Announcements - The Winter Mystery Box - Including New and Exclusive Microtransactions! - Forum

I got a full set! AND FOUR Wolves!!! Spent about 2k Points! WORTH IT! Too bad it will not be a Box Exclusive, lol, greedy me! "Your grandchildren will awaken screaming in memory of what I utter today!" - Path of Exile, Legacy Whispers of Doom Keystone Last edited by NaarJitsu#5740 on Dec 17, 2015, 9:14:26 PM	Posted by NaarJitsu#5740 on Dec 17, 2015, 9:14:09 PM Quote this Post
I'm honestly sad to get 400 times the same effects like portals, which are multi use. And yeah, no darned body armor after so many tries and so much money. Hey GGG, let me trade duplicates for armor please! :D I DID give you loads of cash for them :)	Posted by Pask#3443 on Dec 17, 2015, 9:24:58 PM Quote this Post
If you are gambling disposable income on these boxes, great, more power to you. I worry about people with a gambling addiction who will gamble their rent money or the money used to buy their kids food. If you do this, it's your own fault, but like any drug dealer, GGG is a facilitator. Some of you won't get this. You don't know someone who when confronted with an RNG based purchase loses all sense of reason and destroys their life.	Posted by Augusten#0864 on Dec 17, 2015, 9:31:49 PM Quote this Post
" Durentis wrote: 4k points 8 gloves 4 boots 2 helmets 1 chest 1 in 267 doesn't seem too unreasonable for the main piece of an armour set... In a few weeks the set will be in the store for 400-ish points. A few weeks after that, the set will be on sale for 200-ish points. I'm glad you enjoyed paying 4,000 points for it. Last edited by Augusten#0864 on Dec 17, 2015, 9:42:09 PM	Posted by Augusten#0864 on Dec 17, 2015, 9:40:59 PM Quote this Post
I'm really disappointed to hear that consumable items are apart of this mystery box. I think the Northern Light effect is neat and all, but IMO it doesn't have any place in something like this. I think this should be sold as a separate effect. Last edited by Nicksiren#6476 on Dec 17, 2015, 11:28:20 PM	Posted by Nicksiren#6476 on Dec 17, 2015, 11:27:19 PM Quote this Post
" GoatEatingToilet wrote: " Ozgwald wrote: Yet it works fine for dota 2 and other games. You go through the rng, sometimes lucky getting your item on the first try, sometimes overspending to get it, but no doubles unless you have an off chance on something very rare, thus overspending when you got the normal items already one time each. A system that is rng, but goes towards one goal thus more rewarding and it achieves a lot of sales. The success posts made in this thread immediately put me off. It is not like there is a mtx trade in this game that makes the gamble on an exclusive item worth it. The fact it holds no value apart for the owner considerably lowers the value of gambling. Please tell me what other smaller, independent game developer companies (i.e.: not Valve) are pretty much giving away money to players in the amounts I listed. When (and if) GGG can afford to make sure everyone gets all the box prizes without duplicates then I'm sure they will. Right now, though, these (MTX, Supporter packs) are the major means for them to fund the game and keep it running for us for free. It makes no sense to think that GGG would be in the black by giving away big priced items for 15 points with a practically guaranteed outcome that everyone would get everything eventually. Even if I spent $150 (1500 points, 100 boxes) to get everything and a few dupes with what you have proposed, GGG would still lose. Let's see... Arctic skull - 220 (1 box) Ice Crown - 95 (1 box) Arctic Footprints - 175 (1 box) Swordfish Ice Spear - 110 (1 box) Arctic Portal Effect - 150 (1 box) Arctic Armour Set - 420 (guess at whole set price as opposed to individual pieces) (4 boxes) Arctic Skull Hatred - 90 (1 box) Arctic Weapon Effect (250) (1 box) Those 11 boxes are worth 1510 points right there and I would still have 89 to open! Let's not forget that the pets are probably going to be over 100 points each (and I am likely understating the price), so GGG would undoubtedly lose tons of revenue with that plan, especially if I were lucky enough to get everything twice! Some have spent twice that amount and still no chest armour :( By the time you spend enough to get the armour, you've got literally dozens of absolutely useless duplicate MTXs. While I'm not going to complain that they do these box things (I just don't take part in them), I think it would be a nice thing for them to at least add basic functionality to organize the MTX stash. It's pretty ridiculous that this is the second one of these box sales and they still haven't done that. Last edited by BaggerX#0465 on Dec 18, 2015, 12:49:27 AM	Posted by BaggerX#0465 on Dec 18, 2015, 12:47:31 AM Quote this Post
" BaggerX wrote: Some have spent twice that amount and still no chest armour :( By the time you spend enough to get the armour, you've got literally dozens of absolutely useless duplicate MTXs. While I'm not going to complain that they do these box things (I just don't take part in them), I think it would be a nice thing for them to at least add basic functionality to organize the MTX stash. It's pretty ridiculous that this is the second one of these box sales and they still haven't done that. I've read some of the horror stories. People spending more points on these boxes than I have accumulated through support packs, haha. I'm not a big fan of these boxes, though it is rather easy to get sucked in once you open a few good ones, but I was just arguing the fact that they simply have to be as random as random can be for GGG to both put nicer MTX effects in them and make money off the whole thing in the process. It is, as many have said, a gamble for the buyer. As far as the ability to organize our microtransations tabs, I agree 100% with you on that (and this is actually the third mystery box sale they have had: St. Patrick's Day Mystery Box in March (1 day only), The Ember Mystery Box in July (3 days) and this Winter Mystery Box (21 days)). Last edited by GoatEatingToilet#3170 on Dec 18, 2015, 1:45:30 AM	Posted by GoatEatingToilet#3170 on Dec 18, 2015, 1:43:19 AM Alpha Member Quote this Post
I hope it will be possible to delete all the duplicates in my stash... I don´t want to have the points back, I wanted to spent them, it was my choice. But to see all those multiple MTX hurts my eyes, it´s sad that there is no possibility to stack them. :-(	Posted by Cowboy28#2353 on Dec 18, 2015, 1:43:23 AM Quote this Post
" Cowboy28 wrote: I hope it will be possible to delete all the duplicates in my stash... I don´t want to have the points back, I wanted to spent them, it was my choice. But to see all those multiple MTX hurts my eyes, it´s sad that there is no possibility to stack them. :-( Not everyone have money to waste like that	Posted by D_Caesar#1794 on Dec 18, 2015, 2:27:38 AM Quote this Post
ADVICE FOR THE STACKING PROBLEM An annoying but working way to stack all this double effects is to use them on the Skill Gem/Equipment/Hideout and then reclaim it. When you do it this way, it automaticly stacks it if this is possible. For excample, if you got a few arctic armour effects (i got 5 of them) it may stack them in more than one stack but if you do it often enough it works and in the end you got all theses things stacked. Maybe this is a known solution but i just figured it out yesterday and thought i'd share it anyway. btw, would be really nice to do something with this double effects. they are really useless the way they are at the moment... and i got no luck with the wolf... RNGjesus didnt like me very much...	Posted by Crimmson#7498 on Dec 18, 2015, 4:57:29 AM Quote this Post