Let’s take the guy who spent 72 million SL for example. First of all, it’s no easy task and requires you to either play most of a day everyday or to wait several months to reach that amount of SL.
He got approx. 410$ worth of vehicles,which is nice if you think about it for a moment.
However,even if he spent 72 hours to accumulate 72 million SL (which is a generous assumption) only to get those vehicles,it means that his effort was valued at 5.70$/hr. You can receive the same or more amount of money with most of the jobs available.
So yeah,the idea of refunding the currency you lose is a big IF since you’re basically at the mercy of an astronomically low RNG: you either get super duper lucky and get a 200$ vehicle by spending less than a million,or you can get a 5$ vehicle by spending 20+ million SL,and then there are all of the possibilities in the middle regarding “how much you spend vs. how lucky you were”
You can’t make a statistics out of these crates,you can’t consider them a source of income other than the mole of RP/SL boosters,so gambling on them is absolutely a bad form of habit
Thanks for doing the maths. I can only speak for myself. As I don’t play Toptier, I have little interest in buying the vehicles from the trees.
The SL I earn accumulate over time and what else am I supposed to do with them? I’m not even saving consciously. It happens on the side. I also don’t think I’ll throw another 6 million into the toolboxes. I was lucky … like last time … VK45.01 (P) bagged^^
Same, I just played a few matches and forgot how frickin annoying it is. I forgot that even using the moffet or frank knox, you can get an assist after killing most of enemy crew and still only get 300 SL
Still,even if you prefer playing at middle tiers and don’t have all of the event vehicles there,getting one from these boxes has the same chances of getting another one or getting nothing basically.
For anyone that says “But the chances”: Yes,Gaijin added the chances of getting said rewards, but not the exact amount (only the Obj. 279). It is mandatory for them to add a “chance number” publicly available, otherwise they would break the first EU law regarding gambling. They did the minimum,so unless they’re gonna publish the exact,unbiased and super-documented chances for every reward in these chests,every vehicle has the same chance of getting picked
So even as i invested access SLs (i have everything i want to play) i still miss a kind of trading platform without money (in order to circumvent this block by MS and Sony for consoles).
I would have no problem to trade the stuff above for a Fw 190 C and/or Ki-94 plus a PV-2D - fully aware of that they are not easy to use in Air RB, but in test flights they responded very good to the input of my HOTAS, so from a pilot perspective they would be nice to have…
Edit: Another 25 boxes - so now 150: Nothing.
Edit II: Another 25 = 175 this round: Nothing.
Okay so,first of all thank you for ordering the vehicles you got by Nation,it helped me a lot
Then,3 of your vehicles are not listed in the Marketplace (MC 590,AC I and Yak-3T),so their value can’t be properly described (it varies between 0 and ∞)
The F4D,the VFW and the Po-2M all add to a grand total of 141$ ca. At the time of writing
You spent approx 9mil SL (not counting the partial refund). Even here,if we assume you earn 1 million SL an hour,and you spent 9 hours grinding those 9mil,your payout today with these boxes is 15.7 $/hr
Which is almost triple the amount of my previous example,and is more in line with what the chances of a well-rigged gambling system should be
Still,keep in mind the usual thing: there may be people that “earned” your same amount with less or more SL spent,so it is definitely not chance based.
So after reading this thread I decided to gamble for the first time with this mechanic, and out of 350 toolboxes I got a full load of crop and only one vehicle that I already had (the 2.0 pansarbil m/40…). Still have 100M SL to spare but… never again. I had some fun stacking the super-duper boosters that expire in two days though, so there’s that.
21 million SL for 15 dollars worth of a vehicle,which makes your payout a staggering drum roll 0,70$/hr!!!
The poorest country in the world probably has a better payout than this lmao. That’s why i repeat:these boxes are only good for the plethora of boosters you’ll receive
It’s a game of chance. You shouldn’t gamble if you’re not prepared to lose. The probability of winning something is low. Very low!
The thread here is not intended to suggest otherwise. My point here is simply to rejoice with those who have been lucky instead of constantly complaining about bad luck.
Just be happy for others. I’m not constantly rubbing other people’s noses in how shit I think Toptier is. Live and let live … it’s not difficult.
That’s the main reason why I try these lootboxes, to get the T-72M2 Moderna for “free”. Happened the same on the previous lootboxes, got a few vehicles that I already own, so I ended with the 1M SL instead.
