Xehanort.7034

The game is free, yes. But you need PoF to use the skins; ergo, you paid the full price of the expansion to use mounts. And yes, it does affect your gameplay. It's content that's locked behind a completely random system. You have no other way to get these skins except for gambling. If you're really unlucky and don't, you have to spend a full 9.6k gems. That's over 100$ for a single skin, or over 3.6k gold. And it wasn't mount skins that set the community "on fire". It was anet using predatory practices that pray on the psychologically weak that so many other piles of human filth (activision, EA, WB just to name a few) use to abuse people who are weak to the thrill of gambling. People want the skins. People want to spend money on the skins. But people DON'T want to spend money on a 1/31st chance to get the skin they want. They want to pay for the content they want; they DON'T want to leave it up to chance for the content they want, and either be SOL or have to pay more.

Absolutely disgusting. I'm disgusted by the fact that you guys have decided to adopt the predatory lootbox system that so many other filth of the earth developers and publishers pushed into places that it didn't belong. (See: shadow of war, forza 7) It's also pretty obvious that you've been sitting on these skins for a while now, and yet didn't release any of them, but rather waited and pushed them all out into this RNG lootbox bollocks. I, and I know countless other people would have GLADLY thrown money at their screen to buy some of these skins directly. I even would have GLADLY paid 1k gems for the shiba inu jackal skin, because it's a really nice skin that's not an eyesore. I even got my card out when the patch hit, because I saw quite a few skins i wanted. But now, I'm not spending a single dime in the gem store until you guys do something to mitigate this train wreck. There are multiple things you guys could do to help with this situation: add a new RNG adoption thing for each specific mount, at an increased price. 600-700 gems for a random jackal or raptor mount sounds fair.add the skins to the gem shop at varying prices (600 for a simple reskin, 1.4k gems for anything like the celestial/fire skins) while keeping the 400 gem RNG ticket available for those who feel luckygive a guaranteed skin of the user's choice after opening a set amount of boxes. One per 5-6 opened sounds good.