After approximately 150 crates, I got two weapon styles, a wagon of exp scrolls, one statue, several banners, and one regular mount. This doesn't include vendor trash like food, potions, books, and repeat cosmetics.

My 5th card was almost always a scroll, save for the one mount and (pfft) a sweetroll. This rng sucks, I agree. Not feeling fantastic about trying again next month, I gotta say. But there are still some things I want to roll for in the hopes I get the wolf/horse apex.

Good luck and congrats to anyone who got one or all three of the rares, especially those of you trying to get 600 gems for the spider.

Out of the hundreds of boxes I've opened since crates were introduced I got 1 apex mount. Certainly never a radiant apex.

I`d like to see crates being removed all together and mounts being added to the crown store or into some sort of battle pass. Lootboxes are predatory and disgusting in my opinion, but I do know that hoping for their removal is but wishful thinking.

I look at the normal store and then at the contents of the crates and can clearly see they are forcing every cool item into them.

Mudcrabber wrote: »

The hope is that one person will spend $4k to get all three radiant apex, generating as much quarterly income as a hundred casual subscribers combined.

Yup one whale is worth about 250 players who dont ever buy anything.

Never gotten a radiant mount sadly, I just buy maybe 15 or so crates if I like the season or some more if I need gems for something. If I don’t get a radiant so be it, no point buying anymore when droprate is abysmal.

Anyhow bought around 16 and got the dragonscale wolf and bear within the first 6 crates. Probably my luck gone for the year... Got a legendary xp scroll, emotes, tattoos and stuff and not much else but got enough gems for the dwarven staff so was decent for once.

Uryel wrote: »

They made it very simple for me, this time : there isn't a single thing in the new crates that even sparked a glimmer of interest.

Also, Elseweyr is a hot desert, and some of the items in Elseweyr-related crates are... Frot themed ?

We're getting a different season for Elsweyr.

Bandaari crates. You get one if you pre-order the chapter.

I think after reading all you guys' responses that the problem is that ZOS's philosophy on Crown Crates has shifted from their beginning to now.

When Storm Atronach crates (first series) came out, there was an understanding that the crates were random and stuff in them was harder to get and thus the stuff in there -- especially the Apex stuff -- had to be made with much more quality than the sure-thing stuff in the regular Crown Store. That definitely continued for a while, for example, I don't think the Wild Hunt Guar is any worse than the Storm Atronach.

But I have this sinking feeling with the Xanmeer and the current seasons that the emphasis is being shifted to the ultra-rare Radiants and the other stuff in the crates, including the Apex, doesn't quite have that high quality requirement anymore. If the Solar Horse was created back in the early crate seasons, I am pretty certain the Solar would be the theme for all the Apex mounts, and the customers would all be happy with that.

I won't lie, I did spent 600 of the crown gems I got on the Dwarven weapon overlays, (one of the four I got as a drop) so it's not like I didn't buy into this season... but I do hope the trend reverses and the excellence in creating future seasons shifts back to the Legendaries and Apex rather than the Radiant Apex stuff that nearly nobody will ever get.

Why were the Ouroboros Crates infamous?

Quantact wrote: »

When Storm Atronach crates (first series) came out, there was an understanding that the crates were random and stuff in them was harder to get and thus the stuff in there -- especially the Apex stuff -- had to be made with much more quality than the sure-thing stuff in the regular Crown Store. That definitely continued for a while, for example, I don't think the Wild Hunt Guar is any worse than the Storm Atronach.

Crates are on the same quality level as anything else in the crown store. The only difference is that crates get the luxury of releasing all six mount variants from the theme at one time.

People tend to romanticize the first releases of anything. But people were bashing Storm and Wild Hunt as being lore-breaking, distracting, and obnoxious long prior to their releases. There have been disparaging comments for every crate season. I'm still not thrilled with how they originated, but again, given the choice between more collectibles options and fewer collectibles options, I'll take more. Easier to skip something than not have it at all.

I'm not going to go and call something *** just because it's not attuned to my personal taste. I've liked some seasons more than others. Totally normal.

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luizhd wrote: »

I`d like to see crates being removed all together and mounts being added to the crown store or into some sort of battle pass. Lootboxes are predatory and disgusting in my opinion, but I do know that hoping for their removal is but wishful thinking.

I look at the normal store and then at the contents of the crates and can clearly see they are forcing every cool item into them.

Yes. There should be a different system for cool mounts and other desirable items. Their model seems to be based on greed, which I find distasteful and don't want to support. I think there should be more mounts in the game that you can grind through rep or through farming dungeons/overland that have rare drop rates I know they are F2P and need to make money, but I pay for eso+ and buy items, skins and such from the crown store already. I think they are making a ton of money and this just feels greedy to me...

ookami007 wrote: »

In the end, this game is about parting you from your money. If you forget that for even the briefest time, expect it to cost you - literally.

Tell me of a business not trying to do this?