About them preview crates ....

Carbonised

Another batch of preview crates have been datamined for the next season, as well as a handful of pets that fit the theme of the apex mounts of next crate season. If the current season is anything to go by, the "preview" crate will be a login reward as well, with a chance to get 1 of the 5-6 pet types, and essentially being locked out of getting any of the other pets, since you cannot buy them outright, and you only get 1 of them.

ZOS, this is a bad idea, a bad implementation. Reward a random pet if you like (it would be better to get a choice of your own. What's your obsession with random rewards and gambling mechanics that no one likes), but at least retain the possibility to buy one or several of the other pets if you like them. No one likes being locked out of getting stuff, due to some random roll of a die, and it's concerning an worrying that datamines reveal yet more of these "preview" crates. There's already plenty of threads on the forum complaining that we can't buy the Baandari pets, if you continue this trend, you'll only see more threads of the same nature in the next season.

Rezdayn

Carbonised wrote: »

Another batch of preview crates have been datamined for the next season, as well as a handful of pets that fit the theme of the apex mounts of next crate season. If the current season is anything to go by, the "preview" crate will be a login reward as well, with a chance to get 1 of the 5-6 pet types, and essentially being locked out of getting any of the other pets, since you cannot buy them outright, and you only get 1 of them.

ZOS, this is a bad idea, a bad implementation. Reward a random pet if you like (it would be better to get a choice of your own. What's your obsession with random rewards and gambling mechanics that no one likes), but at least retain the possibility to buy one or several of the other pets if you like them. No one likes being locked out of getting stuff, due to some random roll of a die, and it's concerning an worrying that datamines reveal yet more of these "preview" crates. There's already plenty of threads on the forum complaining that we can't buy the Baandari pets, if you continue this trend, you'll only see more threads of the same nature in the next season.

Yea..

I was a idiot and really wanted the senche pack pet. Everyone was telling me they got them from the Baandari preview crates. So I figured they would be in the actual Baandari crates. 2000 crowns and 750k gold later I decided to google the drop rate of them and realized I had flushed 1.15M gold (750k + the gold I could of got for selling the crowns I used) because for some weird reason the preview crates dropped items the ACTUAL crate didnt have..

I know I should of researched more.. I know people will call me the idiot for not checking first... but I feel like assuming the items in the preview crate will be in the real crate is okay and I honestly feel baited by zos..

Kiyakotari

ZOS: Here, check out this thing, we'll give you one for free. Look, there are more very similar but subtly different ones!

Player Base: Oooooh! I'd love to give you money for those other variations!

ZOS: No, you can't have them! We don't want it! We aren't in the business of making money, here!! *stamps out more Crown Gems for distribution*

MasterSpatula

I wish I could say ZOS were the kind of company that drops godawful ideas when it's pointed out the idea is godawful, but.. I mean... Come on.