – But I wouldn’t complain either. Call it common ground. The problem about RNG is.. Well, take the minipets again, i could potentially buy 10 chests for 800 gems and get all the minis including Foostivoo. But I could also spend 200$ and still not have the 3 other minipets. It is highly unlikely – But it is still a scenario. Putting a worst case scenario on things like the endless tonic helps in the way that we KNOW it can’t get worse than 25 attempts. It’s kitten expensive, but still. We know we don’t have to try 26 times.

I saw this done in a Korean game. If you had attempted to get the rare 99 times and failed, your 100th attempt would be 100% successful (as a one time offer). If you managed to get it before 99 tries, the counter reset. There were some concerns because of the money cost involved, but there were a lot of in-game alternatives to getting the item needed to try for the rare and the system really could only be improved.

That particular system wouldn’t really work in GW2 though as it is.

Major Mini Issues

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Welcome to NCsoft games. If you want to know what I think, Id say it will only get worse.

GW1 was an NCsoft game and it was never this bad. They had a cash shop, but it was always straight sales. Any RNG items were obtained for free in-game.

Sadly I doubt the situation here will change unless and until people stop buying those stupid boxes.

I always viewed GW1 as the black sheep of the NCSoft family of games. It had a cash shop but it was straight sales and nothing completely game breaking (outside of I guess the Mercenary Pack, but that was when it was already dying and mostly for people who didn’t want to group).

I imagine there are some people now that are shouting how right they are that they called this happening during the betas when someone found out that a person from Nexon was in charge of the cash shop.

The only thing we can really hope for is that they take the community’s feedback into consideration for the next event cash shop update. You can buy the weapon skins this time around and you can also get a redemption ticket from the lolbox for a skin of your choice. It’s a chance you are taking but it gives you the option of choosing which monetary action you want to go for. I wouldn’t mind if they gave that same option for the minis.

50$ in gems later...

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I actually think those items were user submitted, if you look at the icon it’s still the Halloween “mini-pet trio.”

That’s just how it ended up, the item was data mined during the big patch on the 14th so it doesn’t mean it was finalized just that it existed.

Kind of like how all the makeover kits and contracts were added to the database on October 8th but they were slowly rolled out instead of added right then and there.

50$ in gems later...

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I’m just hoping that they’ll put a Winterday “mini-pet trio” in the gem store before January 3rd.

Well the item exists in the database. However it will probably end up in the same situation as the Lost Shores minis (which also has a mini-pet trio in the database) and will not be added because it would have a pretty big backlash.

They would be better off removing the account bound property from them if they were going to do anything at all.

Wad of Enchanted Stuffing

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You probably have better odds on getting one of the weapon skins.

200 Cogs?

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It was the compensation for anyone who was hit by diminishing returns for the first two stops of the Infininarium. This way they can make their two pets but no one can make a third.

From the interview here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2xfliD6QGQ&t=36m5s

Speaking to Tixx gives a title point?

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It could be intentional for a 12th point if you managed to miss all of the previous stops.

Only 200 magic coggs from tixx in LA ?

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The 200 Mystical Cogs were in the chest as compensation for people who got hit by diminishing returns in the dungeon.

From the interview here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2xfliD6QGQ&t=36m5s