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Cryptic - 1776 Phoenix Boxes - Zero Epic, please help.
borrisimoxxx
Member Posts: 19 Arc User
Cryptic,
I would like you to look into a problem with my character - Sel'Pretorius@Borrisimo
I have opened (thus far), 1776 Phoenix Boxes and I have received zero epic prizes, I consider this to be a bug as I have not yet found any player with the same failure rate and I cannot believe for a second that you would intentionally design the Phoenix System to not give a player the reward they are looking for after 1776 tries, it is simply unthinkable.
Perhaps it is a bug with how fast I was opening so many boxes in a short space of time, or perhaps the something to do with this being a relatively new character, i don't know but what i do know is that something just isn't right here, it can't be this hard to obtain an item that the entire player base got essentially for free during an event which was account-wide but is now character specific with this box.
I don't mind a bit of RNG Luck here and there but there has to be a limit and some common sense and in this situation, that limit has been far surpassed, nothing should take 1776+ tries to obtain in any game.
If it turns out that this is "Working as Intended" then that will truly be the end of the game for me as it's just not worth putting in so many hours for zero reward so i very much hope you do find a bug with my character and I either wake up with the Epic Prize Pack in my inventory which I have very much earned or my boxes/dilithium have been refunded so I can try again with the bug removed.
Thank You
Borrisimo
I would like you to look into a problem with my character - Sel'Pretorius@Borrisimo
I have opened (thus far), 1776 Phoenix Boxes and I have received zero epic prizes, I consider this to be a bug as I have not yet found any player with the same failure rate and I cannot believe for a second that you would intentionally design the Phoenix System to not give a player the reward they are looking for after 1776 tries, it is simply unthinkable.
Perhaps it is a bug with how fast I was opening so many boxes in a short space of time, or perhaps the something to do with this being a relatively new character, i don't know but what i do know is that something just isn't right here, it can't be this hard to obtain an item that the entire player base got essentially for free during an event which was account-wide but is now character specific with this box.
I don't mind a bit of RNG Luck here and there but there has to be a limit and some common sense and in this situation, that limit has been far surpassed, nothing should take 1776+ tries to obtain in any game.
If it turns out that this is "Working as Intended" then that will truly be the end of the game for me as it's just not worth putting in so many hours for zero reward so i very much hope you do find a bug with my character and I either wake up with the Epic Prize Pack in my inventory which I have very much earned or my boxes/dilithium have been refunded so I can try again with the bug removed.
Thank You
Borrisimo
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Thats not how odds work. You are extremely unlucky, but are not gauranteed a epic token after "X" amount. Also, "demanding" you get given a epic token? Wow, entitled much?
For the record, epic tokens do exist, as I had gotten one in my career (about 1000 boxes over 2 years).
Only because of the upgrade tokens is the Phoenix gambling bearable. All the other STO gambling should be abandoned & remember that's gambling mostly with real money with these type of odds or worse lol. Your example here is why I wish Cryptic would create a progressive algorithm for their gambling so eventually a player would win after so much losing if not lucky.
There was a problem that Cryptic had awhile back with Promo packs that if opened in succession too quickly I think they stopped rewarding lobi. Supposedly, Cryptic fixed it & helped the players that were affected by it. Your unfortunate example right here though is why I stopped gambling in STO, but I admit I still gamble on the Phoenix for the upgrades.
Well that is interesting, i did open these boxes as fast as humanly possible just double click spamming as I had so many too open, in general I am just in utter disbelief and disgust at how difficult it appears to be to obtain a single-character item that everyone got essentially for free and was account wide during the event,so far I have not found anyone else who was unable to get one epic token after as many boxes as me which very much makes me think there is a bug here, there is just no way that after 6 million dilithium that I cannot get one single little item, its not like these are uber-lockbox-12-console ships and all i want is the console, the ships will get deleted after anyway.
Same here, I only open for upgrades. Prior to today, I had received one Epic in about 1500 boxes. Today, I opened a stack of 40 and got 2 Epics.
It's just dumb luck man.
I wish I could sell the Epics since I don't have any use for them.
It truly is just dumb luck. I had won 4 epics over a couple of thousand boxes opened over the last couple of years. Today, just now in fact, I open 40 boxes and 1 of them is an epic. I also wish I could sell mine because I already have every single event ship.
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I turned them into VR tokens and got admiralty ships for a couple alts.
Yeah that would be my suggestion as well. While it would only unlock the ship on one character, at least you could get it
Both very smart ideas & suggestions imo.
Come on Cryptic, really need a response on this madness its just getting stupid now..
yesterday, I had my first epic token since I open this boxes (first time since the launch of this box), so everything can happen, the patience is necessary to "play" at this game.
i open these boxes for the upgrades, so I'm not disapointed. I'm rather disgusted by the upgrade system.
Yeah, play some Asian MMO's or gacha games, and you will learn something about long odds
Other than that LB and promo boxes are made so you have a very low chance to get anything, and there is no guarantee you'll get something in 100,200 or 300 boxes, so even if you buy those you need to be prepared for the worse case scenario, i buy those only when i need Lobi, for the rest is cheaper to buy on exchange.
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