There used to be prize boxes from buying energy, and prize boxes in the supply depot from spending energy. Now, there are prize boxes from buying the boxes themselves.
Why not all three ways at once?
Discussion about promos: The ways prize boxes are bought.
Sat, 01/17/2015 - 09:24
Sat, 01/17/2015 - 11:13
#2
Speaking of lockboxes, I
Speaking of lockboxes, I heard that iron lockboxes have gone up in value recently. is this true?
Sat, 01/17/2015 - 12:07
#3
Void
Well they were selling for like 3-5k yesterday... Dunno how much they were before.
Sat, 01/17/2015 - 12:15
#4
way back when they were
way back when they were worthless and common.
I must have some stashed away somewhere...
Sat, 01/17/2015 - 12:46
#5
I've thought about this as well.
There's are a few ways to look at it. Players who bought into promos in the past who were looking into the boxes were angry that they got bad items. They could buy more boxes with the energy, but overall it was bad for people wanting the promo items, but great for the energy market.
As someone who bought into promos, I was very happy when they switched over to buying boxes. I was interested in the contents of the boxes, not the energy.
A good way to go about this would be to make each promo have a few different "types" of boxes. This could open up promos to be more fun and make people more likely to get what they want in their boxes. You know how some boxes have a 1% chance to get a rare item, but there are 3 items in that area? Make 3 different boxes with 3 different chances. Taking equinox for example, we could have galactic set in one box, celestial in another one, and create a third one for a third area. If you want celestial, buy from the boxes directly. If you want galactic, buy from the depot. If you want the new set, buy energy alongside it. What does this do? Makes each player happy and gives certain buy options for each. A certain accessory is in the supply depot one? I'll get some energy and buy that!
This also gives the art team a bit more incentive to work on the promos while the developers work on other updates. Returning boxes won't be as stale.
Heck, for promos you could make more guild hall furniture or reskin some of the current ones. For example, this last winterfest we had the supply depot with decorative boxes and pay-boxes for polar. We even had a grind event for frosty! Add in the energy-purchase and make some frosty reskinned furniture.
All these options makes the economy more active. We have energy coming and going. We have cosmetics everywhere, and it's not a .03% chance you'll get that super rare item that you actually want.
Using the same box with three buy methods might get stale. With three different (but similar) boxes we get more variety and more choice. Have some items cross over between boxes and you will have the price of those accessories me the mean of all of them.
I would agree. Giving the consumer a choice when it comes to buying boxes and energy would be nice.