(Updated) The loot box system is horrible, I quit.

[Ruka Erika ♥️🐿]

I just spent, $52 trying to get an outfit and didn't get any , I quit.

I am sad it’s gone even though I did quit, after moving on . Thinking back it was a fun time.

[x0Z3ro0x]

Your post is like the little old lady who gambled for a chance to win a car. She played slots trying and trying to win the car. 3 months went by, no one had won the car and the little old lady was still playing. All said and done she FINALLY won the car.

She spent over $60,000 on slots before she won the car. The car that is worth $14.5k brand new.

Moral of the story? Don't gamble what you aren't willing to lose. There are DOZENS of costumes for VERY cheap that you can buy outirght, but instead you bought loot boxes because they were cheaper and yet you ended up paying 3x as much and still got nothing. At least the old lady got her car...

[Gralzeim]

Yeah, it can be frustrating when a cosmetic item you want is locked behind a random chance box.

But, you did choose to take that chance.

Granted, it would be great if they were required by law to show the percentage chances of getting each item, but so far that's not something you tend to see often (recently, Overwatch was required by Chinese law to show that data for their boxes, so maybe that sort of thing will spread to other countries and be required of all games with loot boxes, eventually).



On a side note, aren't cosmetic items like that postable in the auction house? If so, you could always check and see if the thing you want is being sold by another player.

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Originally posted by Ruka Erika:

Originally posted by Gralzeim:

China passed that odds law as there are many people that spend huge sums of money and to make it fair they require it by law to show the odds for any game with a random loot box mechanic.

I didn't see that item in the auction house, if I did would have just gotten it there.

This game wasn't free to play when it first launched, infact they charged you monthly to play it. Now that it's free, devs needed to come up with a way to make a profit to keep the servers up. When people complain about how its pay to win they are being selfish. You can't expect an MMO to be well made free, it cost money. So they put this feature in to get money. Sorry you blew through 50$. Let it be a lesson for you, if you're not 100% sure you are getting the item you want, then don't buy it. You can't fault a game thats FREE TO PLAY to have a slimey feature such as mystery boxes to keep this game afloat.

Also I don't recommend you gambling, you'd be homeless within a month

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@Ruka Erika

Outfits werent really thing when I quit around launch. But yeah you used your real money, I assume to buy cosmetics. WAs more balanced imo

[x0Z3ro0x]

Originally posted by Ruka Erika:

How do you just buy the costume ?

Buy them outright from the tera store, if they are loot box locked then don't go to the broker, advertise on the trade chat or global and you get bet your ass for the right price someone WILL sell that costume you want.

Loot boxes are designed with one things in mind. TO recover money for EnMasse. Do people win? Yes they do. But not bearly as much as you would think. Stay away from loot boxes unless you want to donate all your cash for nothing.

[Crunch]

You'll get over it though. Dumping into loot boxes seems more friendly than DN eggs

[Darjir]

Sell the stuff you got out fo the boxes. Buy the outfit. To get rng box outfits you sell emp, then use the ingame currency to buy the outfit from the broker.

Don't blame you for disliking the system. Its awkward and often results in frustration. If you enjoy the gameplay aspects, I'd keep playing but never spend any more money. You can farm gold and use it bo buy nearly everything in the cash shop.