No offense, but the problem is that you feel you are entitled to everything thats in these boxes because they are in your inventory.

Lets say we were to flip things. Lets say Nexon gave out keys left and right, but boxes you had to purchased or earned and were as rare as the keys. Would you still be proposing a "Box BPO" for your 600 or so keys? The boxes you have in your inventory are actually empty. When you open one, its like using a ticket to pick from the prize pool. Each box does not have its own programmed inventory. Like "wheel of fortune", when you open it, it spins the wheel and whatever the needle lands on comes out of the box.

Also, i feel that youve completely overlooked what I said about player market. if you could just open them all, you would get officer, proto, Quafe, and BPO items. Sure, at first they will have value. But hundreds of people doing that, after a little while, none of these items will have any value anymore because they will be obtained at essentially no cost.

Right now, if i sign in, do the daily job, get a key, and get 3x 'Quafe' Madrugar, those tanks have a value because of their rarity and the effort that went into them. But if you could just pay a fee and open 600 boxes all at once, you might get something like 90 'Quafe' Madrugars, which could then be dumped onto the market at 50% less priced than those who were earned the normal way.

Players who cant afford 200,000AUR would be driven from participating in whats left of the player market. it would be a disaster.


As for your stockpile of boxes, you either sit on them or sell them to someone. i know that red dot can be unsightly, but thats the only impact having 600 boxes in your inventory has on you. Maybe even a sellback option?

And lol BPO's you can purchase allmost any BPO in the game stright from the marketplace allready. You really think you will get 100 million ISK+ for a apex suit? You might get somewhere around 50 mil and thats it cause allmost every guy on this game has one of them allready.

it was said, by a CPM I think, that initially BPOs wont be tradeable so that the system can be tested, and once bugs/exploits are worked out and the system is safe, BPOs, boosters, and such will be allowed.

As far as your BPO wishes, if you are shopping Gal or Min, its a buyers market. These 2 factions win alot, so their players have banked alot of LP and standing. This means availability for it should be rather high. Unlike Amarr/Caldari BPOs, which would be a sellers market item.

That means youd have more negotiating power shopping for Gal BPOs, and youd probably get a great deal on one if its a less desired one, like the Heavy.

lol @ the quafe tank. You will barely get anything for that well maybe you get a bit more then a STD tank but thats about it. And what ya gonna do if CCP decides next week to put all quafe weapons on the market like they did with the quafe LAV BPO's? And return in investment? Sounds like you spend alot of money on keys to get your hands onto that stuff.

Main issue still remains:
-single usage keys are too expensive
-its random what you get out of the box

I would maybe be willing to buy keys if they where around 100 AUR a pop but 800? HELL NO.
Maybe a other solution like a different kind of key. Call it "bruteforce key" and it has a 30-50% chance to open the strongbox and it costs somewhere around 50k ISK. If it fails you loose the key and the strongbox with it.

Or maybe a new subsystem for the warbarge that produces 1 key per day and more the higher the lvl. With a max of about 5 keys a day.

The same idea was applied when CCP removed every kind of BPO from the market cause they hoped that regular AUR suits/weapons would give them a better income. And now take a look around what happend. We have all militia BPO's, apex suits, LAV BPO's, FW APEX BPO'S etc. The game is bloated with them and i for example have every militia BPO and some suits from closed beta when they where very cheap (not stating the pricetag for it).

How about instead we make the next warbarge node a key generator? Claim keys with components just like the lab.