Wish crates feedback

[Kira]

Well, I am an F2P VIP 0 player so I definitely know that using money basically mean saving one self from a portion of the grind, but as a F2P I have also learned to grind efficiently so I am saving time and resources that way. (In case wondering I rather spend my money on Switch gams like BOTW 2).

What I am thinking about at least in terms of the fact that PerBlue probably can’t have the Wish Crates under a certain amount, is the fact that if people overall stop buying deals as they overall get better things from the Wish Crate even if it is random, the money they spent on the diamonds are lower than the amount they would have spent on buying a deal for that had less value and costing more.
So there is a balance there.

While of course I agree that PerBlue probably not going to take that much of a loss as players would have happy and likely spending on the Wish Crate as is value overall is better than the deals, so for Player Satisfaction it would probably a good thing and maybe attract some players that have be away for a while or quitted. So there are something to that side as well of it.

For F2Ps like myself I say go for a 10% chance of drop and try to gain Hero Chips so that we have a better chance of 6 star-ing our characters, as well as mods and Red skills.
I haven’t tried to max any Red skills, but with the Wish Crate I might try to max Minnie’s Red skill, but yeah will see on how it goes for me. This was at least my free one:

I hope we so get from free Wish Crates from Contest later, but yeah probably also going to spend my diamonds on Wish Crates during Fortify The Network contest and make most out of my diamond spending.

[Rilliam]

Thanks, it does put it a bit more into perspective and while I fully agree that it would be much better, more useful, and likely see far more sales if it was at a more reasonable cost I also don’t know how much of a cost reduction we would see. I do see how frustrating the crates are but I also see a heck of a lot of potential that could be tapped into if PerBlue modifies them to be sufficiently more rewarding to players. While ideally the cost should be lowered if they aren’t then I was thinking of the strategies PerBlue might use to make it more useful, and therefore more sellable, to the players.

[CodeMore6]

@Kira

For F2Ps like myself I say go for a 10% chance of drop and try to gain Hero Chips so that we have a better chance of 6 star-ing our characters, as well as mods and Red skills.

YES

Also, the Wish Crate is not always “not worth it”. It depends on what you get.

For example, you spend 1K diamonds on one Wish Crate and get the jackpot. That is worth it. People are upset at the cost because of its drops and the chances of chips.

So perhaps increasing chip chances is good, and maybe not ENTIRELY resetting the percentage, perhaps just tone the percent back a little.

[Lord_Mushu_LXXVII]

@Kira

The Wish Crate are in general a Loot Box crate and the most Loot Box like crate we have had so far probably.

We get in Germany, probably from May 1st. a new law, the “lootbox law”. Which says that gambling in games is only permitted from the age of 18. Accordingly, this game would have to be marked as “not suitable for minors”.

Nice funfact?

[Kira]

@Rilliam Happy that my post helped you understand people’s perspective of the Wish Crates more :-).

I can say that I in general don’t want to spend 10 000 on 10x Wish Crates even if PerBlue made them better, and if it were to be worth such a high price either way the content would likely have to be better than what PerBlue is willing to give us.

I could them PerBlue improving the Wish Crate and have it cost 5000 diamonds, but yeah not keen on spending anything more than 5000 diamonds on a crate in general.

Not sure if you saw this post in the comments, but I think this is the general thought on the prices are something like this:

100/1000 being what players mainly want, 300/3000 being what players are fine with spending, 5000 feeling expensive even if some may buy they aren’t doing it out of happiness to say, and of course the last one 1000/10000 would be the “Nope! Way too expensive” price.

While it is true that if PerBlue improve the crate it would likely maybe move the price up in terms of how many diamonds players are willing to spend, but I think 300/3000 is a physiological okey price so like the “Okey enough” likely price. I sure wouldn’t mind 100/1000, but as far as that’s realistic is another thing. I think at least 300/3000 would be a price players wouldn’t be too angry on which is the most important thing. (3000 is the price for a banner pull to try and get 10 characters/medals in Kingdom Hearts Union X, so it matches).

@CodeMore6 I am not going to say the Wish Crate always give you back the amount to feel it was worth it like for the price, but for an F2P they will likely still be helpful in some ways even if not always feeling as much worth it as we would like them to.

I wish it didn’t entirely reset the percentage either, like at least keeping 25% or at the very least 10%, which I think would be fair as we have spent our resources afterall.

@Lord_Mushu_LXXVII Interesting and yeah, I do know Disney Heroes is intended to be for 13 and up, but yeah I guess Disney Heroes might be set as 18 in Germany now.

Something to think about and the future of Loot Box and Microtransactions I suppose, like if companies can have Loot Boxes in kids games, as well as Microtransactions even if maybe allowed even if more regulated than now.

[Dread_Pirate_Doc]

@Kira

I hope we so get from free Wish Crates from Contest later, but yeah probably also going to spend my diamonds on Wish Crates during Fortify The Network contest and make most out of my diamond spending.

But are the pulls worth the diamond spend? I don’t think so…they need to be better to be worth what you get (coupled with the FTN awards).

[Kira]

Much more than 300/3000 diamonds definitely not, for 100/1000 diamonds definitely yes as 1000 I generally earn in 2-3 days.

It is really hard for F2Ps to get a lot of Hero Chips, so picking a 10% character and be the most likely to get Hero Chips for them is really helpful.
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Beside I am already make as such as I can out the badges by combo grinding so I would say I should be fine either way :-).

[Onefjeff]

I think overall the value is very lacking here. You can pay $100 for 360 of a new toons chips plus mods, mod power, red skill chips and other misc items. The wish crate you get a small chance to get any chips at all, for real money paying for these instead of waiting for the hero’s chips to come up for sale is a bad move. I went for kermit on my free pull and hit the jackpot for 300 chips but everything else was lackluster. If the cost stays this high you really need to scale up the chances and rewards. They do not match up at all. I wouldn’t even pay 20 bucks for a 10x pull of this crate. If these were 3k diamonds per 10x pull I’d likely splurge once in a while. But since it’s such a low chance for any real payoff I don’t see the appeal. The fact is these were supposed to be anew and improved crate for late game players who were disenchanted with the diamond crates, but instead we got a huge gimmicky gatcha game.

[Card_Queen]

True like 1 per day wouldn’t hurt.