ShadowNight16 wrote: »Well, I don't understand why they'd show that you'd get four crates, but instead only got one.
Pretty misleading if you ask me. Got my hopes up, ZOS. </3
ShadowNight16 wrote: »Let's look at some of this stuff:
1. Three Motif Styles that DON'T need to be here! The Order of the Hour and Minotaur styles are soooo easy to obtain. Just be like normal people, and farm from the Gold Coast dailies. They're a waste being set as something you can get from a Crown Crate. If I wanted it, why not just put it with the other Motifs?
2. The Dwarven mounts kind of suck. Compared to the Wild Hunt mounts, these just aren't that aesthetically-pleasing.
3. Bonnets... Really, ZOS?... Bonnets? One, these look ugly. Two, who wears a bonnet...? Three, did I mention they're ugly?
4. You can't get rid of costumes our hats you don't like. The bonnets are ugly, and I don't know why or how someone would otherwise think that. We should be able to extract gems from any costume or hat that we don't like, and let that be able to get us what we actually want.
5. The actual costumes aren't that grand, either. The Nedic armor isn't as bad as the other stuff, but I'd like to opt-out of wearing antlers. There's three Ordinator costumes that don't feel that different besides VERY subtle adjustments (Night-Raid and Hand of Almalexia shoulders change ever-so-slightly).
6. Dwemervamidium Mirage glitches. Since logging in, I walked around in Orsinium and saw the armor here... just casually in the air. It hasn't moved nor been removed since seeing it.
7. Hero costumes and Clavicus stuff personally are the only good items. People may think otherwise, but the closest things I'd buy-- sorry, that I'd roll the dice and pray to RNGesus to give me-- would be the Hero outfits, or the Clavicus Vile stuff.
ZOS, you can do so much better with this. I know you can. Some of this stuff just doesn't belong in a Crown Crate season, but just plainly in the store itself. People want the Wolf Lord outfit and hopefully a Vampire Lord one as well, not re-textures and re-skins of items like the Ordinator and what not. If the Hero outfits have shown up multiple times now, then why not just put them in the Wardrobe section of the Crown Store? You can remove the "Armored Knights Pack" and "Stealthy Rogues Pack" to replace them with much cooler outfits.
Had to quote myself here, because I bought crates last night and managed to get the striped wolf and one of the hairs (the braided one). I had saved some crowns from the crown sale they'd had earlier in the year.SydneyGrey wrote: »I do want the striped wolf and both hairs, though, and some of the other pets and mounts.
Really? The Clavicus stuff is good? How is a banner that's just a reskin of the fifty banners in the game a good item to win from a $2.50 crown crate?
dmnqwkb16_ESO wrote: »I bought 60 crates and do not regret it at all.
I actually like the Apex mounts and would ride the Camel more were it not a bit slow to start if you jump a lot like me (The Guar is atrocious if you jump!)
I didn't get everything I wanted, but I bought the eyeshadows I was missing with my gems from trading in the one-shot items like potions. I don't feel the crates are negative or bad, which seems to put me at odds with everyone else who didn't get lucky when gambling.
fyrestrtr88 wrote: »I must admit, with the the purchase of my first 30 crown crates, I was not very happy...although, once I purchased at least 45-60 that definitely changed! I love having new mounts and new costumes. It's actually kind of thrilling to buy that 15 pack of crown crates, and make your way through each one, hoping to get something that sparks your interest. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. People keep badmouthing crown crates, but honestly, they are completely fair, and some people really enjoy them.
Stovahkiin wrote: »fyrestrtr88 wrote: »I must admit, with the the purchase of my first 30 crown crates, I was not very happy...although, once I purchased at least 45-60 that definitely changed! I love having new mounts and new costumes. It's actually kind of thrilling to buy that 15 pack of crown crates, and make your way through each one, hoping to get something that sparks your interest. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. People keep badmouthing crown crates, but honestly, they are completely fair, and some people really enjoy them.
How are crown crates "completely fair" if you have to buy dozens and dozens of them in order to get anything decent? The majority of people who are only willing / able to buy a handful or two get completely screwed due to how terrible the drop odds are.
If the drop odds were at least decent, then Zeni probably wouldn't have a problem with releasing those odds, but they refuse to do so.
The tickets may be more expensive, but you also have a LOT higher chance of actually winning something decent. Like, a thousand times higher, probably. Actual lotteries have absolutely terrible odds.fyrestrtr88 wrote: »I just think it's fair because it's a gamble, yet some people end up happy in the end. I may not get exactly what I want, but at least after a few tries, I get something cool. Some people get very lucky, and only buy a few crates. I've had to purchase quite a few to get what I want, but it won't deter me from trying more in the future. The drop rates may not be the best, but it's the same for gambling with anything. The lottery has some very interesting odds, but you have no chance of winning, unless you purchase a ticket. In this instance, the tickets are a little more expensive, but the prizes are totally worth it (depending on who you ask) I wish that I could get what I wanted within the first 15 crates, but then there really wouldn't be any point in having crown crates.