Darkestnght wrote: »$80 is a lot of money but you are gambling. That is how it kinda works.
Everyone knows it's a gamble; you guys don't have to keep saying that. All people are suggesting is that the odds improve a little in our favor, especially considering the crates seem much more stacked against us than before.
fyrestrtr88 wrote: »I'm currently trying for the special ebon dwarven senche and possibly the Adamat dwarven horse...I'd settle for one or the other though : )
Same here, but I gave up on it after spending exactly too much money on the attempts; nothing unaffordable, but getting sad or angry every time I open a box isn't a good way to play. I got the vitrine wolf multiple times, and after #6, I took it as a sign to throw in the towel. Hopefully the ebon senche in particular comes back in some form later so I can have it, because I doubt it'll be a lucky pull from the free crates they're about to dish out.
It really sucks, because I've always gotten the wolf, bear, horse, and senche mounts from the crates, but since I can't get the senche and horse for this one... So much for collecting. My pocket book is pretty firmly shut from now on because my collection will never be satisfactorily complete anymore, so unless something absolutely knocks my socks off... Oh well.
Dude, no. Real gambling gives you a huge chance of getting NOTHING for your money. Crown crates will always give you something, even if it's ugly crap you don't like. And if you exchange your gems, then you can trade them for a least one or two things you really, really want. So you ALWAYS get something for your money, even if it's not a great deal. That is NOT gambling.For the people who keep saying, "Stop telling people thats its gambling", no you stop. IT IS GAMBLING. Frankly, I'm glad that ZoS can make money this way. As long as people are willing to gamble, or spend money on houses they wont feel the need, the urge to make sh!#* like uber drop gears that needs a 50 dollar CS item that has to be unlocked. You have rotten luck with the RNG, so what, get over it. You made a choice to gamble for something and it didn't work out. its like going to a raffle and buying tickets and not winning. Are you going to go up and say I bought 100 bucks worth of tickets and I didnt get that ridding lawn mower, its rigged you guys screwed up! No.
@DaveMoeDeeDaveMoeDee wrote: »You do not understand random numbers. Random numbers have runs. Especially when so many people are opening them. There are going to be people who get results like that.
You are like someone who flipped a coin, got heads, and now says that coins are heavily weighted towards heads. Your singular anecdote tells us nothing.
Also, no one ever said that all items have equal probability. It is far more likely that certain items have lower probability.
I worked as a programmer in the gaming industry for many years and *every* game i have ever worked on had weights on the loot drop tables.
Every ... single ... one ...
And then there's the time domain filtering, which ZOS also heavily employs in their *RNG*.
Once you introduce any sort of weighting or filtering, it ain't pure RNG anymore, plain and simple as that.
@DaveMoeDeeDaveMoeDee wrote: »You do not understand random numbers. Random numbers have runs. Especially when so many people are opening them. There are going to be people who get results like that.
You are like someone who flipped a coin, got heads, and now says that coins are heavily weighted towards heads. Your singular anecdote tells us nothing.
Also, no one ever said that all items have equal probability. It is far more likely that certain items have lower probability.
You do not understand RNG in games.
I worked as a programmer in the gaming industry for many years and *every* game i have ever worked on had weights on the loot drop tables.
Every ... single ... one ...
And then there's the time domain filtering, which ZOS also heavily employs in their *RNG*.
Once you introduce any sort of weighting or filtering, it ain't pure RNG anymore, plain and simple as that.
But sure, please go and buy 20 crates and the come back here and post your nix hound count and then tell me again how random numbers work.