It’s NEVER fun to lose hard earned money that you worked for in real life.
This, pretty much, sums up what I was going to say. The point many people are trying to make here isn’t that “oh no we want the skins wah” but rather “I just wasted $x thinking I had a fair shot at these”. It’s the wasted money that’s the problem. And the wasted money is caused by the low odds, hence the complaints about the low odds. If keys weren’t gem shop items I personally wouldn’t care about the odds, since there’d be no waste of real money involved.
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There is the fault right there, most of the people complaining “assumed” it. Not sure how people “assumed” it was going to be some high % of chance.
The same way some people assumed it was going to be a low % – they just guessed based on what they were hoping for since no concrete information was given. You can’t really blame people for guessing wrong when there was no factual information anywhere. Now, if people had misread or refused to read something somewhere (or there were past events with similarly low chances), then sure, it’d be their fault for assuming instead of checking the facts – as it is, though, people guessed because they had to guess.
To be honest, I’d have a hard time being respectful if I’d just dropped a lot of money on chests hoping to get at least one item since no odds were ever mentioned anywhere.
As for “it’s just luck” and “nobody made you buy keys”, there’s a big difference between going in knowing the odds are abysmal, and going in thinking chances are you’ll at least get an item or two. You can’t blame people for assuming best case scenario when the odds themselves were never revealed and the items were never implied to be rare. People have a right to be incensed when they feel they’ve been deceived.
I’m really glad I didn’t buy any keys if this is the type of response the moderation has to offer to what is obviously a problem of the odds being way too low. I’ve bought the cash shop skins and I don’t regret it, but that’s because I actually got what I paid for. I had assumed the chance would’ve been better, too, and I considered getting keys. I can fully understand the people who are saying their experience has been ruined by dumping money on, essentially, nothing – mine would’ve been, too.
You should really consider being more forward with the actual odds of getting something. That way, people know what they’re getting into ahead of time. “A chance” is too vague – 90% is a chance and so is 0.01%.
First door I ran into had nothing and the second had the endless spawns. Didn’t know they weren’t supposed to be endless so I stayed around a while until someone talked about exploiting, waiting for a boss to come out or something. Something should be done ASAP because with the frequent candy/bag drops it could really break the event for everyone.
I agree with this. One restart a day would really help minimize the issue with stuck events while it isn’t fixed.
It was fixed maybe 2 days after I posted here, but now it’s broken again, sadly.
I know this topic’s sort of old, but this is happening right now (my server is Maguuma). Brugh is standing between The Verdance and Sleive’s Inlet and won’t move, though the quest is active.