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Spent 500$ and didn't get a single box, how come EME?

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  • Why not just buy stuff you can sell for gold and then get what you want? Did you just want to gamble away $500? Just bet on sports instead.
  • YamazukiYamazuki ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2017
    Margarethe wrote: »
    ElinUsagi wrote: »
    PrincessV wrote: »
    ElinUsagi wrote: »
    PrincessV wrote: »
    Here I spent 500$ on starglow boxes that's like what, 400 boxes? didn't get one. GJ EME as usual lmfao

    yet people whining about maint w/o notice in advance

    Do you complain if you buy $500 on lotery tickets and dont get the major prize?

    Since obviously here we have a lil [filtered] so:
    1. The general lottery is governed by LAW. You think they will sell lottery tickets to kids?
    2. Lottery chances are clearly stated, how the winner is chosen and there's almost always a lawful witness to the process.

    The purpose of buying boxes in tera is that I want an outfit. I don't want to win a million dollars. There's a baseline difference between the two. If you don't have any positiveness in you, I kindly ask you to buzz off.

    And what is the positiveness in you?

    You are the only one to blame for what you did, not EME or BHS.

    I myselft have spent more than 3k dollars on lootboxes and get few things but I am not complaining for something you know before hand you could not get.

    When you are going to buy a lootbox it clearly says what is garantued to get and what is a posibility to get. EME is not obligated to give you something garuanted when it already stated is only a posibility and when you already accepted to buy the lootbox with the garantued item.

    You need to focus in the real issue, your naivety and nothing more.

    3k USD on lootboxes?
    I see money indeed has no value for some.

    There's very little purpose in never spending money. If you make more money you'll most likely end up spending more of it somewhere. 3k could also be very little money depending on context too. 3,000 over 4 years is the same as buying part of a new game each month.
  • You could buy a large bag, like a huge duffel bag of condoms, and redecorate the house, but lootboxes instead ...
  • vkobevkobe ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2017
    OMG why play tera casino ? :D
    kubitoid wrote: »
    that money couldve been used on improving north america network instead. alas

    or buy a xbox one x ;)
  • vkobevkobe ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2017
    Margarethe wrote: »
    ElinUsagi wrote: »
    PrincessV wrote: »
    ElinUsagi wrote: »
    PrincessV wrote: »
    Here I spent 500$ on starglow boxes that's like what, 400 boxes? didn't get one. GJ EME as usual lmfao

    yet people whining about maint w/o notice in advance

    Do you complain if you buy $500 on lotery tickets and dont get the major prize?

    Since obviously here we have a lil [filtered] so:
    1. The general lottery is governed by LAW. You think they will sell lottery tickets to kids?
    2. Lottery chances are clearly stated, how the winner is chosen and there's almost always a lawful witness to the process.

    The purpose of buying boxes in tera is that I want an outfit. I don't want to win a million dollars. There's a baseline difference between the two. If you don't have any positiveness in you, I kindly ask you to buzz off.

    And what is the positiveness in you?

    You are the only one to blame for what you did, not EME or BHS.

    I myselft have spent more than 3k dollars on lootboxes and get few things but I am not complaining for something you know before hand you could not get.

    When you are going to buy a lootbox it clearly says what is garantued to get and what is a posibility to get. EME is not obligated to give you something garuanted when it already stated is only a posibility and when you already accepted to buy the lootbox with the garantued item.

    You need to focus in the real issue, your naivety and nothing more.

    3k USD on lootboxes?
    I see money indeed has no value for some.

    ;)


    LilMsQTay wrote: »
    I am sorry you had a bad experience and my heart does go out to you.
    If you were under age and I was your mother, I'd be outraged and would go to one of those politicians and my local news station and tell your story. I'm sure your not the only exploited child out there with an online gambling addiction and no laws to protect you.
    You might also find some group/s out there advocating for online gambling laws?
    This is how change happens, but you also have to take responsibility for yourself and get help and stop gambling if you feel it's a problem for you.

    if you are her mother and if she is under age how she was able to buy emp ?

    is mean she stole your credit card or you let her use credit card :/
  • GG and welcome to tera RNG.
  • JerichowJerichow ✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2017
    I want to say I feel bad, but honestly I don't because people have provided proof that the success rate EME put on these boxes make them a complete scam. This is exactly why I call it the Loot Trap system, and don't support it. I'll buy smartboxes and Elite status because I refuse to hand money to a company like EME or EA for them to say, "Here's a *CHANCE* to get what you want."

    [email protected]#K. THAT.

    You put money into a slot machine and lost, just like so many others. The only difference is you decided to throw away $500 for pixels while others stopped much sooner. People keep posting these threads proving just how unfairly low the 'success' chance of these boxes are, I don't get why people think that their chances are going to be any better.

    So yeah, GG EME, but also GG to you too for buying into it and not knowing when to stop. This is exactly why EA is under so much scrutiny and why a lot of people hope regulations get put on lootboxes sooner than later, because they're gambling, plain and simple.
  • Dont worry next year we'll probably have regulations for lootboxes and you wont get shafted by lootboxes. Except tera probably wont survive if loot boxes get regulated.
  • you want people to be more positive or buzz off...what you meant is you want people agreeing with you or else. you want them to take up arms and fight the power. then you complain about us minors that buy lootboxes hoping that will some how get the " think about the children " crowd behind you....my parents know exactly what I get from the shop because they...they buy it for me. I don't use their credit card. blame the parents if the kids use their credit cards without their permission. the kids should know better and so should the parents. and then the one that made me laugh was that you are thinking about suing eme cause of it. the judge will probably laugh you out of the court room for spending 500 usd on a game that is free to play. also the lootboxes don't give an advantage, the prize is cosmetic. and it clearly states that you have a chance...a chance at winning, but you still get something for it if you don't get the main prize ,so its not like you get nothing. if you open them and didn't get anything, then you might get a little pity, but you just spent 500 dollars on a life lesson. if you learn from it, then good. if you didn't, then spend another 500 at a time until you learn.
    some of us minors learn these lessons a lot cheaper than some adults lol.
  • edited December 2017
    Xristosx wrote: »
    Dont worry next year we'll probably have regulations for lootboxes and you wont get shafted by lootboxes. Except tera probably wont survive if loot boxes get regulated.

    They'll be fine because, if it follows what happened in China, Japan, and South Korea, they'll just have to post the odds, maybe have a failure cap, and have spending caps for minors. None of these things are going to break the system, and haven't broken anything in any of those countries ("gacha games" are still wildly successful there). This is partly why I've been pushing for these changes for so long; they help perception a lot without really hurting profits in the end.


    As a case in point...
    Jerichow wrote: »
    People keep posting these threads proving just how unfairly low the 'success' chance of these boxes are, I don't get why people think that their chances are going to be any better.

    It's fair to say that lucky people aren't making threads bragging about their good luck. This is the entire problem with not having a failure cap -- even if the odds are 2%, 3% or whatever it is, you'll always have people with horror stories that make everyone else believe the odds are against them. To me, that alone would be a reason to fix this.
  • I do agree on the loot boxes needing a safety net/failure cap.
    It might even get more people to purchase the boxes, because they know they can get the item guaranteed after a certain amount.
    Loot boxes as they are right now... not a fan, I've also spent some cash left and right on loot boxes (though not anywhere near $500, at least not in 1 go) and most of the time I was left feeling robbed and disappointed.

    I usually now just sell EMP and purchase the item directly, so I'm glad that work-around exists.
  • ChidoChido ✭✭✭
    PrincessV wrote: »
    like okay, how about being just a tad more constructive guys? Implement a fail-safe measure where if you buy 100 boxes or 200 idc you're guaranteed to have one? This is not the first time i'm intrigued to see the probability distributions and RNG behind those boxes, this is gambling and I'm this close to suing them.

    Valve has proven that you cannot sue based on this reasoning.
    First, this is not gambling. You are spending real money to obtain a virtual item with no real money value attached to it.
    When you gamble you either win or lose, with lootboxes and crates you always get something.

    You spent 500? 12,000 x 5 = 60,000EMP x 30(emp rate to gold) = 1,8m gold. You thought you could get more than 9 jackpots, so got greedy and got burned.
  • PrincessV wrote: »
    like okay, how about being just a tad more constructive guys? Implement a fail-safe measure where if you buy 100 boxes or 200 idc you're guaranteed to have one? This is not the first time i'm intrigued to see the probability distributions and RNG behind those boxes, this is gambling and I'm this close to suing them.

    lol, what the hell are you going to sue them for? your own damn gambling addiction?
  • Elinu1Elinu1 Canada ✭✭✭✭
    You have to be out of your mind to even consider spending $500 on loot boxes. What did you think was going to happen?

  • There, support his - Chris Lee's work and make EME (and other publishers) show percentage of winning chances on those boxes. That will make things bit more clear on loot boxes and make people think twice before spend money on it.
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