How can you not resist celestial MECH'TENNAS?

LOL, and we were just talking about how terrible of a tactic the UV-garbage is too! Yet here they are again rocking the 80% odds of variant tickets. And then Eurydice wonders why I would possibly say that we aren't heard.. or at least not cared about. But the best part is in the announcement itself-

"Now, don't go into orbit, but in each of these boxes, you may also find variant tickets, and you will definitely find at least one Equinox Confetti!"

We acknowledge that quite a few people have in the past complained about it when we do this, but we don't care and have put variant tickets inside of the box as the main get anyway. But that's OK! We're giving you guys confetti! That's what you guys care about? Right? Right? Right.

Was this me going into orbit? Am I not supposed to do that?

@Spiralka-Chan

"How do we properly throw a celebration of the Equinox? We planet."

planet = plan it.

It is a pun, because the equinox itself involves planetary positions.

Nothing like a good pun to rub the salt in the wounds...
Those odds are garbage. Good to see they still don't listen to user complaints.

You are sitting in the middle of a content update. You want a content update during a content update?
Think about it: OOO never does double content updates. That would be a huge waste of resources that a small game dev doesn't have. They alternate content updates with costume updates just to keep the game changing while they develop more stuff.

Torto is happening now. They just dropped Equinox. We're almost in April: we'll probably have one costume update before... Anniversary!
All the cake you can want!

In the meantime if you want something to do other than FSC go participate in the extinction of yet another testudine species--it's a very "Earth Day-esque" way to spend a planetary event. :)

--Cheshireccat

Oh right! Tortodrones! The devs CAN'T fill the boxes with costumes instead of variant tickets when there are tortodrones!

Worst case scenario is you'll get one confetti and a 1-variant ticket. You're paying $5 for that box. Would you pay $5 for 20K crowns and a storm caller?

Worst case scenario for reskinned promos (such as verdant) is that you get a themed accessory you really don't want or like (like a headband), however you still got a themed item from that box. As of right now, one of the items we're being given in mass (almost half of the boxes should contain these!) is worth 20k in-game currency and that number is static. At our current energy ratios that's like what... 250 energy? That leaves the confetti being about 450 energy at the very least (1350/3).
Now if we multiplied those numbers by 10 or so (you get 10, 20 ,or 30 confetti), then that's something I can get behind. Granted you would be buying the box for confetti at that point, which is questionable, but 10 confetti that looks really cool might be worth 1350 energy. 1 confetti is not.

Bottom line is, as a consumer, I'd rather pay my money for something I will instantly get back. I can admire costumes and accessories. I cannot admire confetti that lasts for a few seconds. I also cannot admire 1/2 of my money essentially being money I can make in a few hours of non-grind playtime.

Fehzor and I's opinions have reach near full on cynicism and sarcastiball levels of doom for OOO.

If you continue to buy boxes with 80% poop odds, then you're only reinforcing them to continue to make boxes this way.
STOP BUYING BOXES. DON'T BE MAD WHEN YOU DON'T GET WHAT YOU WANT.
This GIF is appropriate: http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/242/634/848.gif

oh yes and what I originally logged in to say:

MORE CAT TAILS!!! :D

Makes me wonder that if you throw a Celestial Bolted Vee like a boomerang... will it produce the same, stunning visual effect that the Celestial Saber does when swung?

* is happy with UV tickets and out-of-this-world accessories. *

I would definitely agree that that would make it a bit nicer- if you were receiving it with some sort of other purchase as opposed to just buying garbage. Or they could just.. you know. Not put the UV tickets in the box with the cool celestial stuff, so that people can just purchase the celestial stuff more directly. I'd say that's one of my favorite parts of buying just about anything actually- the part where I give them the money and receive the good or service that I want with 100% certainty as opposed to 20% certainty.

And the directly upgraded stun-leviathan blade is still at like 1%. I haven't even got to that yet.. it's just so disgusting. We really should try to boycott prize boxes.

I'm running 3 months straight of dodging promos and boxes. I dare say I've gone full Free 2 Play once again.

But it's only going to be noticeable if we get EVERYONE to do it over the course of months of new promo boxes with really bad odds.
Because some people are going to buy boxes anyways and try to control the market monopoly. Others are avid collectors and open hundreds if not thousands of dollars on boxes (I've seen these people in game, they are crazy whales).

It's up to the rest of us to put a foot down on gambling.

(not the best case but it's an idea)
Imagine a scenario where boxes actually meant picking what you wanted: you get a nice little drop down menu of every item and you pick 1.
Everybody gets what they want. YOU WANT THE RARE NEW WEAPON/SHIELD? IT'S YOURS MY FRIEND, JUST AS LONG AS YOU BUY THESE 10 DOLLAR BOXES. Rare items become common and GET THIS: people actually see crowds of people playing with mixmasters and celestial sabers like the game was meant to be played. Recolored plate helms and sallets littering the auction house become a thing of the past. Bolted Vees? Fuggetaboutit.

I don't see why they don't just charge people more for giving them exactly what they want.
I mean just think of the SUPPLY DEPOT flash sales; do the same thing except with promo items. You buy the energy and get exactly what you want.

It's just crazy to think people buy into gambling boxes because "that's the way it's always been to make the most money out of cows and whales". This game has more people than that, and they need to start acknowledging that we are here and want their content.

@Paintool
The reason why it's random is because it exploits human psychology. More specifically, it's called Operant Conditioning or a Skinner Box.

There's no new Equinox Confetti, you only get Spring Confetti, I don't know if this is a glitch, or they used the wrong wording in the announcement, but I was looking forward to buying just one of the new confetti items, and this is what they do, reusing an old one, great.

There's no new Equinox Confetti, you only get Spring Confetti
three rings pls.
actually, BRB, selling spring confetti for 108k crowns.

But seriously, I'm all for this box if the box isn't the main attraction. Things like verdant, ancient, or electric boxes had the contents as the main attraction. For equinox boxes, most of the contents are a crown purchase.
As a buyer of promos that interest me, this promo is really offsetting because of its odds plus the fact that it's a stand-alone box. UV tickets aren't bonuses if you paid for them, however if you paid for energy then it's a net gain and you feel good buying the promos.

Bottom line, as a casual box buyer, this box is not casual enough. However an energy box would actually get some money out of me because of the good practice.
So um, hopefully we get a change for the solstice box in 4 months or so.

Equinox Confetti is spring or fall depending on the season
Oooh. Would've been nice to hear that in the initial announcement. Looks like you all fixed it though, except for on the wiki page.
That being said now that really brings the price per box down a lot more. Sad...

On a side note, some sort of confetti that makes planets and stars swirl around would be a nice addition to the next equinox box. Something like that planetary aura we have plus a super stun gun explosion. I'd be up for paying $5 for 10 or so of those with a chance of more plus a moderate chance at a costume or accessory that's all spacey.

The box itself is pretty much a jarring pile of sadness, however if I can see some pretty planets show up and do cool things it'll make the sadness only a pile of sadness and not as jarring. Besides, confetti that lasts forever is pretty much an aura and we have one of those in this box already.

If you want me to be completely serious if we got 25 confetti that made planets circle our knights like a barrier plus a mini big bang or dead star explosion to start/end it off, I would be really happy spending $5 on that confetti plus the other rewards that come with it.

Granted I would very much prefer the current box as an energy bonus because that makes more sense anyways.

I'd prefer something like a confetti gun that can be used as much as we like.
Hmm, maybe a way to combine them to get ever more impressive confetti effects, so you wouldn't have a dozen of the things serving no purpose if you bought a bunch of boxes, unless you wanted to sell em on the AH.

Confetti aside, I think that the accessories should be completely guaranteed, all this variant ticket spam is a sick joke.
It's bad enough that you don't know what you'll get, probably some piece worth a few thousand crowns...
If anything, the variant ticket should be thrown in as a thank you, not as a primary reward, ugh.

Well the new guns are kinda worth checking out I guess, if you haven't already.

*le sigh*

Why didn't you threw away those UV tickets and put the "less rare" items instead? It just boggles my mind how stupid it is to have 80% of opening a promotional box AND NOT GETTING A PROMOTIONAL ITEMS

That's.... well... it's scamming in my book

Edit: Well the new guns are kinda worth checking out I guess, if you haven't already.

The guns took way too long to get in the game to have any sort of impact if you ask me. We had more hype than anything, because OOO hyped us for it 1 year earlier, then you realize it's just shadow gun update (grave, permafroster, GR, phantamos...)

The confetti would be worth as much as Ecto Drops if each box came with 100. You'd still lose most of your money because the market would adjust to the supply. Expecting players to price confetti over 500 at that point is a huge stretch.

I find it especially amusing that a REAL party popper that requires REAL physical materials and manufacturing actually costs LESS than the confetti on this game, really, they cost like, what, 40 cents a piece? a dollar for the larger ones?

What I mean is, that to buy a single prize box, it costs FIVE dollars (equivalent to 1600 energy), and you only get 2 items:
1 single variant ticket (Which is worth about 250 energy, or $0.80)
1-3 spring confetti (Which is worth whatever people are buying it for at the moment, like 120 energy, or $0.35?)

Average player isn't going to get the nice items, I saw someone chug through about a hundred dollars worth and only got a couple 2x and 3x variant tickets, and like, a bolted V which went for action for 12k or so. Absolutely pathetic.

Luckily none of this stuff is really important gameplay wise, but I feel kinda bad for the people who bought these and just got trash.
Can't believe my friends fell into this trap, they did it while I was at work, and I come home and I'm like... You wasted 10 dollars on that?!
Seriously, we could have bought an entire game, or some nice unlocks for some of the other games we play. Coulda used that same money to get a bunch of garage slots on robocraft, or all the cool lookin masks they're selling.

At first I thought those were just reskins of existing weapons/shields...
I haven't found a counterpart to that shield, and indeed that saber is a straight upgrade to the leviathan blade, no loss of damage from the looks of it. I'm unsure if they're likely to reverse it or fix it either, as they probably don't want to piss off the ones who buy this stuff in large volume, which would be the only ones having a chance of acquiring one of these.

I really hate it when the game adds new gear but severely limits their accessibility, it feels like a huge waste of developer resources.