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doriangreighdoriangreigh Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 707 Arc User
I have never been so disgusted with this game. I enjoy spending large amount of times playing, but there are times when your gambling/RNG really make me want never see this game again even despite the enjoyable people that play.

My birthday was recent and I decided what the hey I spend a large amount of time playing this game and decided to go ahead and spend $150 and buy 3 of the 50key/coalward pack. I have to say this is this worst case of customer abuse I have ever seen. Gambling should be illegal in every game. When hard earned money is spent there should be adequate compensation. After 150 lockboxes I did not get a single Minsc or either mount option. I did not even get a single R10 enchantment. The best things I got were 200 mount tokens 130 companion tokens and 8900 trade bars. Honestly money better spent would have been flat trading in $150 on AD at the exchange at least i'd feel like i was helping other players.

I believe Cryptic needs to take a serious look at lockboxes. They have made some decent changes but these lockboxes are the worst. I do not feel cryptic is doing any favors or justice to those who spend real money. And maybe there need to be further looking at moving away form lockboxes and do more to encourage people to buy zen and sell for AD to help clear that back log. You have already taken steps for this by removing a lot of old services you could just buy with zen, start looking at lock boxes the same way, maybe remove keys from Zen and make them AD only, put a daily limit on how many can be bought and if you want to buy keys you can sell zen for the AD to get them or just clue into the fact that you are better off selling zen to AD farmers than buying a gambling key.

You have already made ward use have an escalating chance at getting a guaranteed result, you need to be doing this for lockboxes. Or would you like to see a list of realistic things people can do with their money other than give it Neverwinter.

Do something about this horrible RNG fest with lock boxes. I want to feel like you get something, it would have been nice to at least gotten a couple of mincs. In fact after 150 boxes i'd expect that if i didn't have 2- 3 mincs at least 1 of the mount options, rather than a hoard of enchantments that will barely fetch 30k AD. There was a time when you could sell lockbox contents to nearly recoup your expense of the key but any more its feeling like cryptic is telling people $1000 every quarter from paying players or go elsewhere.

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  • arazith07arazith07 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,719 Arc User
    A lot of the value in lockboxes are actually in the trade bars, that 8900 trade bars can let you upgrade several mounts and companions to Mythic. The most recent change of lockboxes that added increased amounts of the trade bars actually brought their value back up to being valuable.

    You said it yourself though, lock boxes are gambling, just because you gambled and felt like you lost doesn't mean it's a scam. It's pure RNG and pure gamble.
  • silente07#2597 silente07 Member Posts: 389 Arc User
    Well if the drop rate is that bad. I’ll make sure the Alliance knows not to buy keys.
  • greywyndgreywynd Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 7,083 Arc User
    150 is a very small sample size to begin with.
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  • kalina311kalina311 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 2,082 Arc User

    I have never been so disgusted with this game. I enjoy spending large amount of times playing, but there are times when your gambling/RNG really make me want never see this game again even despite the enjoyable people that play.

    My birthday was recent and I decided what the hey I spend a large amount of time playing this game and decided to go ahead and spend $150 and buy 3 of the 50key/coalward pack. I have to say this is this worst case of customer abuse I have ever seen. Gambling should be illegal in every game. When hard earned money is spent there should be adequate compensation. After 150 lockboxes I did not get a single Minsc or either mount option. I did not even get a single R10 enchantment. The best things I got were 200 mount tokens 130 companion tokens and 8900 trade bars. Honestly money better spent would have been flat trading in $150 on AD at the exchange at least i'd feel like i was helping other players.

    I believe Cryptic needs to take a serious look at lockboxes. They have made some decent changes but these lockboxes are the worst. I do not feel cryptic is doing any favors or justice to those who spend real money. And maybe there need to be further looking at moving away form lockboxes and do more to encourage people to buy zen and sell for AD to help clear that back log. You have already taken steps for this by removing a lot of old services you could just buy with zen, start looking at lock boxes the same way, maybe remove keys from Zen and make them AD only, put a daily limit on how many can be bought and if you want to buy keys you can sell zen for the AD to get them or just clue into the fact that you are better off selling zen to AD farmers than buying a gambling key.

    You have already made ward use have an escalating chance at getting a guaranteed result, you need to be doing this for lockboxes. Or would you like to see a list of realistic things people can do with their money other than give it Neverwinter.

    Do something about this horrible RNG fest with lock boxes. I want to feel like you get something, it would have been nice to at least gotten a couple of mincs. In fact after 150 boxes i'd expect that if i didn't have 2- 3 mincs at least 1 of the mount options, rather than a hoard of enchantments that will barely fetch 30k AD. There was a time when you could sell lockbox contents to nearly recoup your expense of the key but any more its feeling like cryptic is telling people $1000 every quarter from paying players or go elsewhere.

    I have never been so disgusted with this game. I enjoy spending large amount of times playing, but there are times when your gambling/RNG really make me want never see this game again even despite the enjoyable people that play.

    My birthday was recent and I decided what the hey I spend a large amount of time playing this game and decided to go ahead and spend $150 and buy 3 of the 50key/coalward pack. I have to say this is this worst case of customer abuse I have ever seen. Gambling should be illegal in every game. When hard earned money is spent there should be adequate compensation. After 150 lockboxes I did not get a single Minsc or either mount option. I did not even get a single R10 enchantment. The best things I got were 200 mount tokens 130 companion tokens and 8900 trade bars. Honestly money better spent would have been flat trading in $150 on AD at the exchange at least i'd feel like i was helping other players.

    I believe Cryptic needs to take a serious look at lockboxes. They have made some decent changes but these lockboxes are the worst. I do not feel cryptic is doing any favors or justice to those who spend real money. And maybe there need to be further looking at moving away form lockboxes and do more to encourage people to buy zen and sell for AD to help clear that back log. You have already taken steps for this by removing a lot of old services you could just buy with zen, start looking at lock boxes the same way, maybe remove keys from Zen and make them AD only, put a daily limit on how many can be bought and if you want to buy keys you can sell zen for the AD to get them or just clue into the fact that you are better off selling zen to AD farmers than buying a gambling key.

    You have already made ward use have an escalating chance at getting a guaranteed result, you need to be doing this for lockboxes. Or would you like to see a list of realistic things people can do with their money other than give it Neverwinter.

    Do something about this horrible RNG fest with lock boxes. I want to feel like you get something, it would have been nice to at least gotten a couple of mincs. In fact after 150 boxes i'd expect that if i didn't have 2- 3 mincs at least 1 of the mount options, rather than a hoard of enchantments that will barely fetch 30k AD. There was a time when you could sell lockbox contents to nearly recoup your expense of the key but any more its feeling like cryptic is telling people $1000 every quarter from paying players or go elsewhere.

    I have never been so disgusted with this game. I enjoy spending large amount of times playing, but there are times when your gambling/RNG really make me want never see this game again even despite the enjoyable people that play.

    My birthday was recent and I decided what the hey I spend a large amount of time playing this game and decided to go ahead and spend $150 and buy 3 of the 50key/coalward pack. I have to say this is this worst case of customer abuse I have ever seen. Gambling should be illegal in every game. When hard earned money is spent there should be adequate compensation. After 150 lockboxes I did not get a single Minsc or either mount option. I did not even get a single R10 enchantment. The best things I got were 200 mount tokens 130 companion tokens and 8900 trade bars. Honestly money better spent would have been flat trading in $150 on AD at the exchange at least i'd feel like i was helping other players.

    I believe Cryptic needs to take a serious look at lockboxes. They have made some decent changes but these lockboxes are the worst. I do not feel cryptic is doing any favors or justice to those who spend real money. And maybe there need to be further looking at moving away form lockboxes and do more to encourage people to buy zen and sell for AD to help clear that back log. You have already taken steps for this by removing a lot of old services you could just buy with zen, start looking at lock boxes the same way, maybe remove keys from Zen and make them AD only, put a daily limit on how many can be bought and if you want to buy keys you can sell zen for the AD to get them or just clue into the fact that you are better off selling zen to AD farmers than buying a gambling key.

    You have already made ward use have an escalating chance at getting a guaranteed result, you need to be doing this for lockboxes. Or would you like to see a list of realistic things people can do with their money other than give it Neverwinter.

    Do something about this horrible RNG fest with lock boxes. I want to feel like you get something, it would have been nice to at least gotten a couple of mincs. In fact after 150 boxes i'd expect that if i didn't have 2- 3 mincs at least 1 of the mount options, rather than a hoard of enchantments that will barely fetch 30k AD. There was a time when you could sell lockbox contents to nearly recoup your expense of the key but any more its feeling like cryptic is telling people $1000 every quarter from paying players or go elsewhere.

    Happy birthday from Cryptic lol LOL
  • greywyndgreywynd Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 7,083 Arc User
    The game also needs to make money.
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  • rubytruerubytrue Member Posts: 582 Arc User

    greywynd said:

    150 is a very small sample size to begin with.

    I get people are all into stats and having a sample size of like 10,000 tries, but everyone including devs need to be aware this is a game for fun, not a casino, and spending $150 regardless of sample size should get you not only whatever is top tier in those boxes, but also a pretty sizeable feeling of getting value out of it. I don't understand why people go all stats when it comes to value of a game. People should not have to spend $10,000 to up their sample size to prove how bad the RNG on this product is. Even buying boxes of D&D minis with random rare inside still has a guarantee of a single rare its more of a matter of which rare you get. And even if you spend $100 by a dozen boxes of minis you have some real tangible value. At best the person who said 8900 trade bars would upgrade mounts and comps to mythic is probably the only redeeming quality here and even at that its a situation of holding out until there is a trade bar ale so its a 2 bar / coin trade or buying a slew of R15 stones or enchants which eats through trade bars pretty fast too.

    Had the boxes i opened averaged 500 trade bars per box or even 250 i'd feel like i got something, but 8900 / 150 lock boxes is 60 trade bars per box. Considering real life money was spent a video game should not be this bad on gambling for in game products. Again this a game not a freaking casino.

    It is my opinion that most games new from release are what about 60 - 70, assuming any expansions maybe another 20 - 30 per expansion. The pricing in this game is outrageous and all under the guise "people can grind AD and trade for zen" well if you want people to buy zen to sell to the grinders ditch the lock boxes and let the people who pay get same real value instead of gambling on some horrendous RNG which the game has in abundance and just put a bunch of HAMSTER for sale every month that can be bought for AD or make the zen shop a rotation monthly or quarterly feed of new stuff, get it now while its in stock sort of thing, and get rid of this lock box garbage. I'd much rather buy an account wide comp or mount pack from zen store than deal with this poor excuse of a loot bag called a lockbox.
    I hate to break it to you, but...you could of spent that $150 and purchased a year and a half of VIP; that would of netted you 540 keys. Or...you could of bought AD outright from the Zen exchange (would of made someone happy) and used that AD to purchase a Mythic Pegasus, Legendary Pegasus, and a Minsc...and still have about 6M AD to spend on whatever (if you had bought P-Wards and sold those, you would of had around 14M AD left over after the mount and companion purchases). Bottom line is this: only open lockboxes from the "free" keys from VIP; never pay for the keys directly. Sorry about the bummer outcome of the lockboxes on your birthday.
  • reg1981reg1981 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,435 Arc User
    I'm sorry you had a bad experience with your keys but it's all luck. I've bought 20 keys twice since this lockbox came out and both batches of 20 keys pulled the Mythic Pegasus. First one was on the 2nd key and I sold because the price was around 5.5 Mil, second one was on the 14th key and I equipped because the price had come down.

    The whole purpose of these boxes is to try your luck. If you want a guarantee you need to directly buy what you want and not roll the dice with the boxes.
  • kalina311kalina311 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 2,082 Arc User
    edited August 2021
    first off the key pack should have been 5000 zen minus a 20% off the store coupon from invoking from one of your alts
    NEVER PURCHASE ANYTHING FROM THE ZEN MARKET WITHOUT AT LEAST 20% OFF COUPON that you get for free from invoking bags saved up

    second of all each pack came with a coal ward right ? that you could have flipped on the auction to recoop another portion of your luck / spending / investment or used it yourself

    all those trade bars can be converted to items that can be flipped on the auction house or for your own personal use of companion or mount upgrades insignias etc .

    i dont understand nor believe why you would buy 3 very expensive 50$ packs at once ..what if you hit it big in pack one why would you even need to have bought pack 2 or 3 ...something is fishy here no ?

    was it gambler fallacy at that point when you lost on pack one and did not get a jackpot then bought another pack then lost again and then bought another 3rd pack right ?? and full price yet each time with no coupon for ...let me spell it out ten dollars off per pack ?? !! right LOL you spent 30 usd extra that you did not have to

    let alone had you used 40% off individual key coupons in the zen market as well that you get for free from invoking !

    maybe control your own "luck" a little bit better next time or control your expectations

    by my calculation you could have recouped 50-75% of the "loss/ gamble " of what you put in easy had you done it right

    the tradebar vendor and certain items he sells are very very valuable at the moment ..insignias / mount and companion upgrade tokens to name a few

    cryptic took advantage of your greed and impulsiveness and lack of strategic purchasing and won

    and you came to the forums with buyers remorse .

    you could always contest the credit card transaction : D and have your account permanently banned and removed but you would get your money back :D
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  • regenerderegenerde Member Posts: 3,041 Arc User
    Well, there is also the 50% discount coupon from the Neverember's Recruitment or Summer Festival event... which means you could have gotten one pack at half price, and the others as mentioned above with a 20% discount each.

    Lessons to be learned, always look for discounts, either from coupons or from seasonal sales, and when it comes down to lockbox keys, stick to buying ViP and use the daily keys from it.
    Even when you only pull HAMSTER from the lockboxes, you'll still have the ViP perks, and the option to spend your Tarmalune Trade Bars during a sale, which will give you back some of your investment.

    Anyway, you're not the first and you won't be the last who thought they would get something good out of those lockbox key packs... i tried them twice i think, and never touched them again.
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  • blargskullblargskull Member Posts: 514 Arc User
    Ehyo! Opening 150 lockboxes is awesome you should ...run away buy more lock boxes! Don't wait to ... get away while you can buy more zen for cash and more key or VIP it's a TRAP! for yourself. You know this is the best way to save yourself earn massive rewards! :trollface:

    Just killing time...
  • rockster#6227 rockster Member Posts: 1,860 Arc User
    Once upon a time I did open lockboxes. The first kind I opened were Rusted Iron lockboxes and the first mount I had drop was an Apparatus of Kwalish. Then I got another one. Then for a long long time I got nothing really of worth until one day I got a Tenser's Disc drop when it was the most desirable and sought-after mount in the game. Then nothing of worth. After this I got VIP and got it up to rank 12 after a year doing it monthly and had it for a long time after that (stopped paying for that ages ago and have no regrets) and used my daily key to open all the accumulating lockboxes I was collecting and which were taking up all my bank space, but never got anything truly wonderful from them. The general consensus has been for a very long time that the drop rate for any of the top items people really want is about 1%. I've never been a gambler my entire life so I'm not really going to chase things in this way and waste resources or real money on just chances, but even if I was, 1% drop rate for the things I wanted would not be enough to entice me anyway. I have literally 1,000's of old lockboxes sitting there now. I keep collecting them in stacks and do nothing with them. Cryptic loves its lockboxes though. Have you ever noticed that while drops can be bugged and things stop coming as in recently, the lockboxes are never affected and keep coming like candy. They will never abandon their approach to them or how keys work, it's their biggest money spinner imo.

    And Happy Birthday. :-)
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  • kharkov58kharkov58 Member Posts: 667 Arc User
    Testing on preview server has shown that the odds of getting the top prize is about .5% at best.
  • doriangreighdoriangreigh Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 707 Arc User

    Once upon a time I did open lockboxes. The first kind I opened were Rusted Iron lockboxes and the first mount I had drop was an Apparatus of Kwalish. Then I got another one. Then for a long long time I got nothing really of worth until one day I got a Tenser's Disc drop when it was the most desirable and sought-after mount in the game. Then nothing of worth. After this I got VIP and got it up to rank 12 after a year doing it monthly and had it for a long time after that (stopped paying for that ages ago and have no regrets) and used my daily key to open all the accumulating lockboxes I was collecting and which were taking up all my bank space, but never got anything truly wonderful from them. The general consensus has been for a very long time that the drop rate for any of the top items people really want is about 1%. I've never been a gambler my entire life so I'm not really going to chase things in this way and waste resources or real money on just chances, but even if I was, 1% drop rate for the things I wanted would not be enough to entice me anyway. I have literally 1,000's of old lockboxes sitting there now. I keep collecting them in stacks and do nothing with them. Cryptic loves its lockboxes though. Have you ever noticed that while drops can be bugged and things stop coming as in recently, the lockboxes are never affected and keep coming like candy. They will never abandon their approach to them or how keys work, it's their biggest money spinner imo.

    And Happy Birthday. :-)

    For years I kept old lock boxes, a lot of old ones for a while were good sellers, I had an alt that was selling them periodically, would turn out a few hundred k AD once in awhile but eventually that lapses and I just sell for copper. Now that Alt sells all the dye packs I had gotten over the years, i still have stacks of 99 to go through.

  • kalina311kalina311 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 2,082 Arc User
    edited August 2021
    kharkov58 said:

    Testing on preview server has shown that the odds of getting the top prize is about .5% at best.

    .5% also the percentage of people that actually seem know what the odds are :D
    .5% is also the percentage of people that actually read the forums :D
  • chidionchidion Member Posts: 439 Arc User
    edited August 2021
    greywynd said:

    The game also needs to make money.

    I wonder how much money Cryptic/Neverwinter would make if they decided to sell what people actually wanted - instead of 'a chance' that the person would get what they wanted if they opened enough lockboxes?

    If someone wants a purple bear mount (as an example) they spend x-amount of zen and get that purple bear mount, instead of opening lockbox after lockbox on the chance they might actually get what they want... not to mention if they get the pink griffin (another example) and already have, or don't want the pink griffin then they have to fool around getting rid of it even if that's not something they want to fool with.

    I get it, some people feel they are compensated for not getting the purple bear mount (as an example) if they get trade bars or something they can try to sell in the auction house... but that's not me, nor quite a few people I know. Some people actually enjoy playing the game, going on quests, running dungeons, etc.. They have no desire to become some kind of professions manufacturing master or professional auction house trader and the more time they have to spend with the undesirable tasks of professions or auction house trading the less time they have to do what they enjoy... play the game.

    It's good Neverwinter has the professions manufacturing and auction house trading - for people who enjoy that kind of thing, but for the people who just want to excell at the quests and storylines while they try to obtain specific items to complete a collection the only method available to them is buying lockboxes and taking a chance they will eventually get what they're hoping for.

    While I'm on the subject, I wonder how much revenue Cryptic/Neverwinter would make if players were able to buy specific items like discontinued gear, mounts, companions, etc. from one of the Neverwinter merchants (zen/tradebar/seals)?

    I know a quite few people that have some pieces of gear (armor/weapons) that they just can't get anymore and would really like to complete the set, but of course they can't because those items have been discontinued in the game. Players can no longer quest for those items and they can't buy them from any merchant.

    Of course Cryptic/Neverwinter wants people to spend money to help finance the game but if they are going to severely restrict the items available for purchase or insist the only way to attempt to get the items a person wants is to gamble by opening lockbox after lockbox only to spend money, become frustrated and decide it isn't worth it so stop spending money... I feel they're just discouraging a portion of the players from contributing to the financial support of the game by limiting the ways for people to provide revenue, which in some cases turns out to be the lockbox gamble - or nothing.

    ¢¢
  • armadeonxarmadeonx Member Posts: 4,952 Arc User
    I suspect that the number of players buying lockbox keys has dropped dramatically in recent times as players become more aware of the negative cost to reward ratio.

    I think this is a causal factor behind the recent changes to both the M21 levelling system and in M20 moving a huge percentage of stats to companions: I.e. moving players quickly to the point where they need to buy from the zen store for upgrades & needing tons of upgrade tokens for 10 mythic companions.
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  • reg1981reg1981 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,435 Arc User
    edited August 2021
    chidion said:


    If someone wants a purple bear mount (as an example) they spend x-amount of zen and get that purple bear mount, instead of opening lockbox after lockbox on the chance they might actually get what they want... not to mention if they get the pink griffin (another example) and already have, or don't want the pink griffin then they have to fool around getting rid of it even if that's not something they want to fool with.
    ¢¢

    Your purple bear is going to show up in 1 of 2 other places though. It's either going to be in the mounts section of the zen store, or it's going to be on the auction house. The latter is more likely so others who want to roll the dice will still buy lockbox keys and have a market to sell what they don't want to use!

    Another point to make is if someone has zen and wants that purple bear bad enough, in theory they will exchange their zen on the exchange for astral diamonds, thus keeping the zax flowing as well.
  • mentinmindmakermentinmindmaker Member Posts: 1,489 Arc User
    edited August 2021
    kharkov58 said:

    Testing on preview server has shown that the odds of getting the top prize is about .5% at best.

    Tests on the older lockboxes have shown 0.15% droprate for the top prize mount.

    But if you assume 0.5% droprate: You will need 200 lockboxes to have a 50% chance of getting the top prize drop. So you should not really expect it from 150 rolls. And as with other gambling, there never are any guarantees. If you engage in gambling you really need to understand your probability theory. Probability theory is the area or math that is dealing with random chances.

    And you didn't do it that badly anyways: Tradebars spent correctly are worth between 1.5k and 2.5k AD each. So you gained tradebars worth 13.35M AD using 1.5K per. That corresponds to 17.8k Zen for a gain of 2.8k Zen. And that is calculated using lowest tradebar value and does not look at all the other sellable goods you got. It would have been even better if you used coupons to purchase the keys. If you calculate in everything AND use coupons, I would guess you will be approaching a doubling of the Zen invested.

    Even if you did not get the mount you desired(which should have been expected), you have made a nice net earning from opening these lockboxes. If you sell off everything you should have plenty of AD to buy a mount off the AH.

  • rockster#6227 rockster Member Posts: 1,860 Arc User
    In the world we live in...

    "Among the many treasures inside, the Magnificent Resurgence Lockbox offers a chance to get your hands on Tenser’s Floating Disk, unlock the Metallic Ancestry Dragonborn Race, or bring the Owlbear Cub as a companion on your adventures!"

    In a more transparent world...

    "Among the many treasures inside, the Magnificent Resurgence Lockbox offers a 0.5% chance to get your hands on Tenser’s Floating Disk, unlock the Metallic Ancestry Dragonborn Race, or bring the Owlbear Cub as a companion on your adventures!"
    Apparently pointing-out the bleeding obvious is a 'personal attack'.
  • regenerderegenerde Member Posts: 3,041 Arc User

    kharkov58 said:

    Testing on preview server has shown that the odds of getting the top prize is about .5% at best.

    Tests on the older lockboxes have shown 0.15% droprate for the top prize mount.

    But if you assume 0.5% droprate: You will need 200 lockboxes to have a 50% chance of getting the top prize drop. So you should not really expect it from 150 rolls. And as with other gambling, there never are any guarantees. If you engage in gambling you really need to understand your probability theory. Probability theory is the area or math that is dealing with random chances.
    ...
    Well, i might be wrong, but i think the chance for getting something good from a lockbox does not increase witch each lockbox opened in NWO. Trove has something like it, a "Karma" system, after xy opened lockboxes you'll get a win, and the counter resets again after that.

    Anyway, i actually like those key deals, they keep the prices for account wide mounts rather low. B)
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  • mushellkamushellka Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 357 Arc User
    regenerde said:

    kharkov58 said:

    Testing on preview server has shown that the odds of getting the top prize is about .5% at best.

    Tests on the older lockboxes have shown 0.15% droprate for the top prize mount.

    But if you assume 0.5% droprate: You will need 200 lockboxes to have a 50% chance of getting the top prize drop. So you should not really expect it from 150 rolls. And as with other gambling, there never are any guarantees. If you engage in gambling you really need to understand your probability theory. Probability theory is the area or math that is dealing with random chances.
    ...
    Well, i might be wrong, but i think the chance for getting something good from a lockbox does not increase witch each lockbox opened in NWO. Trove has something like it, a "Karma" system, after xy opened lockboxes you'll get a win, and the counter resets again after that.

    Anyway, i actually like those key deals, they keep the prices for account wide mounts rather low. B)
    That's exactly right. You still have the same chance as when you started.
    That's why I'm always amused by the popularity of videos "showing" droprate of anything.
    Better to feed the troll than listen to the idiot .
  • rockster#6227 rockster Member Posts: 1,860 Arc User
    Yup, the % chance for a drop applies fresh for each box opened and it does not accumulate as you open more. It's fixed. Many discussions in PE zone chat have taken place on this issue.
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  • onlymatonlymat Member Posts: 350 Arc User

    I have never been so disgusted with this game. I enjoy spending large amount of times playing, but there are times when your gambling/RNG really make me want never see this game again even despite the enjoyable people that play.

    My birthday was recent and I decided what the hey I spend a large amount of time playing this game and decided to go ahead and spend $150 and buy 3 of the 50key/coalward pack. I have to say this is this worst case of customer abuse I have ever seen. Gambling should be illegal in every game. When hard earned money is spent there should be adequate compensation. After 150 lockboxes I did not get a single Minsc or either mount option. I did not even get a single R10 enchantment. The best things I got were 200 mount tokens 130 companion tokens and 8900 trade bars. Honestly money better spent would have been flat trading in $150 on AD at the exchange at least i'd feel like i was helping other players.

    Seriously? You KNOW Lockboxes are gambling! You still bought them and got nothing and now you complain?
    With 150$ you could have bought account wide companions or mounts (mythic account wide mounts are very cheap).

    You play the game for years you knew exactly what you did and you did a mistake! First its your own fault.
    I don't know what happened, but people know things are bad - do them anyways and then complain?

    You used 150$ for gambling - you lost and thats it. If you don't like gambling - don't do it!
    And like I said there are other options to spend money on the game to get something!
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