OK so I guess you'll see a lot of negativity given that people are in a bad rage feedback loop so even with good reasons to dislike it they reached rage levels that are totally disconnected from the actual issue. Also the fact that people who are unhappy are more likely to comment. I'd like to add some positivity, even though I'm not 100% OK with every aspect of the adoption system. I'm happy to have this, with so many new skins that are all nice while being somewhat close to base and an upgrade on it, which can justify having them in a common system with some rng to a certain point. I really like all those skins, also the fact that we have a big series of skins that are akin to the base ones (which I like a lot). I'm OK with the price of 400 each (or 320 for bundle!) and even with the rng as it's 100% win without duplicates. And as someone who like to have different skins for everything on my (numerous) characters, this is a great occasion to get a lot of skins for my alts.Imho it looks like the system was designed so people can buy kinda-cheap tickets and be rewarded with a guaranteed nice surprise skin. The design also works for people like me who wanted and will have a use for a lot of skins (bought the full bundle on 2 accounts!). Buuuut, a lot of people look at the preview, see ONE specific skin they want and ... that's where the system collapses, because it means full RNG (1/30) for them. So again, I do like all those skins, I do like the ability to buy the bundle, I do like the "surprise nice skin for cheap price" idea ... But there are a few things that are not that cool, some of those making it very bad for a big portion of the playerbase ... in a way that should have been forecasted (it was not this hard) to avoid a bad salt fest that may hurt the game. Here is a list of things that could have made it a lot better (some of them are still possible :) ) : There should have been more directly available skins before introducing this, or at least at the same time (a "legendary" one at 2k gem doesn't count). This is because a lot of players were impatiently waiting for nice mount skins ... so they are disappointed when the first "serious" (non-Halloween) ones come in such a number and are behind a system that doesn't fit their needs. This disappointment lead to salt.The bundle price is a bit too high. Of course it has a good price per skin but buying so many at once could be worth a discount of more than the usual 20%. More importantly, the maximum purchase of gems is 8k - which also coincides with an irl psychological limit ($100€). IHMO gemstore bundles, even huge ones like this, should have 8k as their maximum price tag. It doesn't feel right to have to buy gems twice for a single purchase, or to break that 8k/$100€ threshold.The system could let you choose which type of mount you want to unlock. This way, people who want a specific skin have a worst case scenario of 1/6. And people who want 1 nice skin per mount can just spend 2k gems and be guaranteed to have one unlock per mount even if which ones is still RNG (ppl who were rdy to spend 2k gems this way do exist, I've read quite a few comments from them!)
OK so I guess you'll see a lot of negativity given that people are in a bad rage feedback loop so even with good reasons to dislike it they reached rage levels that are totally disconnected from the actual issue. Also the fact that people who are unhappy are more likely to comment. I'd like to add some positivity, even though I'm not 100% OK with every aspect of the adoption system. I'm happy to have this, with so many new skins that are all nice while being somewhat close to base and an upgrade on it, which can justify having them in a common system with some rng to a certain point. I really like all those skins, also the fact that we have a big series of skins that are akin to the base ones (which I like a lot). I'm OK with the price of 400 each (or 320 for bundle!) and even with the rng as it's 100% win without duplicates. And as someone who like to have different skins for everything on my (numerous) characters, this is a great occasion to get a lot of skins for my alts.Imho it looks like the system was designed so people can buy kinda-cheap tickets and be rewarded with a guaranteed nice surprise skin. The design also works for people like me who wanted and will have a use for a lot of skins (bought the full bundle on 2 accounts!). Buuuut, a lot of people look at the preview, see ONE specific skin they want and ... that's where the system collapses, because it means full RNG (1/30) for them. So again, I do like all those skins, I do like the ability to buy the bundle, I do like the "surprise nice skin for cheap price" idea ... But there are a few things that are not that cool, some of those making it very bad for a big portion of the playerbase ... in a way that should have been forecasted (it was not this hard) to avoid a bad salt fest that may hurt the game. Here is a list of things that could have made it a lot better (some of them are still possible :) ) : There should have been more directly available skins before introducing this, or at least at the same time (a "legendary" one at 2k gem doesn't count). This is because a lot of players were impatiently waiting for nice mount skins ... so they are disappointed when the first "serious" (non-Halloween) ones come in such a number and are behind a system that doesn't fit their needs. This disappointment lead to salt.The bundle price is a bit too high. Of course it has a good price per skin but buying so many at once could be worth a discount of more than the usual 20%. More importantly, the maximum purchase of gems is 8k - which also coincides with an irl psychological limit ($100€). IHMO gemstore bundles, even huge ones like this, should have 8k as their maximum price tag. It doesn't feel right to have to buy gems twice for a single purchase, or to break that 8k/$100€ threshold.The system could let you choose which type of mount you want to unlock. This way, people who want a specific skin have a worst case scenario of 1/6. And people who want 1 nice skin per mount can just spend 2k gems and be guaranteed to have one unlock per mount even if which ones is still RNG (ppl who were rdy to spend 2k gems this way do exist, I've read quite a few comments from them!)