Lootbox Shenanigans & Tomfoolery

[TsarithArcher]

I left the game shortly after burning through the Mordor Expansion content and came back recently for the Minas Morgul Expansion. Can someone please explain to me what happened while I was away to result in this?



https://imgur.com/a/uQ2bK2E


After doing just the Introduction and Epic Quests Volume 1 Books 1-2, my inventory is now full of nothing but Traveler's Steel-bound Lootboxes. I call SHENANIGANS on the drop-rate! Before I left you'd find only one Lootbox every day or so but now they drop from literally every other trash mob (50% drop-rate, RLY?). This is beyond ridiculous. Is this the new reality for Middle-Earth: Lootbox Simulator 2020? Seriously, what happened to this game in the past two years?


Someone mentioned to me on Reddit that you can now filter Loot. I guess that is an option. Although TBH this is a Developer design issue as they should be made stackable and vendorable if the drop-rate is going to remain being set as high as it is. It's not just QoL to expect as much but a fundamental design philosophy (otherwise you get exactly what is shown in the screen above after 2 days of play for every new player which should never be intentional design under any circumstance). Honestly can say that this isn't a good first impression coming back.

[groucho42]

As keys are only available in the store, they want to force you to spend money. On every new expansion and quest pack, they up the drops to try to suck down that money.

The best thing to do is to alt-r, then drag a lootbox to the panel. You'll stop getting them.

[Valakircka]

i find the drop rate same as it was in 1st mordor expansion.......
but you r both right for the rest you r writting........
the game building is great, the stories are fantastic creations, the lore is superb,
but grinding and money sucking are sending players away.........
i remember, we used to get tons of crafting items for all kind of proffecions!
now we get 3rd age LIs and lootboxes..........

devs if you had dropped some cheese among the lootboxes,
lets say 1% of them is a key dropped by mod, and in the box there is a 50% chance to find a SoE or a Star-lyt,
i bet there would be MUCH MUCH less crying and cursing.....
but you know better...........(sarcastic ofc).........

gonna write it for 1 more time .......
when i buy something i expect i dont have to pay anything more for things they are included to my deal!

[Thurinuor]

I left the game shortly after burning through the Mordor Expansion content and came back recently for the Minas Morgul Expansion. Can someone please explain to me what happened while I was away to result in this?


https://imgur.com/a/uQ2bK2E

After doing just the Introduction and Epic Quests Volume 1 Books 1-2, my inventory is now full of nothing but Traveler's Steel-bound Lootboxes.

This picture must be a joke. If you really "just done the introduction and epic 1 book 1-2", you will NEVER get SO many lootboxes. You picture shows hundreds of them. If you want to defame the game, you have to find a story which is more believable. And if this should be real, it has to be a bug or something else. I don't believe any word of your story.

[Askelin]

Do yourself a favor... Filter them and never again see a lootbox filling up your inventory.
The shortcut is "ALT+R". This will bring up the loot filter panel.

Simply drag the undesired item into the filtered/filtered (account) section to stop receiving these drops from mobs or chests in the future.

You can also filter quests (such as introductory quests for content you don't have so you don't have to constantly see 'new quests available' pop up every time you log in)
You can even filter specific sound files from playing (don't like the fact your hobbit screams every 5 seconds? Would you rather eerie silence? Filter away!

[Askelin]

This picture must be a joke. If you really "just done the introduction and epic 1 book 1-2", you will NEVER get SO many lootboxes. You picture shows hundreds of them. If you want to defame the game, you have to find a story which is more believable. And if this should be real, it has to be a bug or something else. I don't believe any word of your story.

Nope, I believe every word... It's 100% possible that he got that many lootboxes from playing the game for any amount of time.
The drop rate really is that generous... If only there was a drop rate for black keys amirite?

[Raymore]

There were times while playing in Mordor that I would rarely get a Lootbox. Recently in Anduin I was destroying Travelers Loitboxes like crazy. Now in the current expansion I've been getting quite a few Adventurers Lootboxes. No where near the numbers shown by the OP. Exaggeration maybe, and I've been playing for 1 mill..., eh, 100 billion hours.

[cdq1958]

Drop rate is about 1 per 50 kills. That is on average and given lots of events and means 49 ways to fail for every one way to succeed. Do *not* forget the variance. OP's pic can happen, given a long 'lucky' streak. I've also seen long streaks of none to few drops. That said, the Traveller's boxes do not drop from mobs under level 20 or so; at least in my experience.

[Askelin]

Nope OP is 100% right in his claim and I can prove it.

100% true and not edited