Santa's Containers: A Time of Gifts!

[Jonathan078NL]

Will make a report of this scam at the national gambling authority of my country too, rigged scamming activities. Hope all WG lootboxes will get banned permanently. 

 

https://kansspelautoriteit.nl/

 

I advise everyone that has been deceived with this fraud aswell, to do the same at your local/national gambling authority. Let WG feel it the right way. You can't scam people like this, period.

[Shaka_D]

2 hours ago, Cheeky_chappie said:

Waiting for the statement too, i don't think they are going to give any compensations, but it should be fun to read what BS excuse the marketing team is going to give.

Then I'll be opening a dispute in Paypal. There is evidence enough to show WG have not acted in good faith and ethically. That they did this is reprehensible.

[Reaver_LV]

2 hours ago, whiskey_sk said:

Here a data point using not insignificant size sample:

 

 

Hm, and it even appears, that if you have everything on the Mega shortlist it then activates the Big container shortlist, because you almost immediately got a Makarov and Orkan after the Ochakov.

[scotty_geturown]

It,s shameful that they have to resort to underhand tactics to scam players, WG enjoy your  Xmas bonus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Merry Christmas and goodwill to all.

[Maris_Piper]

So opening 120 Varying Loot Boxes proves that if you have the crappy ships in port then your safe from the Alleged Scam, But if not your ed,  OK Fine. I'll go with that The Moral of the Story then is when WG release a Copy Paste BS Special You'd best buy it or you'll get it in a Loot Box. 

[DefiantOne]

22 minutes ago, Shaka_D said:

Then I'll be opening a dispute in Paypal. There is evidence enough to show WG have not acted in good faith and ethically. That they did this is reprehensible.

[Alfa_Tau]

2 hours ago, Unfortunate_Son said:

It's past mid day in Soviet Russia and they have not yet managed to decide should they blame marketing or call it a software bug.

 

Good thing about this silence is that "works as specified" seems to be off the table.

I don't want ot be the Devil's Advocate but soviet russia do not exist anymore.

As a matter of fact in a real communist country I doubt this kind of marketing would take place.

This looks more like a mafia thing.. or someone who catched only half od the lesson on capitalism and free enterprise..

[Valkyrie_Hound]

2 minutes ago, Shaka_D said:

Then I'll be opening a dispute in Paypal. There is evidence enough to show WG have not acted in good faith and ethically. That they did this is reprehensible.

Didn't even consider that option to be honest. I doubt very much the response from WG will be acceptable to most. 

[Shaka_D]

10 minutes ago, DefiantOne said:

Have others here disputed their transactions too?

[Valkyrie_Hound]

14 minutes ago, Maris_Piper said:

So opening 120 Varying Loot Boxes proves that if you have the crappy ships in port then your safe from the Alleged Scam, But if not your ed,  OK Fine. I'll go with that The Moral of the Story then is when WG release a Copy Paste BS Special You'd best buy it or you'll get it in a Loot Box. 

They have caused themselves a bit of a problem with it. Many replies to complaints state that the boxes are completely random - which of course its clear they are not. 

[Shaka_D]

1 minute ago, Valkyrie_Hound said:

Didn't even consider that option to be honest. I doubt very much the response from WG will be acceptable to most. 

Of course it won't and they'll likely lock our accounts, but there appears to be ample evidence. And if there are overwhelming disputes being opened PP will be obliged to act, i.e.  if it goes beyond one or two disgruntled buyers.

[Valkyrie_Hound]

1 minute ago, Shaka_D said:

Have others here disputed their transactions too?

I am waiting to see what WG do first. As far as I'm concerned the least they should do is fix the problem to make the boxes random as was stated, tell us the exact odds of catching ships and re-issue everyone who bought boxes new ones. I doubt they will even consider that but I will wait.

[Jonathan078NL]

2 minutes ago, Valkyrie_Hound said:

I am waiting to see what WG do first. As far as I'm concerned the least they should do is fix the problem to make the boxes random as was stated, tell us the exact odds of catching ships and re-issue everyone who bought boxes new ones. I doubt they will even consider that but I will wait.

Well thats even the least they could do to even try to win some trust back. I'm demanding all the money back I spend on these containers, you all should do the same. They didn't deliver what they advertised, all buyers got deceived by false advertising. Pretty big and stupid mistake in the long run if you asked me.

[416taylor]

The only way to get Missouri, Musashi, Kronstadt and all the other rare ships is to have all the premium ships on the list and then buy megacontainers and have them exchanged for supercontainers. I bought 60 mega last year and got all the rear ships that way.

[anonym_cwVecOS6ecVy]

7 minutes ago, Valkyrie_Hound said:

I am waiting to see what WG do first. As far as I'm concerned the least they should do is fix the problem to make the boxes random as was stated, tell us the exact odds of catching ships and re-issue everyone who bought boxes new ones. I doubt they will even consider that but I will wait.

Fraudulent loot boxes were never stopped and running all the time, even when they got shitstormed. They do not give a flying f and still rip off their customers. Everyone should directly uninstall their crappy games and never look back. How long players let themselvs be treated as sheeps?

[ZaalKoris_vas_QwibQwib]

14 hours ago, ShortySunderland said:

Reddit is having fun it apperas.

 

Unless you have that cursed ship for a long time... In Russia Makarov F you, probably Oh wait they put gays in gulags so wrong meme. Makarov Strikes Back. That's better.

 

Oh poop I didn't thought about Makarov-B, -Lima, -R, AL-, HSF or ARP. Enough to create whole ship tree of Makarovs! 

 

Pure and simple GanstaWG. What's the point of EU wide embargo on Russian companies providing any kind of services or business in EU when Cyprus money laundering operations allow any and all (being diplomatic) shady activities.

 

I never participated in "Christmas Extortion Racket Scheme Boxes". In all honesty, I can understand real newbies which throw money at this because they don't understand the system is rigged. But seasoned players should know better. Of course its rigged. It was from the very beginning. At this moment in time I'll sooner believe that "O.J. really didn't do it"** than a word coming from WG. Corporation which is worse than Alphabet, Apple, Amazon, EA, Facebook and Oracle combined. 

 

** - quote from always hilariously funny Undercover Brother.

 

 Only waiting for this car-crash of Commander Tree to go live before deciding what to do. When I read the X-mas news yesterday I couldn't believe my eyes, that they'll be this daft again. But never underestimate the need for unrelenting greed. Greed is eternal. I have enough after 3+ years.

 

 

As a side note. Somebody mentioned this about waiting for premium time to run out. Premium time from the very beginring is most worthless scammiest thing in this game. Especially if you play very little. I only once bought year of Premium when was playing religiously. And I can't get it to run out. For a short while it dipped to 270ish, but then it started to go back and I have constantly well over 300 days. WG constantly "gift" it because its worthless and solely designed to keep you drugged and anchored. I don't care how many days I have to leave, I've got so much free "free" premium time it long eclipsed what I'd purchased (and at 50% discount at that). As for containers people don't know basic math. They buy event containers to get RNG chance at for example 1000 doubloons or 10000 FXP when it is often the same cost to directly buy doubloons and/or convert to FXP without relying on 'WGNG'. I'm not saying don't buy one container if you missing some collection item, but don't buy them to get doubloons of FXP. That's madness just like criminal 65000 doubloons RNG Minnesota in Armory.

[_Fives]

Why is Makarov such a bad ship? 
I don’t have it myself. 

[rage1750]

15 minutes ago, _Fives said:

Why is Makarov such a bad ship? 
I don’t have it myself. 

Russian copy paste of Nurnburg.

 

Nurnburg aka "XP Pinata",  aka "Detonation Flag Generator"

[Mr_BIap_1]

21 minutes ago, _Fives said:

Why is Makarov such a bad ship? 
I don’t have it myself. 

well, let's say Makarov is just a very far cry from the list they use to entice people to buy santa's boxes. Therefore there is a reason people are not amused if there are allegations of the things being set up to give you first meh ships like Makarov to ensure you do not get any of the rare ones straight from the start and buy more boxes.

 

[__Worf__]

did WG responded to this already?

[Cheeky_chappie]

I doubt we will be getting any statement today...
What a shameful conduct by WG, if they plan to cover their a** with a "bad wording" excuse they should have fixed it when the first rigging videos came online, it is not that hard to change an article!
And if they plan to blame it on a bug... any company with even a shred of respect for its customers would have withdrawn the flawed product from sale until it is fixed! And yet, here the boxes are, still available for gullible people to buy.
Shame!

[anonym_cwVecOS6ecVy]

2 minutes ago, Cheeky_chappie said:

And if they plan to blame it on a bug... any company with even a shred of respect for its customers would have withdrawn the flawed product from sale until it is fixed! And yet, here the boxes are, still available for gullible people to buy.
Shame!

It happened and it happens again. Uninstall all of their crappy, fraudulent, misleading and delusive products and never look back. No one should pay tolerance to such a shameless approach.

[anonym_cwVecOS6ecVy]

@Sehales, @MrConway, @The_EURL_Guy, we are waiting for an official statement!

[Alfa_Tau]

31 minutes ago, rage1750 said:

Russian copy paste of Nurnburg.

 

Nurnburg aka "XP Pinata",  aka "Detonation Flag Generator"

FRom a couple of game I can say that per se is not a so bad.

OFC is a tier VI light cruiser therefore you have to play carefully and keep moving..

 

[wot_2016_gunner]

Proprio ora, Alfa_Tau ha scritto:

FRom a couple of game I can say that per se is not a so bad.

OFC is a tier VI light cruiser therefore you have to play carefully and keep moving..

In my experience, Nurnberg is one of the best Tier 6 cruisers, but... why would someone spend money for a Premium copy?