103403-boom-boxes-not-what-they-advertised

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"I didn't get the mount, therefore they lied."
 
What.	
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			So to date, i have opened 57, i have 38 left. I have gotten all but the chest to the raidin costume. about 12 dyes, about 5 decore items, 5 gems, about 3 flasks, and a bunch or runes and low end crap. i have yet to see any of the stuff they showed in the video they put out about boom boxes. Now i know its random but that was never said from what i have seen, it just says this is what you will find, now i have 38 more does that mean the mounts will be there? this needs to be addressed by a dev, dont say you will find and we don't get. Thats called 'false advertisement'	
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This is the post that first talked about boomboxes:https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/27780-whats-in-the-mystery-box-earn-free-items-for-launch/
 
In case you missed it, heres the relevant part:
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These boxes contain a random assortment of possible goodies, including XP buffs, unique runes, weapons, housing items, unique costumes, mounts, and more!
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			 They didn't say you would get a mount they said there is a chance to get a mount...Boomboxes seemed to be working as intended.. srry you didnt get what ya wanted.. but hey.. neither did I..take a number,join the crowd, crack open a cola and put a smile on your face.	
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			WTS Minor Flask of Experience pst.	
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			See I get the random and thats fine, but my point is the video did not say that and thats the first and to most only thing they seen on the boom-boxes. You dont say 'you will find' when its random, its like on swtor and buying packs, we all know its random. I still have 38 packs to open and maybe i will get lucky. I have a few people in the guild that didnt get as much as i did and a couple of them got mounts. we will see	
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			On the bright side, if it's the mounts you're wanting, you can trade them. So if you have a very nice guildie or are  willing to pay a hefty price for them, you might be able to get one anyway. They can't be sold on the auction house, though. My boyfriend traded me the Luminous Equivar because he's amazing. <3	
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See I get the random and thats fine, but my point is the video did not say that and thats the first and to most only thing they seen on the boom-boxes. You dont say 'you will find' when its random, its like on swtor and buying packs, we all know its random. I still have 38 packs to open and maybe i will get lucky. I have a few people in the guild that didnt get as much as i did and a couple of them got mounts. we will see
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			Boy, people sure do love throwing around the phrase "false advertisement", don't they? Rotner, for just a second, stop with your outraged consumer act and realize that you're getting these things for free. Try buying a lotto ticket at a convenience store and throwing a fit to the clerk when you don't win and see how far that gets you. Hell, even that would be better than what you're doing here simply because at least you have to pay to play the lotto. Boomboxes are FREE! Complaining about gifts is like the epitome of cliche gamer entitlement.	
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			I'm so upset about all this free stuff I got that other people can't get, that I'm going to go post on the forums about it.	
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			I'm in the same boat, and let me play a sad song for you on the world's smallest violin.	
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are you really crying...about something random...being.....random?... Get outta here with that "cupcake".
 
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I'm in the same boat, and 
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See I get the random and thats fine, but my point is the video did not say that and thats the first and to most only thing they seen on the boom-boxes. You dont say 'you will find' when its random, its like on swtor and buying packs, we all know its random. I still have 38 packs to open and maybe i will get lucky. I have a few people in the guild that didnt get as much as i did and a couple of them got mounts. we will see
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You mean something might actually be rare?  As in, not a lot of people have it, not just hard to get?  I'm failing to see how this makes the mount less awesome for those that have it.  Even if it's a 1% drop (which is entirely reasonable for a super rare item, and is probably actually lower) you aren't even close to guaranteed to get one with that many boxes.
 
Honestly you're just upset you haven't gotten one.  Which is alright...when you don't go making threads about false advertising over it.	
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And for you Aethrysa....that is one jacked up avatar!
 
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			Complaining about something you got for free? If this was any other (F2P) game those would cost you $2.50/per and you would be a LOT more upset with it, then.	
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Now, now i've seen it all.
 
Here we have someone whining about free boxes not giving him a mount ..... a rare mount at that ..... a rare mount with a very small chance of appearing.	
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WTS Minor Flask of Experience pst.
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Boom boxes are pretty much garbage.
 
The funny thing is that they use them as incentive items to get folks to do work on the test realm and such. Well, they need to clean out the 95% crap drops like the potions, runes, 1 time port to main city, garbage decor, ect. Ive opened and been utterly dispointed in so many that i would never go out of my way to acquire any more of them. The odds have shown me it just isnt worth opening them unless they are literally given to me.	
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			On my second to last boombox i got the "Savage Warpig", and i still think the boomboxes are pretty much worthless. I got about half of the raidin set, and about 20 dyes, 15 of them i already had. They advertised good items, and the best we got is a mount, (pretty good, nonetheless).	
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Keep going OP, don't let those people with reason fool you!
 
You are on the right track, and only posting more and more, raging on different pages will make your injustice right!
 
Now if you'll excuse me, I'll go lock that lottery place down for the 10+ million they advertised me.	
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			I really hope the devs drop all of the bug fixing/class balancing/content creation they need to do so that they can address this pressing issue. God forbid you don't get your free rare mount.	
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Complaining about something you got for free? If this was any other (F2P) game those would cost you $2.50/per and you would be a LOT more upset with it, then.
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I wouldn't mind the mount dropping from these boxes if it didn't have maxed out speed but because it has, the rarity of it becomes a much bigger slap to the face as it's no longer a trivial or vanity reward. Those who are lucky enough to have one drop for them or exploited the game early on to have the money to buy it off of someone else will have saved 80 platinum and 35 gold. In fact, the average player won't even be able to afford the expert riding skill for a long while.
 
To be honest, the whole boombox things feels exactly like the scamboxes F2P games have.	
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RNG is________
 
>Pickle
 
>California
 
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>"Its my life" Bon Jovi	
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			I opened all my boomboxes and most of the time I got runecrap, got 2 dyes, 2 times Bloodfire Red, I got 3 pieces of the Raidin' costume, one of them I already had and I recieved an experience vial on level 50. I opened up 30+ boomboxes and I got 5 unique things, 2 of those things I had from previous boombox. Every day I opened my boombox hoping on something cool, like I though I would get from the trailer, but 9/10 it were runes, runes and runes. I understand the random about it but they are indeed dissapointing. Atleast they were free for everyone who did the bèta and so. They just felt like something to attract people with.	
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Quite a few of us only found garbage in ours.
 
A small army of 15 minute potions that I never used, some decor I may or may not have used (it was that memorable) and some nasty coloured dye and that was it from beta boombox collection.
 
Then they gave me some more from the PTR .... those also contained stuff I didn't need.
 
I get that they are free but if someone posted empty crisp packets through my letterbox I wouldn't want those either. Please, for the love of kittens, don't give me any more damn boombox things send them to the homeless or something.	
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I opened all my boomboxes and most of the time I got runecrap, got 2 dyes, 2 times Bloodfire Red, I got 3 pieces of the Raidin' costume, one of them I already had and I recieved an experience vial on level 50. I opened up 30+ boomboxes and I got 5 unique things, 2 of those things I had from previous boombox. Every day I opened my boombox hoping on something cool, like I though I would get from the trailer, but 9/10 it were runes, runes and runes. I understand the random about it but they are indeed dissapointing. Atleast they were free for everyone who did the bèta and so. They just felt like something to attract people with.
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I had I think 70+ boxes and oh ya lots of junk...but never did I think I was promised all the greatest stuff! Do I want all the greatest stuff oh hellz ya. Do I feel like they lied to me and I should make a thread about not getting it?........no.
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So to date, i have opened 57, i have 38 left. I have gotten all but the chest to the raidin costume. about 12 dyes, about 5 decore items, 5 gems, about 3 flasks, and a bunch or runes and low end crap. i have yet to see any of the stuff they showed in the video they put out about boom boxes. Now i know its random but that was never said from what i have seen, it just says this is what you will find, now i have 38 more does that mean the mounts will be there? this needs to be addressed by a dev, dont say you will find and we don't get. Thats called 'false advertisement'
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			Are you dissatisfied with your free stuff? Your life is very difficult, isn't it :(	
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Oh I don't think I was lied to and promised loads of great stuff.
 
To be honest, I didn't really follow Wildstar news or know about the boombox thing during beta. I only applied for the beta because I apply for all new MMO betas .... i'm nosey like that, I like to see what they are doing.
 
I only found out I had all these boxes when I logged in.
 
I'm not angry or annoyed I didn't get nice things i'd just rather not have the crap so I don't really want any more boxes.
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OP is complaining of the use of the term "you will get" as opposed to the more appropriate "you may get"
 
Personally I have not looked for their wording because I don't care. I understand the box rewards to be randomized amongst a jillion items, and to get anything really nice out of one - I still want a Supernova White Dye for my healer spec costume - is really just a blessing from the pseudo-RNG algorithm when you open the box.
 
OP feels misplaced entitlement over the possible misuse of a word. His (or her) lawyer will explain why it's pointless to proceed with the lawsuit - we don't need to insult him (or her) by pointing out how silly it is to complain about a free random item. Let the lawyer earn their hour. Stimulate the economy. Go USA.	
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OP you are definitely not QQin' enough about all the free stuff you got. Complain until you get the moon and not just some silly fabkit but a life sized moon that no one else can obtain. Oh wait.... That would just cause QQ about no land rovers... Nvm.
 
 
 
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OP is complaining of the use of the term "you will get" as opposed to the more appropriate "you may get"Personally I have not looked for their wording because I don't care. I understand the box rewards to be randomized amongst a jillion items, and to get anything really nice out of one - I still want a Supernova White Dye for my healer spec costume - is really just a blessing from the pseudo-RNG algorithm when you open the box.OP feels misplaced entitlement over the possible misuse of a word. His (or her) lawyer will explain why it's pointless to proceed with the lawsuit - we don't need to insult him (or her) by pointing out how silly it is to complain about a free random item. Let the lawyer earn their hour. Stimulate the economy. Go USA.
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Car wash free with fill up.
Buy one get two free.
10% off ticket with $20 minimum purchase.
Play our beta get free items. Get the idea?
 
I'm confused what did you think they were? THEY WERE SOMETHING TO ATTRACT PEOPLE!
Keep in mind some were just given out in general just for kicks or to say hey sorry for the mistake here are some extra boxes. But are you really upset about something that was just given for free? Now..if you are saying you only bought the game because of the boxes then well...what can I say to you that just makes you a "cupcake". Keep in mind I just got the minibar in my box sooooo ya. 
 
 
 
I had I think 70+ boxes and oh ya lots of junk...but never did I think I was promised all the greatest stuff! Do I want all the greatest stuff oh hellz ya. Do I feel like they lied to me and I should make a thread about not getting it?........no.
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			Hmmm, how should I feel? I have not gotten any boomboxes.	
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Actually, they advertised BIG BOX GO BOOM!!!!!! 
I'm very upset that my Boom-Boxes do not, in fact, go boom  :(  :angry:	
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one day an MMO will put a companion pet in the box called schroedinger's cat and life will be complete
until then all boxes are a disappointment.	
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			The overall vibe of the boombox is lackluster. They feel worse to open than a Star Wars "medieval merchant" box, and that's saying something. They do exactly what they're supposed to, but feel lame in contrast to the short video they have.	
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			The only thing I want from the boombox is John Cusack holding it, above his head, on my housing plot.	
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Stupid free lottery that guarantees me something useful every day. :/	
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			Meh, I stopped even bothering opening these two weeks ago.  Still have 9 left just sitting there, taunting me at how bad they are.	
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			Virtual World Problems	
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Random Number Generator is random.
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			They are pretty shocking but there is one glimmer of hope, if they ever open a Wildstar scrapyard I'll be rich, I've cornered the market on bronze piglets :D	
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			Brad Pitt doesn't appear infront of you, screaming "What's in the Box!?   What's in the BOXXXXX!?!?!!" as you open it.  I'm officially offended.	
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Brad Pitt doesn't appear infront of you, screaming "What's in the Box!?   What's in the BOXXXXX!?!?!!" as you open it.  I'm officially offended.
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Stupid free lottery that guarantees me something useful every day. :/
 
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			Ask me about all the boxes I bought and opened in gw2 top try and get a set of weapon skins	
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			Sure I got my mount... but I didn't get TWO mounts. I need one for each foot. PONY UP, DEVS!	
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			Im with the OP on this one guys. The people at Powerball told me the more tickets I bought the better odds I would have at winning 500 million dollars, bought a bunch of tickets didnt win. I want my 500 million dollars! 	
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			I got 3 mounts from 8 boxes so far OP, not sure what your issue is. Step up your game.	
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Sure I got my mount... but I didn't get TWO mounts. I need one for each foot. PONY UP, DEVS!
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They gave what was promised, my husband logged into the the game the FIRST time after release, opened a Boom Box and got the Equivar Mount. Lucky? yes!. Did I sulk?, you bet!. However for everyone who wins, countless have to lose. That my friend is life!
 
Sarah	
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I demand to be given what I didn't have to pay for!
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			the devs might not have delivered like you wanted, OP. but you sure did deliver a large amount of rabble in this thread! 8/10	
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The last time I demanded something I didn't have to pay for I got kids 9 months later.
 
I've been paying ever since.
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the devs might not have delivered like you wanted, OP. but you sure did deliver a large amount of rabble in this thread! 8/10
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I will be coming by for some of those, if you can have them ready for me that would be swell thanks.
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			Sold my Raidin Hat for 7 Plat. Not sure how anyone can complain about something free.	
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Sold my Raidin Hat for 7 Plat. Not sure how anyone can complain about something free.
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one day an MMO will put a companion pet in the box called schroedinger's cat and life will be complete
until then all boxes are a disappointment.
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Then in one box you'll get a mount, and no mount at the same time.
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Out of all the beta boxes I had I didn't get one useful thing.
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So to date, i have opened 57, i have 38 left. I have gotten all but the chest to the raidin costume. about 12 dyes, about 5 decore items, 5 gems, about 3 flasks, and a bunch or runes and low end crap. i have yet to see any of the stuff they showed in the video they put out about boom boxes. Now i know its random but that was never said from what i have seen, it just says this is what you will find, now i have 38 more does that mean the mounts will be there? this needs to be addressed by a dev, dont say you will find and we don't get. Thats called 'false advertisement'
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Sold my Raidin Hat for 7 Plat. Not sure how anyone can complain about something free.
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