Why is it so hard nowadays to get even medium rewards from crown crates?

PizzaCat82

Yes, I know RNG is RNG, and I know its probably harder for a reason, it just seems worth bringing up.

I can buy 15 or 30 crates now and get 0 legndaries, maybe 1 or 2 epics, and the rest superior, and not even different superior rewards, but the same superior reward for the least amount of gems possible.

If this is the direction we're going where I have to buy 60 or so crates to just get the gems for all the legendaries I want (not even thinking of apex or radiants) its going to be a very tough game to play for now on.

And while I've already resigned myself to the fact that I wont get, nor deserve, every apex or radiant, its starting to be the case for anything interesting in crates. The only thing I can expect is the same markings to unbox 20 times out of 30.

waterfairy

yea it seems like they reduced the chances along with putting every mount and skin in the 100 gem bracket which seems greedy considering some skins/mounts used to be in the cheaper section that's currently occupied by eyes...that so many are gobbling up with their gems

Starlock

Here's some real data - https://www.crowncrates.com/ayleid

• Legendary Drop Rate - 15%
• Epic Drop Rate - 21%
• Superior Drop Rate - 86%

PizzaCat82

Wolfpaw wrote: »

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I believe the only reason we see these items from crates is because they bring in revenue. Remove that revenue, and the incentive to make new items for the game decreases.

I only want the crates to be a better value for the money. They make them worse because they want the fear of missing out to make people buy more (and it works)

Theosis

the only reason

Twilanthe

It'll be interesting to see if/how/when things change under Microsoft.

I do wish the crates had a better drop rate. I only ever buy them with the crowns I get either from my 6 month sub renewal or when crowns go on sale, so I rarely get much of the good stuff.

I have nothing against the crown store or crates myself. I think ESO is decent about putting good stuff in the game. You can get most homes for gold, and they give pretty good free ones away too. The really impressive skins and dyes are ones you get for content in the game, I don't think anyone is impressed when someone spent $500 on crown crates to get the extra glowly wolf, but I'm always impressed when I see some of the achievement skins/dyes.

And crown store gives them money which gives us content

Wolfpaw

PizzaCat82 wrote: »

Wolfpaw wrote: »

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I believe the only reason we see these items from crates is because they bring in revenue. Remove that revenue, and the incentive to make new items for the game decreases.

I only want the crates to be a better value for the money. They make them worse because they want the fear of missing out to make people buy more (and it works)

This company and game are part of a sale for $7.5billion, & it's a b2p and sub model with paid content updates (multiple times a year),...with a cash shop.

Revenue is above and beyond profitable.

Direct buy would sell just fine. This is the consumer's fault.

Faded

At a guess because terrible drop rates cause people to buy more crates.

Whatever makes the most profit is what they'll do.