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

" ThePCMasterRace wrote: This event is very interesting, mainly because this is gambling and it is a gamble where the odds are unknown and many of the participants are children or young adults. While this may not actually step over the line to illegal, it is definitely immoral. GGG, Allowing people to believe that these "exclusive" prizes are reasonably obtainable, asking them to enter into an unknown gamble, and then stacking the odds against them, is not a morally justifiable action. Please help your "supporters" be responsible and provide information and odds when asking them to gamble "points" purchased with real money. If you plan on buying these winter boxes, please be responsible and set a budget. Gambling advice is everywhere and they all cover what you have said, we all know this, this is more a personality thing not an information thing Few holes in your argument. Most kids wont have money to throw at this game like some people so i doubt they would get more then a box or two and the adults here arent some bar drunks, if they want to buy boxes that is their adult decison. Its nice you care for other people but this is not illegal or immoral in the least, you obviously just dont like the idea which is your biased opinion. Also, im sure they can bar themselves, GGG is pretty helpful :). Definitions: Path of Exile; A world where you are free from pay to win. Unlimited builds, vast enemy mods and a strong end game. Unrivaled community in real life and rewarding developers. Path of exile is one of the best ARPGS created/ Died 25 times to 1 boss in Path of Exile and would rip again.	Posted by TwelveYears#0870 on Dec 19, 2015, 6:08:01 AM Quote this Post
Correct me if im am wrong but i dont think there is any exclusive armour sets? I think the pets are exclusive. Just seen someone upset and complaining they didn't get the "whole" exclusive Armour set? Well they did this before but the theme was fire and you could get pieces of the "fire set" and that is not exclusive. Apologies if i am wrong but please go read what you are gambling on before raving about your gambling hangover. Thing about gambling is you arent guarenteed every meat raffel platter unless you have every ticket. Thats gambling, now stop feeling ripped off and stop trying to manipulate full armour sets, its not gonna happen. Definitions: Path of Exile; A world where you are free from pay to win. Unlimited builds, vast enemy mods and a strong end game. Unrivaled community in real life and rewarding developers. Path of exile is one of the best ARPGS created/ Died 25 times to 1 boss in Path of Exile and would rip again.	Posted by TwelveYears#0870 on Dec 19, 2015, 6:15:09 AM Quote this Post
" TwelveYears wrote: Correct me if im am wrong but i dont think there is any exclusive armour sets? I think the pets are exclusive. Just seen someone upset and complaining they didn't get the "whole" exclusive Armour set? Well they did this before but the theme was fire and you could get pieces of the "fire set" and that is not exclusive. Apologies if i am wrong but please go read what you are gambling on before raving about your gambling hangover. Thing about gambling is you arent guarenteed every meat raffel platter unless you have every ticket. Thats gambling, now stop feeling ripped off and stop trying to manipulate full armour sets, its not gonna happen. Oh, so someone tried to manipulate full armour sets? Where? That's a pretty offensive statement. Those who invested lost the right to criticize? Interesting. Last edited by Schiriki#7637 on Dec 19, 2015, 9:19:23 AM	Posted by Schiriki#7637 on Dec 19, 2015, 7:06:36 AM Quote this Post
got 3 Gloves from the frost armor set -_- Possible to get atleast 1 Chest Armor from the Supprot ? :((	Posted by bunshun#0060 on Dec 19, 2015, 10:06:36 AM Quote this Post
Not worth at all, brought 20 of them and basicly got a shittone of dupes of ice crowns and cold grasp effects, oh and lets not forget all the northen light effects, got a shittone of that too.	Posted by emil9513#2599 on Dec 19, 2015, 1:29:03 PM Quote this Post
I'm curious,did anyone get the full armor set? If so,how many boxes did it take?	Posted by PsOfOs#5592 on Dec 19, 2015, 4:01:26 PM Quote this Post
" Schiriki wrote: " TwelveYears wrote: Correct me if im am wrong but i dont think there is any exclusive armour sets? I think the pets are exclusive. Just seen someone upset and complaining they didn't get the "whole" exclusive Armour set? Well they did this before but the theme was fire and you could get pieces of the "fire set" and that is not exclusive. Apologies if i am wrong but please go read what you are gambling on before raving about your gambling hangover. Thing about gambling is you arent guarenteed every meat raffel platter unless you have every ticket. Thats gambling, now stop feeling ripped off and stop trying to manipulate full armour sets, its not gonna happen. Oh, so someone tried to manipulate full armour sets? Where? That's a pretty offensive statement. Those who invested lost the right to criticize? Interesting. If you buy boxes purely to get the complete armour set then yes, you are. Sorry if you are mad. Plus, people are getting many of the exclusive items which are the lights and decorations. Try reading first. Definitions: Path of Exile; A world where you are free from pay to win. Unlimited builds, vast enemy mods and a strong end game. Unrivaled community in real life and rewarding developers. Path of exile is one of the best ARPGS created/ Died 25 times to 1 boss in Path of Exile and would rip again.	Posted by TwelveYears#0870 on Dec 19, 2015, 6:16:48 PM Quote this Post
" DemonBloodbath wrote: After buying about 50 packs just getting thrice the Gloves and x-times the same stuff?? What the heck?...Extremely lousy odds to get a full set if you ask me...Questionable policy, just like the last time with this gamble thing. Won't buy another gamble pack ever, until GGG guarantees, that the same armour set items won't be given multiple times. Don't want to imagine, how many packs you need to buy to get a full exclusive armour set...Maybe I should ask Warren Buffett to lend me a few bucks. Certainly feel ripped off... Hi Schiriki Well this gentlemen had full sets on his mind as he mentions it and dont tell me he is the only one. Again, reading helps before making silly statements. Definitions: Path of Exile; A world where you are free from pay to win. Unlimited builds, vast enemy mods and a strong end game. Unrivaled community in real life and rewarding developers. Path of exile is one of the best ARPGS created/ Died 25 times to 1 boss in Path of Exile and would rip again.	Posted by TwelveYears#0870 on Dec 19, 2015, 6:25:02 PM Quote this Post
" TwelveYears wrote: " DemonBloodbath wrote: After buying about 50 packs just getting thrice the Gloves and x-times the same stuff?? What the heck?...Extremely lousy odds to get a full set if you ask me...Questionable policy, just like the last time with this gamble thing. Won't buy another gamble pack ever, until GGG guarantees, that the same armour set items won't be given multiple times. Don't want to imagine, how many packs you need to buy to get a full exclusive armour set...Maybe I should ask Warren Buffett to lend me a few bucks. Certainly feel ripped off... Hi Schiriki Well this gentlemen had full sets on his mind as he mentions it and dont tell me he is the only one. Again, reading helps before making silly statements. He is writing about his feelings/impressions and conclusions, nowhere does he ask for free stuff. Just stop offending people for no reason.	Posted by Schiriki#7637 on Dec 19, 2015, 7:59:30 PM Quote this Post
Lots of good, reasonable suggestions posted for the boxes. I'm sure the devs will read through this thread and sort out a better way to do it in the future. I think the biggest problem is how the announcement was worded, as it seems to have confused a lot a people regarding the exclusivity of the items in the box. I can see it being especially difficult for those who have English as a second language, considering a lot of native speakers didn't understand it on first read-thru. Just a tip for the future though, if the box doesn't have anything high-value and exclusive, you probably shouldn't buy more boxes than the total approximate value of the highest value item. Last edited by EricShade#1199 on Dec 20, 2015, 12:20:12 AM	Posted by EricShade#1199 on Dec 20, 2015, 12:19:21 AM Quote this Post