I use gems a lot, but I won't waste gems on the chance of getting a mount skin I might want! Show me a mount skin I want and let me buy that. What's the deal with trying to lure people into spending thousands of gems for the chance to get a specific skin, anyway? Any gambler will tell you that if the odds of getting an item is one in say, thirty, the odds are going to be 1 in 30 every single time you try. It's not like if the odds are one in thirty you'll get what you want after thirty tries. You could go a thousand times and never get what you were looking for. This is a poor marketing practice, Anet. It's a sucker bet wrapped up in a convenient term ("lootbox"). We admire and respect GW2, show us the same respect. Don't market to us a sales scheme that you yourselves would not stand for.
I use gems a lot, but I won't waste gems on the chance of getting a mount skin I might want! Show me a mount skin I want and let me buy that. What's the deal with trying to lure people into spending thousands of gems for the chance to get a specific skin, anyway? Any gambler will tell you that if the odds of getting an item is one in say, thirty, the odds are going to be 1 in 30 every single time you try. It's not like if the odds are one in thirty you'll get what you want after thirty tries. You could go a thousand times and never get what you were looking for. This is a poor marketing practice, Anet. It's a sucker bet wrapped up in a convenient term ("lootbox"). We admire and respect GW2, show us the same respect. Don't market to us a sales scheme that you yourselves would not stand for.