[TERA PC & Console] En Masse is closing, but TERA lives on! We will continue to support TERA PC (NA) and TERA Console until service is transferred. Stay tuned for more information.
[TERA Console] The Grotto of Lost Souls update (v85) is now live! Read the patch notes here: https://bit.ly/TERACon_v85
[TERA PC] The 64-bit update (v97) is now live. Check out all the changes delivered on August 11 here: https://bit.ly/tera64_patchnotes
[TERA PC & CONSOLE] Summerfest Part 2: The Beach Bash is on from August 11 until September 1! Participate in event activities to earn tokens redeemable for costumes, consumables, mounts, and more! Details: https://bit.ly/tera_sf20
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First of all, you may not get a costume at all.
Then, if you get a costume, it's decided between which two groups you get one from (naturally, all the more valuable ones are in the group with the lower chance to get, with the exception of the new one being in the more common group).
Then, if you get a costume from group B, the new costume is one out of 12 items in that group.
But it's all okay because you get a whopping TWENTY strongbox keys!!1!1!!
Also, the one time that mEME did allow a direct purchase of a dyeable outfit with the one from last winter - I can't remember its name - is the one time I bought a costume with EMP. I can argue myself at the effectiveness of allowing direct purchase on dyeable outfits. But less money for mEME when the game is barely alive, so that's not happening.
Just for like... maximum precision here: you're guaranteed to get an item from either Group A or B. If it's not a costume, it'll be the Elite voucher, the Footsteps, or the Pet Pack.
Not trying to defend it because I personally don't think it's worth it either. But just to be perfectly precise on what it is. The one (1) good thing I can say about this lootbox is that -- at least -- all the items are tradeable. It's golden gift boxes without the gifting (or the tier prizes), more or less.
To me, someone who has a job and doesn't play many other games and just sits around on a stack of disposable income all year, it makes no sense to make your customers struggle to buy something. I don't care how much money I have left at the end of the month; I'm never spending money on a lootbox. Your analytics might show that the current setup of withholding costumes or locking them to lootboxes makes you more money, but I hadn't spent a dime on NA in months because the shop is empty and the good stuff is locked behind rng. Same with pretty much everyone in my guild who migrated. But we're spending on EU, because their shop has things in it that we actually want (seriously, you removed 3/4ths of the store. Why? Not even EU did this.) and we're not forced to jump through RNG hoops to obtain it.
"A chance to receive an item from one of the following groups. You have a higher chance to get an item from group "B." (Note that the costume box you get may not be for your character's gender but will be tradeable.)"
Taken from the page in the shop.
So was I interpreting this wrong? It says you have a chance to receive an item, and the way it's phrased makes it sound to me like it's a chance at getting an item in general.
Yeah, it just means which item you receive from the groups is subject to chance. You won't open a box and sometimes only get the keys or anything like that.
Not sure what you're referring to, people aren't quitting because of costumes, if u want to support the game, you do it, if not don't spend your money on it...