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What gives with the ULTRA-STINGY reward boxes zos??

  • haelene
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    God, I thought this thread was going to be about... well, basically any daily in the game

    Now that I think about it the daily boxes give more stuff than the event rewards.
  • Dusk_Coven
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    They already gave us an extra 3 tickets per day for 15 days during New Life -- which was 3x the amount that last year's Undaunted event was supposed to give.
  • MasterSpatula
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    Dusk_Coven wrote: »
    They already gave us an extra 3 tickets per day for 15 days during New Life -- which was 3x the amount that last year's Undaunted event was supposed to give.

    Many of us were out of town during New Life. I was here for one day of it.
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  • xxthir13enxx
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    Well.... LOL
  • Anotherone773
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    pod88kk wrote: »
    Plus it's only on for 5 days :|

    I know this event is only a stress test for the 'new group finder' but wouldn't a longer period give better data for them to work with?

    No because as events go on people do them less and less. And you cant stress test something if you start at peak and go down from there.
  • AyeshaBelladonna
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    Dusk_Coven wrote: »
    They already gave us an extra 3 tickets per day for 15 days during New Life -- which was 3x the amount that last year's Undaunted event was supposed to give.


    And my complaint has zero to do with the tickets. they had to do that or people would have been short for indrik berries and they didn't have time to get another event in to take the place of the one. Also- i don't know what YOU were looking at, but 3 tickets per days is EXACTLY what this event was due to give you if it had happened on time. They didn't reissue the berries so those tickets and these tickets have nothing to do with on another. this is strictly about sub-standard reward boxes that were the ORIGINAL rewards anyways for this event before tickets were ever a thing and the reward drops have been severely nerferd. the ticket system was supposed to ADD to the original rewards because those original rewards were nothing great either.... but they were certainly more than ONE item a box.

    Edited by AyeshaBelladonna on January 10, 2020 5:27AM
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  • pod88kk
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    pod88kk wrote: »
    Plus it's only on for 5 days :|

    I know this event is only a stress test for the 'new group finder' but wouldn't a longer period give better data for them to work with?

    No because as events go on people do them less and less. And you cant stress test something if you start at peak and go down from there.

    Surely they should at least give us time to earn enough tickets to buy all the style pieces like EVERY other event so far
  • TheUndeadAmulet
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    The best thing I've gotten after about 30 boxes is this Crest of the Welkynar that was worth 10k gold.
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    I remember getting a single transmute crystal out of one. How exciting. I remember the undaunted event from a year or 2 ago, where you had the chance to get mounts, costumes, houses, tons of cool stuff that was actually woth grinding for. This event is a waste of time though. Use your event tickets to get the weapon motifs you want. What a waste of time.
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  • Loralai_907
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    Having been around for a while, the rewards this year are pretty sad in comparison to previous years. If I could get more of the opal pages a day, or even more of the standard random motif pages a day, that might make the event "feel" better. Mostly I just feel like I am wasting my time to be honest. I'm all for running a few dungeons with my friends, but being in that mode all day isn't exciting me when the rewards are what they are this year. I don't feel like the chase is resulting in a shiny object quite often enough.
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  • Hotdog_23
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    One transmute crystal, one key, rest undaunted plunder out of 10-12 dungeon runs. I did manage to get one opal Helm from COH. Lost hope that I will be able to collect all the opal style weapons and armor. Drop rate to small. Took 5 vet hm runs to get opal helm.
  • caperb
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    rumple9 wrote: »
    The event won't be for 5 days though because they will probably do maintenance on Monday (EU)

    The average European (where the biggest playerbase resides) is either getting ready for, traveling to it or already at his work when the "fifth" day starts. They always advertise these events like they are X days, but in reality they are always one day shorter by default for most players.

    ZOS should the event last 24 hours each day without broken days, would be much fairer.
  • Bekkael
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    I got 1 transmute crystal too. I lol’d, I didn’t even know you could get a single transmute crystal. What’s the point? 😂 I’m only doing one dungeon run a day for tickets, because the rewards are just silly. A waste of time to bother with any more.
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  • DarcyMardin
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    valeriiya wrote: »
    I got a treasure map in one, super awesome :/

    I got a Crown repair kit LOL.

  • Ashtaris
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    I have to agree, the rewards this year are pretty sad in comparison to previous years. Actually it seems that ZOS is getting cheap on all the events lately. And I’m not sure why. You would think.thy would want more participation from the players, not less. But I suppose if you want to reduce stress on the GF, this is one way to accomplish that.
    Edited by Ashtaris on January 10, 2020 8:48AM
  • alanmatillab16_ESO
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    LOL the community got what they complained about to get and are still complaining.

    Players were moaning like heck about how rare items, packs of mount skills, pets etc came from loot boxes and how it was "tempting kids to gamble" so ZOS removed most of them from loot boxes. Now you are all complaining those items are not available in loot boxes.

    Be careful what you wish for.
  • Granicus
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    I tend to agree, pretty underwhelming loot. Not really enough to justify spending the time to do this event. I kept clicking on the Undaunted Plunder trying to open them. Couldn’t believe they were just merchant sell items. Especially after opening (actual) PLUNDER Skulls during the October Event. And I also received a blue Crown repair kit. Wow! One Transmute Crystal? Really? Obtaining these crystals in PvE is already pretty stingy. I thought this would be an opportunity to fix that, if only temporarily during the event.

    Granted, I appreciate that effort is put into providing events at all. But it’s a matter of time vs. value for me. To the extent I used the DF it did appear to work better than it had over the past couple of days. No better really than prior to the last Monday patch, but certainly better than after that patch. That is some progress. Honestly, I expected the Event to be cancelled again given the state of the DF just prior to Event start.
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  • redlink1979
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    After 2 days (8 runs with 4 chars, because I got fed up): 2 style pages (1 per day), 3 undaunted keys, 2 repair kit, 2 riding lessons...

    We can only grab a style page per account per day?! A guaranteed page per char would be appealing... The current mo is not.

    Undaunted rewards, and their amount - 1 per box, aren't worth the time spent waiting/running a dungeon.

    I probably won't care about this "event" and I will run a dungeon to get the tickets only.


    PS - 50 keys per a style page? FFS

    PS2 - We get better rewards for delivering daily writs.
    Edited by redlink1979 on January 10, 2020 10:46AM
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  • Dragonnord
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    The rewards are perfectly balanced. If ZOS packs EVERYONE with BIG important rewards, that wouldn't be good for the game health as people would stop doing other stuff and content as they got it already in the Undaunted event.

    Ie: "Nah! I pass. I'm OK. I got 2850 Transmute Stones in the Undaunted event, no need to do PvP now, nor BGs, nor daily randoms, pledges and weekly trials for coffer boxes. I got my stones already for the next 3/4 months. Thanks."

    And the above it's just one example of many I can think of.

    Also, you don't get big rewards for a super easy 5 minutes content.
     
    Edited by Dragonnord on January 10, 2020 10:34AM
  • Recent
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    I agree with your sentiments OP. Additionally, although I realize this is a stress test, I wish the event lasted longer than 5 days so that it would be possible to obtain more of the motifs. I'm not sure which pieces I want to spend event tickets on, and which pieces will end up dropping for me, and if I'll get doubles...if the event was longer, I wouldn't be so concerned. But ah well.

    I feel exactly the same way about this
  • FierceSam
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    + 1 grazillion

    It’s as if ZOS went in and said “what’s the absolute least we can offer that will tempt players into doing this”...

    And then lowered the bar several notches.

    The thing that depresses me about this is not so much the derisory and contemptuous rewards on offer as the abject lack of imagination being shown in events like these.

    Where are the interesting rewards?

    Where are the cool Undaunted themed furnishings that might encourage dungeon warriors to start playing with housing?

    What about outfit tokens, which might encourage players to play with more than 1 outfit?

    It just reinforces the perception that ZOS are about doing the least amount of work on the game to drag it out a bit longer.
  • EmEm_Oh
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    cyclonus11 wrote: »
    Oh, stingy - like giving way too little in a greedy manner, and not like the boxes are full of bees

    No, honey.
  • redlink1979
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    Dragonnord wrote: »
    The rewards are perfectly balanced.

    It's an event, we're supposed to get a few more good things compared to a normal day without any sort of event on it.

    If players want ordinary rewards, they can just do the ordinary tasks in-game.

    No one has asked to gain 50 crystals per dungeon ran, no one asked for 10 motif pages for 1 dungeon run. We just deserve a bit more than a crystal per dungeon during the event (1 crystal it's the USUAL undaunted reward for a daily random dungeon ran). 1 key as reward? If I want keys, I run pledges on normal days because they're are the USUAL reward.
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  • hakan
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    Lol i ran around 80 runs by now. still no drops except guaranteed ones. no masks either...
  • Jaxious79
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    Oh crap guys the GF is working hurry someone anyone throw something to complain about at the screen and see if it sticks.
  • stvwhitewalker
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    this farce of an event only confirms that ZOS do not give a [snip] about anything other than conning more and more money out of the few loyal players that are left ,its safe to say ESO is on its its last legs

    [edited for circumventing profanity filter]
    Edited by ZOS_RogerJ on January 10, 2020 3:28PM
  • Ryath_Waylander
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    Well, two vetHM's and our group is boasting a deshaan map, 2 transmute crystals, an undaunted reward, a key... Hell, no I'll just do my daily crafting instead and solo 1 FG1 for the one or two Opal pages that aren"t too hideous. Better things to do, especially as the GF was broken for us yesterday so our pre-made couldn't get the random xp. Don't tell me it's working now, of course it is. By the time I'm home from work and have cooked and eaten supper, it will be crippled again. Whatever.
  • Casul
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    Makes me happy I had 13 tickets saved up. Bought the llambris sword and shield and did one dungeon for the engine guardian dagger. I'm content.
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  • Dragonnord
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    Dragonnord wrote: »
    The rewards are perfectly balanced.

    It's an event, we're supposed to get a few more good things compared to a normal day without any sort of event on it.

    If players want ordinary rewards, they can just do the ordinary tasks in-game.

    No one has asked to gain 50 crystals per dungeon ran, no one asked for 10 motif pages for 1 dungeon run. We just deserve a bit more than a crystal per dungeon during the event (1 crystal it's the USUAL undaunted reward for a daily random dungeon ran). 1 key as reward? If I want keys, I run pledges on normal days because they're are the USUAL reward.

    Well, is there a Universal Book of Earth Events where it says what is mandatory on an event? There are even events in real life where you don't get anything at all, even not anything for free. Some events you just go, see stuff, gadgets, items, or eat, drink, dance, play sports and games, have fun, etc. and MANY TIMES you earn NOTHING.

    Being and event doesn't necessarily mean that you have to earn or be rewarded with something.

    We're getting legendary expensive rewards (guaranteed) in this event, plus other several small rewards that will add up to a good quantity at the end of the event.

    In my case, I'm 100% satisfied with the rewards for the 5 minutes runs.
     
  • Jaxious79
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    this farce of an event only confirms that ZOS do not give a [snip] about anything other than conning more and more money out of the few loyal players that are left ,its safe to say ESO is on its its last legs

    Yeah the top 2 or 3 mmorpg population wise today is on its last leg.

    Man you guys are hilarious! Just out of curiosity how many legs does ESO have cause those like you have been claiming this for years. If not legs how many nails are required for its coffin cause you've been pounding them in for years.

    Just give up your weird awkward crusade against a video game has failed move on go run over to some other "dying" mmo and spew your nonsense there. Eso isnt going anywhere.
    Edited by ZOS_RogerJ on January 10, 2020 3:28PM
  • tim99
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    maybe its bugged again? i've done over 100 dungeon runs by now, and have not seen any weapon pages at all.

    like this, its impossible to farm 20 weapon-pages in 4 days. most likely you will get 4 pages at the end, from the purple boxes each.
    why are you doing an event, where it is not even possible to complete the styles? for the tickets you can get 2 more pages, but 6 of 20 is still [snip]

    [edited for circumventing profanity filter]
    Edited by ZOS_RogerJ on January 10, 2020 3:29PM
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