Saberkeel and Worm Cult pages being simultaneously available from both the event reward boxes and the Bag of Jubilee Yesteryear is weird and sets bad precedent for event rewards going forward.
Grab bags ought to be a firm thing. Make the decision to retire old items, let there be an in-game market for them, and continue to make them available as BoP during events with the catch-up bags. That encourages players to participate in events, allows a healthy trading market, and allows players to reliably get items by spending Tickets/Crowns during events.
Reshuffling old rewards into the current loot drastically undermines perceived value from events. Without healthy markets for event items, people don't have much reason to participate in events past what they directly need for themselves, and I see it all the time where people stop after just a day or two. As a trading guild leader, I cannot say with any confidence that guildies will benefit from farming events since rewards mostly take up inventory space and are just as likely to decrease in value over time as increase.
On a related note, the grab bags are presented poorly, and the following changes would help to better encourage Crown purchases:
–add to the tooltip a list of what is contained and/or a dynamic completion tracker (e.g. "You've collected 34/77 of these rewards")
–allow multiple to be purchased simultaneously
–increase the cap on Event Tickets to accommodate bulk purchases
This is probably part of a bigger issue of not having enough interesting rewards during events--events would benefit greatly from expanding Impressario options.
Edited by JHartEllis on February 14, 2023 4:02PM