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Lockboxes - Do you open them all?
leematon
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I've recently purchased more ZEN because the last time I played (several weeks ago) I had spent a lot on enchanted keys to open a stash of lockboxes I'd accumulated.
No sooner had I purchased more enchanted keys with my ZEN that more lockboxes were being dropped thick and fast.
One question I would like to ask you guys is do you open all of your lockboxes? After all, this game is essentially a FTP with a 'pay as you go' option for those who want cosmetic benefits. Forgive me if I'm missing something here, but with the cost as much as it is to purchase enchanted keys, this game can quickly become very expensive if you opened every single lockbox dropped by the game. Using AD isn't much of an alternative either, as AD to ZEN conversion rates are pretty poor.
No sooner had I purchased more enchanted keys with my ZEN that more lockboxes were being dropped thick and fast.
One question I would like to ask you guys is do you open all of your lockboxes? After all, this game is essentially a FTP with a 'pay as you go' option for those who want cosmetic benefits. Forgive me if I'm missing something here, but with the cost as much as it is to purchase enchanted keys, this game can quickly become very expensive if you opened every single lockbox dropped by the game. Using AD isn't much of an alternative either, as AD to ZEN conversion rates are pretty poor.
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No, nobody opens their lockboxes, because right now, they drop at stupid high rate and the prizes are really not good, still, im a ludopath so i open tons and tons of them (about 100 in last 2 weeks for example) but i do it with ingame earned money.
By 'ingame earned money' I take it you mean earned AD converted to ZEN? As far as I know, enchanted keys cannot be purchased with gold.
Especially not the purple chests. They cost a lot of the most valuable asset in this game: Time. 18 hours a piece. Plus you need rare resources that 99% of the time will sell for far more then then what youd get back.
As such they are simply nto worth opening.
Better off focusing on making a lot more blue chests (which have a chance to open as purples).
Plus the purpose plain and simple can't drop "better" loot then the blues. It's exactly the same stuff, just slightly more of it, if your lucky.
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They want you to have easy access to boxes, and drops arnt just the only means of getting one. There should be no reason AT ALL to feel compelled to open every box that drops as loot. Where there is practically a "pull here for box" dispenser already in place.
Offer me a product, and if its good, and i'm interested, and the price is right, I will happily purchase it. But offer me a chance at something, and I will never take the bait. Sadly, I seem to be in the minority, the keys are big sellers. My little personal lockbox protest means next to nothing. I know nothing is going to change, this is how its going to continue to be. But a statement is still a statement even if it is unheard or ignored.
100% agreed with this post. I've never opened one and I never will.
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However, unlike some others in this thread, I do not begrudge people for wanting a little bit of chance or drama or directly supporting the game developer with this method. Keys are not even offered as rewards anywhere in the game, not even during events! That is far less "in-your-face" than in other MMOs.
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Personally I feel it would be better if keys WERE occasionally dropped in-game as rewards. It would burn a smaller hole in the pockets of curious players if nothing else.
This. I can't imagine being obsessive enough to open all the boxes that drop.
Sure, I've opened a few (and also in Star Trek), but that's mostly been with zen earned in-game via the exchange. (And a lot less boxes in Neverwinter - they just don't have that much interesting in them.)
I'm perfectly happy to ignore the boxes that drop, periodically mailing them all to one character who saves a stack in their bank. Just in case of future desire (and/or future selling on the auction).
The drop rate on the boxes is obnoxious. I often will find 2 in one encounter. I think they should make it so that a key does drop once in a blue moon as a rare find and this might inspire people to buy a few.
I assume mod 2 will have a new type of box and i hope it will offer something better that the fey boxes. Unless you are going for a stag or the spider companion, i see no reason to open the new boxes.
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What I find amusing is that in the 3 months or so that I played NW prior to fey wild, I scored probably about 100 or so Nightmare lockboxes. A month of Feywild? Near 300. Hope they eventually start selling well on the AH, maybe a few months to a year from now =P.