armaina.1496

Remove RNG entirely. Allow us to pick exactly which skin(s) to purchase with our Gems. Problem solved, userbased calmed down and Anet will most likely see an influx of money from people who want the skins, and are fine with paying for premium content, but refuse to buy into this gambling nonsense. You know there's been RNG in the game since the minipet boxes and dye kits, (which might I remind you have rarity tiers and can give duplicates) the only reason people aren't complaining about those, is because you can sell off the ones you don't want or already have. Being able to re-sell what you don't want is a reasonable solution for RNG. Not that I wouldn't turn down just flat sales with no random chance boxes, I'm just providing the different paths that can be taken to provide solutions to the player base that aren't exploitative.

In an attempt to give a solution instead of just complaining, I feel like the issue with the skins would be resolved if you simply made the random skin purchases trade-able. This would allow users to re-sell skins they do not want as well as other users to individually purchase the single skin they're looking for if that's all they wanted in the first place. Heck it would even allow people to gift skins to their friends. All of your weapon skins that use Black Lion tickets, are trade-able, I don't understand why you'd lock a random skin box to be non-tradeable while ALSO making it impossible to outright purchase just the single skin you want. Make the pack of 30 account bound, but any of the random ones, allow the users to sell them. That way, people that are fine with just using the randoms they get, can keep them, or can re-sell them. To sum it up, here are potential solutions: Keep the random chance only acquisition, but make them trade-able, possibly changing them to provide duplicatesSell account-bound skins individually - Keep the randoms account-bound with no duplicatesSell skins in account-bound 5 packs - Change the randoms to be trade-able, possibly changing them to provide duplicates If someone at your company is upset with the idea that they might loose money due to the options I'm suggesting, well you kinda shot yourself in the foot by making the only way to get the skins via 7 day locked multipack or random lootbox instead of the normal way you've been doing it for the past several years, you know, just flat selling skins.