CallmeFishmeal wrote: »With the launch of the Murkmire event, I've seen a pattern that ZOS has been leaning towards these past couple of events. To simply put it, these events are turning into cash grabs for ZOS. Before the Murkmire event started, I couldn't wait to get a voriplasm pet cause I think they look really cool! (Like Flubber or something.) On the second day of the event, I realized that it will be impossible for me to obtain the pet unless I use real money to buy crowns and pay for the individual parts from the impresario, which I refuse to do. One reason is the event is too short to even collect all the fragments. Secondly, not only do the voriplasm pet fragments drop, but also some dumb memento that I'll never use. Thirdly, the drop rate for anything good is so low that it's frustrating. I feel like ZOS is trolling us out of our time and money. Don't get me wrong, I like participating in the events and playing the game in general, but I don't want to spend 5+ hours grinding in Murkmire in hopes to get a decent drop. I just want to kill a WB, do a delve, get my tickets and a well deserved fragment, and move on with my game. Same with the previous events, grinding for hours in Imperial Sewers - Midyear Mayhem - and dungeons - Undaunted - in hopes to get a new Style Page when the drop rates were ridiculously low. I will only have enough to tickets to get the berries and feathers, but nothing else the impresario offers. Why would ZOS say "earn a voriplasm pet, and memento" when it's impossible to get them without spending crowns/real money, or literally not sleep to grind for endless hours? Doesn't seem like "earning" them in my opinion. I've played only in Murkmire since the event began, mostly dailies, catching up on overlooked quests, and farming nodes, and have only got 1 memento fragment. Maybe I'm just ranting about my awful RNG, but I feel like if we want to get the rewards possible from this event, we have to spend real money, which is rather disappointing. (And no, I'm not spending my hard earned gold to buy crowns either. ZOS just needs to be fair with their events and make them fun and rewarding.)
wait, you guys just want to get all of the event rewards guaranteed by spending 5 minutes a day and hitting a delve boss one time? am I right? I think you should just stop playing any mmorpgs to not be disappointed
No.
If people knew they could reliably get the pet, memento, and berry from 12 days of doing event stuff
Cirantille wrote: »-Fragments are not tradeable
Nothing to defend here and I don't think ZoS needs a defense at this point...
No.
If people knew they could reliably get the pet, memento, and berry from 12 days of doing event stuff
but that's the point. it even should not be reliable and guaranteed, every mmo works like that. RNG works like that. how is it even possible to mix random drop and guaranteed reward? game is meant to take your time, to make you to return to next event not to lure you spend money, ppl who like it would spend it anyways
Contaminate wrote: »No.
If people knew they could reliably get the pet, memento, and berry from 12 days of doing event stuff
but that's the point. it even should not be reliable and guaranteed, every mmo works like that. RNG works like that. how is it even possible to mix random drop and guaranteed reward? game is meant to take your time, to make you to return to next event not to lure you spend money, ppl who like it would spend it anyways
Just take a moment to realize you’re claiming people should expect events to be unrewarding, frustrating RNG grinds that have good odds to take multiple rounds to obtain a single event reward.
This is about ZOS wanting more money. Nothing else to it.
Contaminate wrote: »No.
If people knew they could reliably get the pet, memento, and berry from 12 days of doing event stuff
but that's the point. it even should not be reliable and guaranteed, every mmo works like that. RNG works like that. how is it even possible to mix random drop and guaranteed reward? game is meant to take your time, to make you to return to next event not to lure you spend money, ppl who like it would spend it anyways
Just take a moment to realize you’re claiming people should expect events to be unrewarding, frustrating RNG grinds that have good odds to take multiple rounds to obtain a single event reward.
This is about ZOS wanting more money. Nothing else to it.
Yes, i realized that ppl want make everything casual lvl 100 and then complain that ESO is too easy and has no challenge. You probably didn't played any other MMO's if you seriously complain here that someone can buy the things you must grind with RNG chanses. and by far totally cosmetic things
Contaminate wrote: »No.
If people knew they could reliably get the pet, memento, and berry from 12 days of doing event stuff
but that's the point. it even should not be reliable and guaranteed, every mmo works like that. RNG works like that. how is it even possible to mix random drop and guaranteed reward? game is meant to take your time, to make you to return to next event not to lure you spend money, ppl who like it would spend it anyways
Just take a moment to realize you’re claiming people should expect events to be unrewarding, frustrating RNG grinds that have good odds to take multiple rounds to obtain a single event reward.
This is about ZOS wanting more money. Nothing else to it.
Yes, i realized that ppl want make everything casual lvl 100 and then complain that ESO is too easy and has no challenge. You probably didn't played any other MMO's if you seriously complain here that someone can buy the things you must grind with RNG chanses. and by far totally cosmetic things
So you’re okay with a company deliberately designing an event to coerce it’s customers into the cash shop? Because THAT is what the problem is here, not the grind.
Contaminate wrote: »No.
If people knew they could reliably get the pet, memento, and berry from 12 days of doing event stuff
but that's the point. it even should not be reliable and guaranteed, every mmo works like that. RNG works like that. how is it even possible to mix random drop and guaranteed reward? game is meant to take your time, to make you to return to next event not to lure you spend money, ppl who like it would spend it anyways
Just take a moment to realize you’re claiming people should expect events to be unrewarding, frustrating RNG grinds that have good odds to take multiple rounds to obtain a single event reward.
This is about ZOS wanting more money. Nothing else to it.
Yes, i realized that ppl want make everything casual lvl 100 and then complain that ESO is too easy and has no challenge. You probably didn't played any other MMO's if you seriously complain here that someone can buy the things you must grind with RNG chanses. and by far totally cosmetic things
So you’re okay with a company deliberately designing an event to coerce it’s customers into the cash shop? Because THAT is what the problem is here, not the grind.
no one is making you buy things, it is you who wants it right here, right now and for free. it is not possible in any game
Cirantille wrote: »Ok so I also confirm that it is possible to get 2 frags per boxes
Today I got 2 pet frags
Did they hear our screeching or what?
You are new here, right? This is not the first ESO event. It was possible all these years.no one is making you buy things, it is you who wants it right here, right now and for free. it is not possible in any game
Contaminate wrote: »No.
If people knew they could reliably get the pet, memento, and berry from 12 days of doing event stuff
but that's the point. it even should not be reliable and guaranteed, every mmo works like that. RNG works like that. how is it even possible to mix random drop and guaranteed reward? game is meant to take your time, to make you to return to next event not to lure you spend money, ppl who like it would spend it anyways
Just take a moment to realize you’re claiming people should expect events to be unrewarding, frustrating RNG grinds that have good odds to take multiple rounds to obtain a single event reward.
This is about ZOS wanting more money. Nothing else to it.
Yes, i realized that ppl want make everything casual lvl 100 and then complain that ESO is too easy and has no challenge. You probably didn't played any other MMO's if you seriously complain here that someone can buy the things you must grind with RNG chanses. and by far totally cosmetic things
So you’re okay with a company deliberately designing an event to coerce it’s customers into the cash shop? Because THAT is what the problem is here, not the grind.
no one is making you buy things, it is you who wants it right here, right now and for free. it is not possible in any game
*facepalm*
Someone doesn’t understand how marketing works, or how coercive marketing works...
You’ll be easy prey.
exactly. ppl just never will be satisfyedKiralyn2000 wrote: »the I Must Collect Every Single Mount Variant folks started screeching
No.
If people knew they could reliably get the pet, memento, and berry from 12 days of doing event stuff
but that's the point. it even should not be reliable and guaranteed, every mmo works like that. RNG works like that. how is it even possible to mix random drop and guaranteed reward? game is meant to take your time, to make you to return to next event not to lure you spend money, ppl who like it would spend it anyways
wait, you guys just want to get all of the event rewards guaranteed by spending 5 minutes a day and hitting a delve boss one time? am I right? I think you should just stop playing any mmorpgs to not be disappointed
You are wrong. We just want event rewards be as accessible as they were for years of ESO events.
Contaminate wrote: »No.
If people knew they could reliably get the pet, memento, and berry from 12 days of doing event stuff
but that's the point. it even should not be reliable and guaranteed, every mmo works like that. RNG works like that. how is it even possible to mix random drop and guaranteed reward? game is meant to take your time, to make you to return to next event not to lure you spend money, ppl who like it would spend it anyways
Just take a moment to realize you’re claiming people should expect events to be unrewarding, frustrating RNG grinds that have good odds to take multiple rounds to obtain a single event reward.
This is about ZOS wanting more money. Nothing else to it.
Yes, i realized that ppl want make everything casual lvl 100 and then complain that ESO is too easy and has no challenge. You probably didn't played any other MMO's if you seriously complain here that someone can buy the things you must grind with RNG chanses. and by far totally cosmetic things
So you’re okay with a company deliberately designing an event to coerce it’s customers into the cash shop? Because THAT is what the problem is here, not the grind.
no one is making you buy things, it is you who wants it right here, right now and for free. it is not possible in any game
*facepalm*
Someone doesn’t understand how marketing works, or how coercive marketing works...
You’ll be easy prey.
why? I don't spend any money on ESO except eso+, if I need crowns - I have gold for that. And still don't complain that I could not get all possible event cosmetics "guaranteed" right now, because I don't need it really.
And really it is you, who don't understand.
Yes, because that was the start of the decline. I guess that someone at ZOS will literally die if they give enough tickets to get all event specific rewards (new berry and everything that is added like motif pages or memento parts) for those who are not blessed with RNG. Why else they are giving tickets so reluctantly? Oh, right, maybe they want to sell tickets. That is the second possible explanation.Kiralyn2000 wrote: »
Eh. As soon as they started adding more items to the ticket Vendor (for all the people who said "but I don't care about the mount!"), the I Must Collect Every Single Mount Variant folks started screeching that it wasn't possible to get everything. Nothing new, it's just that the "RNG ticket drop" aspect has made more people yell this time.
I am not a fan of lizards but I was doing Murkmire delve dailies when levelling alts. The thing is they are not fast enough comparing to Summerset. And there are only 2 delves. After a month of seeing every Murkmire delve two or more times a day I am 'a bit' tired of it. The same is with Clockwork city with its only 2 delves, the same is with Southern Elsweyr. And for zones with such a small variety when the zone is finished it is finished.Murkmire is a beautiful zone, but nobody enjoys it, nobody enjoys the actual gameplay. Most are only here for interest, profit seekers, loot lammas, flexers, and other repugnant gameplay styles.
what do you even like in this game? that you can manage lots of stuff? that you can be a hoarder?
I will not argue with that. I thought that this will be the first patch for about a year that would be good (for me). Then Iceheart was nerfed cruelly. I thought that they would certainly not make an event during the re-downloading... and I was wrong.Dusk_Coven wrote: »wait, you guys just want to get all of the event rewards guaranteed by spending 5 minutes a day and hitting a delve boss one time? am I right? I think you should just stop playing any mmorpgs to not be disappointed
You are wrong. We just want event rewards be as accessible as they were for years of ESO events.
This is not huge cause for complaint per se. The event is just different from others. Some heads-up about their direction shift would be nice.
But I think there wouldn't be as much complaining if the overall impression of ZOS hadn't suffered recently: Overlapping an event with the mandatory download, nerfing Iceheart to promote the upcoming DLC set / no sense of rhyme or reason to combat adjustments, silence on many issues, customer service disasters, group finder failure, game performance in Cyrodiil, game performance for PC(EU), etcetera... Even little things such as limited warning for events, errors and typos in announcements... It all adds up.
ZOS has lost the benefit of the doubt and community goodwill. Unless they work to reverse that, it's just going to be more complaints every time they do something.
Pet parts are useless. When I get 4 weapon styles out of 10+ at least I can use those style pages I got (or sell them if do not need them myself). If I get 4 parts of the pet till the end of the event then I got nothing at all. That is a huge difference.