The Winter Mystery Box - Including New and Exclusive Microtransactions!

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Schiriki wrote:

Basically those who are willing to pay and have been willing to pay in the past, therefore most likely already have most if not all the existing MTX they want, have to wait until next year for awesome new stuff if they don't want tons of stuff they don't need and with the "right" rng even poor outcomes on desired stuff.

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vio wrote:

there is a reason many of the hardcore supporters (according to their posts) sit on thousands of points, i guess they wait for mtx which arent devalued by "sales" so easily.

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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...

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GoatEatingToilet wrote:

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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!

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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.