Disappointed with mystery box event?

zergbase_ESO

Yes

monktoasty wrote: »

I am. Didn't get anything good. Basically got squat to test their dumb group load

Pretty much this event is pure garbage. The loot tables are too large and RNG is horrid. Like seriously..... Whoever made this loot table and event should be slapped with a autistic child in the face.

Supertoy31

Yes

33 Box and only the chief costume kidding.

And the even himself is boring, no gameplay, just grinding the most boring thing in the game (normal dg) for a carrot that doesnt exist

James-Wayne

Yes

Lockpicks!!! Seriously ZOS, Lockpicks!!

Elsonso

Yes

starkerealm wrote: »

The others have started including furniture pieces in... and I honestly think those are supposed to be an acceptable prize, but it doesn't quite work that way. If they were added as a third, parallel, prize you got with everything else, it'd probably go over a lot better.

Witches Festival and the sticks were quite over the top. Collectively, they were nothing more than the infamous banners. I have a ton of them cluttering up a bank while I decide what to do with them. I did not welcome these, and it was a frequent joke among the players at the time.

starkerealm

Yes

LadyAstrum wrote: »

starkerealm wrote: »

LadyAstrum wrote: »

starkerealm wrote: »

LadyAstrum wrote: »

Yes, thank you for giving us events, but can you at least make them worth participating in?

The worst part is, they've actually been worth participating in. Since last year's New Life Festival, the event drop boxes have ended up with very cluttered drop tables.

Last Halloween and New Years, we had fairly clean tables that would reliably get you something interesting, even if it wasn't something you wanted. New Years in particular had a lot of stuff, but you could reliably see all of it from running a single character through the dailies a few times (except for the Fish Eye Rye. That stuff was murder to obtain.)

April had a bunch of furniture, and the daily count was ridiculously low, to the point that I'm not sure there were enough prizes to get everything on one character without trading.

This year's halloween felt a lot more... dilute. A lot of furniture taking up the slot for recipes. Just, underwhelming overall.

It sounds like the quality of loot dropped when the the crown crates came into the picture. I hope this isn't the case. I will not stick with a game that degrades because of a loot boxes.

Typical, that when I finally get around to giving this game another chance, the events churn out loot-junk.

It's not the crates, it's the furniture.

Actually, I forgot to mention, the Anniversary boxes were very worth it. They had a dilute pool, but almost everything in there was worth getting. Even when you got stuff that wasn't particularly worth it, like the Celestial motif pages, it still felt like you'd gotten something that could be valuable to someone, just not you.

The others have started including furniture pieces in... and I honestly think those are supposed to be an acceptable prize, but it doesn't quite work that way. If they were added as a third, parallel, prize you got with everything else, it'd probably go over a lot better.

I just want to see better loot...like you say as it was before. This sort of thing is really off-putting to me. Better loot tables that rewards people's time and effort, OR better yet, a token-system to purchase the things we want from an event NPC.

A token system would work. Or a fixed reward progression, where if you participate on a character for one day you get this reward, two days gets you another, three gets you a third, and so on. If you do a daily each day of the event, you get all of the rewards. At that point you can stick additional prizes above and beyond without worrying, because even if you don't win those, you do get compensated.

The problem is those mystery boxes just don't reliably turn out something nice.

LadyAstrum

Yes

I have more fun stealing items from wooden crates and barrels on my thief than the Halloween and 10Million event boxes so far. I hope New Life is better.

starkerealm

Yes

lordrichter wrote: »

starkerealm wrote: »

The others have started including furniture pieces in... and I honestly think those are supposed to be an acceptable prize, but it doesn't quite work that way. If they were added as a third, parallel, prize you got with everything else, it'd probably go over a lot better.

Witches Festival and the sticks were quite over the top. Collectively, they were nothing more than the infamous banners. I have a ton of them cluttering up a bank while I decide what to do with them. I did not welcome these, and it was a frequent joke among the players at the time.

The sticks were even worse because they started dropping from wood nodes a couple weeks before the event. So, by the time it had started, I was already building up a collection.

LadyAstrum

Yes

lordrichter wrote: »

starkerealm wrote: »

The others have started including furniture pieces in... and I honestly think those are supposed to be an acceptable prize, but it doesn't quite work that way. If they were added as a third, parallel, prize you got with everything else, it'd probably go over a lot better.

Witches Festival and the sticks were quite over the top. Collectively, they were nothing more than the infamous banners. I have a ton of them cluttering up a bank while I decide what to do with them. I did not welcome these, and it was a frequent joke among the players at the time.

It honestly boggles my mind how people liked the Witches Festival. It was my first one and I was disappointed. Sticks for goodness sakes? I have very little expectation for the events in this game. I might have to go back to GW2 just to experience some lively events, because this game, thus far for me, isn't doing it.

Raideen

Yes

LadyAstrum wrote: »

lordrichter wrote: »

starkerealm wrote: »

The others have started including furniture pieces in... and I honestly think those are supposed to be an acceptable prize, but it doesn't quite work that way. If they were added as a third, parallel, prize you got with everything else, it'd probably go over a lot better.

Witches Festival and the sticks were quite over the top. Collectively, they were nothing more than the infamous banners. I have a ton of them cluttering up a bank while I decide what to do with them. I did not welcome these, and it was a frequent joke among the players at the time.

It honestly boggles my mind how people liked the Witches Festival. It was my first one and I was disappointed. Sticks for goodness sakes? I have very little expectation for the events in this game. I might have to go back to GW2 just to experience some lively events, because this game, thus far for me, isn't doing it.

I personally miss the rewarded feeling, the satisfaction from getting mount drops in wow, either in dungeons or in raids....or even grinding tokens or rep to get a mount.

This game so far does not seem to give that "rewarded" feeling for doing anything. Its all feeling a bit...bland.

zergbase_ESO

Yes

Raideen wrote: »

LadyAstrum wrote: »

lordrichter wrote: »

starkerealm wrote: »

The others have started including furniture pieces in... and I honestly think those are supposed to be an acceptable prize, but it doesn't quite work that way. If they were added as a third, parallel, prize you got with everything else, it'd probably go over a lot better.

Witches Festival and the sticks were quite over the top. Collectively, they were nothing more than the infamous banners. I have a ton of them cluttering up a bank while I decide what to do with them. I did not welcome these, and it was a frequent joke among the players at the time.

It honestly boggles my mind how people liked the Witches Festival. It was my first one and I was disappointed. Sticks for goodness sakes? I have very little expectation for the events in this game. I might have to go back to GW2 just to experience some lively events, because this game, thus far for me, isn't doing it.

I personally miss the rewarded feeling, the satisfaction from getting mount drops in wow, either in dungeons or in raids....or even grinding tokens or rep to get a mount.

This game so far does not seem to give that "rewarded" feeling for doing anything. Its all feeling a bit...bland.

So agree with this... All RNG and mind numbing grinds. I mean look at this event it shows how bad RNG can be. lol

Cpt_Teemo

Yes

LadyAstrum wrote: »

ToRelax wrote: »

If you don't like doing random dungeons... how about not doing random dungeons... especially if you think the rewards aren't that great. x)

This is not a sensible solution. Part of retaining players is making the game worth playing, and events are a big part of that. But yeah, in future I'll take your advice and not waste my time if this is how ZoS rolls.

2nd ^

Cpt_Teemo

Yes

zergbase_ESO wrote: »

monktoasty wrote: »

I am. Didn't get anything good. Basically got squat to test their dumb group load

Pretty much this event is pure garbage. The loot tables are too large and RNG is horrid. Like seriously..... Whoever made this loot table and event should be slapped with a autistic child in the face.

It's not even considered rng if you get 12 1k treasures out of 14 boxes, that's like rolling a 1 on a 6 sided dye 12 times out of 14.

Motherball

No

It’s a good event for getting people to try the multiplayer dungeons. I imagine fresh blood is integral for this kind of business. For someone that has been playing for years and has everything, the rewards may seem lacking.

WhiteNoiseMaker

I was initially very excited and enthused for this event. After two days I basically decided it wasn't worth my time to log-in and run content purely for the shiny reward boxes. The RNG and loot tables are simply too widely dispersed. I haven't felt the desire to log in in over 24 hours, even when I had leisure time, and I may just end up skipping the rest of the event. Combined with the atrocious manners of many 'fakes' and carry-leeches hopping into Dungeon Finder, I actually am not enjoying running dungeons right now, which I normally love running every day. The feeling that people are phoning everything in, combined with the lackluster rewards just makes me say 'the juice isn't worth the squeeze'.

AbysmalGhul

Is it me or has ESO's RNG become very similar to Neverwinter's very horrid and rancid style of RNG?

I feel something has changed after Morrowind. I remember motifs , trial equipment, and event items dropping a bit easier. Last year during the New Life festival, I was practically receiving a cherry blossom or Nordic towel drop every other turn in....now ....burnt branches, nix hounds, and Undaunted plunder galore.....

VonNelson

No

I might be the only person loving it. I have never used the group finder for dungeons so this event filled me with fear but I’ve had a blast! Playing with character classes and taking roles I would never normally. Seen far too much of some dungeons though but as a bonus - no twigs!!

Been levelling some toons I’ve had sitting at low levels for quite a while very quickly- this is a great thing

Jaimeh

No

The only things I really wanted from the event were the costumes, and I have gotten two so far, so even if I don't get the rest, I'm still pleased. However, I can definitely appreciate that it might be disappointing for those with limited play time; running with multiple alts takes long, and to get only tripots and maps on top of that, is kinda frustrating.

kringled_1

I'm not really disappointed. While I wouldn't have been running randoms on my low level characters without it, I don't actually mind it - it gave me a bit of a focus to build them to, and it's a good excuse to learn how they work a bit better. I was already usually running random normals on my main. I got a couple of plans, so maybe if they sell a nice chunk of change, and the horse, which I guess gives me some options to vary my character mounts.

twitch_zero

Yes

Yes

Got a couple of costumes and a mount but also got a mountain load of crap, I'm basically destroying treasure maps cause they are essentially useless

Zimbugga

No

Every item is good and useful.

Just those fake roles ruins this event..

BmcD73

Yes

I came here wondering the same thing as the OP. The loot has been terrible. Crown repair kits mainly or tri-restore potions. A few xp scrolls which aren't too bad but that is about it.

I run 2 toons on Xbox and 6 on the PC. No one has gotten anything "good"

I also forgot to mention that I have never used the group finder tool and haven't really done any of the dungeons before. Mainly because of bone heads. I cant tell you how many times there is one person sprinting through content as fast as they can. It ruins the entire thing. I have no problem moving fast but being caught behind a door because someone can't wait .00007 seconds is stupid. Funny thing is those precious few seconds saved usually costs them minutes with deaths or other group members trapped behind a door because they start the event too early. Experience has been the same on the xbox and the pc

TheValar85

Yes

This Event is definetly a slap into the face.
They should leav this "bonus Looot" inside permanently.cos basicly we only reciev stuffs what we can get from undaunted daily plegedes.

Tirps

No

Yes and no. I have opened around 25 boxes and haven't got any collectibles, but I have got 3 purple clockwork city dlc furnishing plans. So yeah

Ratzkifal

I got an Aetherial dust, had a few fun runs and a few horrible ones, got the Chef costume and a couple of green clockwork city furnishing plans as well as a purple one and two dye stamps. The rest has been mimic stones, undaunted keys transmutation crystals or worse. I can't really complain but apart from the Aetherial dust I got nothing I was hoping for, so I am kind of in the middle for now. That opinion might change this afternoon

Altaire

Other.
Disappointed w/ the event boxes, but had fun in the PUGs.
Some went so fast it seemed like a timed event, others where like LoL clusterflocks, but none of the groups I was in gave up.
I wasn't in a rush to finish,so that might be why I enjoyed the PUGs.

ShadySmell

I've never started the dungeons yet. I've planned to for the past 2 days, but I've not got to it yet. But I'll come back here and let you all know how it goes. Wish me luck!

rynth

No

why would people be disappointed with something that is free and easy to get. From seeing posts all I can say is people should be ashamed of themselves and how they act, especially something that was free.

MattT1988

Yes

The RNG is waaaay too weighted towards the negative.

DocFrost72

No

code65536 wrote: »

DocFrost72 wrote: »

As it stands, I got a 2000 crown costume

It's kinda funny how the steady inflation of crown store prices influenced how people think and remember these things.

When Dark Shaman was released over a year ago, it was 1200 crowns, not 2000. And a lot of people complained on the forums about the exorbitant 1200cr price. But that doesn't seem as outrageous these days, now that people have gotten used to special costumes often costing 2K or more.

Gave you an insightful, but also felt I should mention something. Costumes seem to come in tiers-

500, 700, and 1k racials are super common. Remember the dunmer trio of very well done ladies' wear, not one of which neared 2k? More recently, the Nordic and breton men's wear.

I honestly thought this costume was in the alliance hero or "cutesy" assassin tier, the tier that emulates well known or particularly noteworthy individuals.

I also, shamelessly, thought that because I would have paid 2k crowns to give my new overweight male orc this to break the wedding dress mold.

ThePrinceOfBargains

Yes

rynth wrote: »

why would people be disappointed with something that is free and easy to get. From seeing posts all I can say is people should be ashamed of themselves and how they act, especially something that was free.

Stop with this. I’d rather pay. That’s the point. Some of us wanted this Shaman costume for a long time and now they’re dangling it over our heads like we’re pets. I’d call it sadistic, but I realize I’m more than a bit peeved, and I don’t want to discredit my argument with absurdity.

This was just a horribly executed, horribly marketed event. This is not a celebration of the players. It’s celebrating one of the biggest things we hate about the game.