I'm here to buy ingame items, not gamble for them. Lootboxes are exploitative, a horrible continuation of the trend that's been happening with black lion drops becoming account bound so they can't be sold on the TP. It's one thing to have dye packs that might not drop the dye you want, but where you can still get that dye on the TP from other people who got duplicates. That's bad enough, but it doesn't require people to gamble to get the item they want. Recent black lion drops like the elemental sword, the dwayna wings, the dwayna bird mini, etc. require gambling, with no other options, and that's downright unacceptable. There's a reason gambling is regulated IRL, the fact that video games laws haven't caught up is not reason to be this unethical. Mount skins are another, huge step in that direction. Having to gamble, often ending up paying more than you can afford because of the nature of how gambling works, rather than paying a flat fee for the product you want like a normal, decent transaction. I have spent hundreds and hundreds of dollars on this game. I'm a huge skin addict. Hell, I'm working retail along with my usual freelance just so I can afford more gems, but I have never bought black lion keys and have no intention to do so. I also will not be buying any more gems, period, even for non-rng content, until I see this required rng trend stop. Not another cent out of me. I have the money for it now but not everyone does, and your willingness to take advantage of those people deeply disturbs me. I'm not supporting that. Lootboxes are the dirtiest tactic in video games at present and I'm absolutely disgusted that arenanet, the company I always thought of as better than the rest, has resorted to the same low blows as everyone else. Shape up, or this paying player is gone.