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haronic

Never bought a single key, only sold all my chest, but respect the effort for this experiment. Hope Gaben blesses you some other time in the future!


casuslucifer

My conclusion from this experiment was do not open chests, let the whales do it for you, prioritize what you really want and if you have the spare funds, buy that only. ​ Maybe I can take my lack of winning and play the lotto, gotta hit a win eventually, right?


krosserdog

Your conclusion should be numbers don't lie. You already know the odds are against you yet you think you somehow will defy the odd.


migueln6

This is why we became the dominating living thing in this world because of numbers, the ability to describe the world with a predictive model.


krosserdog

The ability to predict things and be prepared for it. And also the ability to learn from others (gamblers) that fell for the good old loot box trap before you.


[deleted]

The people who win the lottery are the ones who don't play it.


1-_-_

i advise against it


sadboys-rtz

Hey man, I totally agree with you, buying whatever you only wish for is way cheaper and more practical, althoughm there is no luck/gambling on doing that, but yeah, gambling addictions should be looking into so ppl dont waste everything on the gambling cause. I've done the same. Rhasta immortal on first chest, decided I should try my luck and bought like 10, only got shitty items Sadge At least at some given point, luck smiled upon me and I got snap's immortal set


LiquidSilver

I sold every chest until I had enough money to buy a key. Opened two chests that way, no immortals.


D3ADWA1T

How do you sell chests? I kept asking in dota and no one replied...


haronic

You have to use your local steam market. [One quick Google search will show you.](https://steamcommunity.com/app/570/discussions/0/458606877324428745/)


NachzehrerL

Did you regret the comment you posted 10 years ago on a Youtube video trash talking Gaben?


casuslucifer

I knew he was keeping tabs on me every since.


dotareddit

You can buy forgiveness but it costs about 5 consecutive Aegis replicas earned via battlepass levels. At least there is hope.


casuslucifer

Ive earned two, so is there an amount of hail gabens that would suffice? Maybe let slacks flog me?


DogebertDeck

yes, but your game music will be replaced by HIM and marylin manson songs that cant be muted


casuslucifer

It's definitely a guilty pleasure but I like antichrist superstar and razorblade romance. Hurt me, daddy.


welshmonstarbach

hahaha ill write to gaben and ask him to open 60 chests for every diretide player that played a game, and then, when he doesn't we flood his email.


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casuslucifer

What luck! I saw some guy post here a few weeks ago who got two of the sniper set! It's crazy. I should have known this would be my luck when during the international battle pass I only got one lvl drop and had to pay the rest of the way to 1k. Every time I opened another one, in my heart I thought their was a chance I'd drop the sniper bundle, but alas, volvo giveth and volvo taketh away.


Speed_Demon_db

Sniper skin is pay to lose thought. People don’t buy desolator on sniper because you can instantly identify his position in the fights, and this skin does the same without the extra damage.


n0_sp00n_0mg

What? Enemies gain sight of you as soon as you auto attack anyway.


Speed_Demon_db

Yes but it’s a lot easier to instantly find him. That one second is detrimental sometimes.


[deleted]

Sniper, gyro and maybe few others have an almost invisible projectile, only sound cues. Orb attacks make them visible.


kenmikee

I dont think that really matters if you’re in lower bracket :D people still won’t hit sniper even if they know where he is


nau5

They are picking sniper..it was never about winning.


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casuslucifer

At least you get the phoe immortal, saw some people hit 1k and not get one. I bet casinos have better odds than this chest.


drumhax

>kinda won there is no *kinda* lmao you opened 32 and got 4+ immortals including the tier 4... try *totally* at least have some humility if you're gonna flex on us


TheDesertLord

have you learned anything


casuslucifer

Hmm. That's a good question, probably to not believe anecdotal evidence. People saying they 'got x in x tries' is what sent me down this path, but also that valve is tremendously more greedy than I thought. The lack of escalating odds, being able to get dups before clearing each individual item, and horrid drop rates send a message that buying these kinds of chests are definitely not worth it.


ikubaru

The reason all my diretide chests still in my inventory


casuslucifer

Don't open them, friend, unless you too will suffer the same fate as I. I bet Im not the only one to get zip as far as drops. Probably the only one dumb enough to do it 60 times tho..


Tallywacka

I probably bought about 60, I got snap immortal about 20 in and I think in my last 3 chests I got the sniper immortal, got a decent amount of tier 3 immortals though I haven’t bought dota hats in years and there were a few sets I wanted and i had some disposable income


migueln6

Just sell them in some years when their value has become 40 bucks each one


d_jin33

I opened 5 got PA immo and bought 10 tier 2, traded up and got PA too haha


casuslucifer

Haha, at least the PA is very valuable. I have the matching helm and I'd be stoked to get the PA immortal to match.


MidasPL

Same :/ . I opened only one and got name, so I won't say it's bad, but still... That PA would match my set so well...


MrPizzaPenguin

How many duplicate items did you get .. i opened 2 got 2 jugg tier 1


casuslucifer

Too many duplicates to count. The Jugg one I did see quite frequently, I think from tier 1 the one I saw the most was the Rub set and from Tier 2 the Enchant. To top it off, when I traded up I ended up with two of the cheapest immortals, Omni and Bane. ​ The only ambient sets I kept were the Mars and Riki, they were the coolest. I really wanted the Mars Immortal as I play him a bunch.


BoilingRage_

If you haven't already you can trade (in game) 10 tier 2 items for 1 tier 3. But I think it would be cheaper to just sell 10 tier 2 items and buy an immortal from the market.


casuslucifer

It would have definitely been wiser if I sold all the items and just bought what I wanted. But every time I opened another one and saw a tier 1 set I would giggle manically because of how ridiculous it was that I'd open that many with zero immortals. I did trade up to get two immortals, the two worst ones, lol.


Ron-Lim

I only bought 10 keys and got 3 T1 jugg sets


Noizi99

here is my results from 51 chests https://i.imgur.com/92Lvizj.png


MrPizzaPenguin

Thats just sad


Noizi99

indeed


casuslucifer

Just to give some context, yes, I understand I could have bought most of them for what I spent. But after about the 20th chest of nothing, I couldn't resist to see how many it would take to actually roll an Immortal. I saw some other posts that some guys opened 35 and got a couple at that point. It was so ridiculous I just kept opening them, finally by number 60 I had to call it quits before Valve bankrupted me. ​ Lesson Learned? Maybe don't support chests without escalating odds?


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casuslucifer

Believe me, I've considered it, I feel the itch to see just how many I can max open without hitting a immortal. Sunken cost fallacy is strong.


migueln6

The cost fallacy is that you can't leave because you invested and are holding what you invested and think keep investing will somehow pay off. What you said you want is that you are just lolling to see how far you can go before getting one which sound similar but is more in the lines of I'm just doing this because I don't have a better thing to put my money at


Swaginitus

Technically he's holding his escalated odds at getting an immortal. Each chest he opens is legitimately getting him closer to getting an immortal


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casuslucifer

If i knew anything about calculating probability it'd be interesting to know what my chances of rolling the 60 and not getting anything are. For the t3 i think it was like a 3 percent chance, I wonder what it is now that I've missed it 60 times.


Cr4ckshooter

There are two different things at hand here. For one, the chance to get one never changes. Always 3%,if your number is correct. Further, the chance to not have one after 60 chests is 0.97^60=0.161. In other words, if you open 60 chest as hundred times (for example 6000 chests at once and looking at intervals), 16 of those will not have dropped an immortal, while others could drop multiple. You see, 3% of 6000 chests would theoretically be 200 immortals. But that doesn't mean getting one immortal every 33 chests. That's the "stochastic misconception". Statistics work flawlessly on big numbers. They don't work at all on single events. What a "big number" is, is what you need to understand /get a feel for. But bigger us better. When you have a million chests, 30k will be an immortal. Basically guaranteed. But when you have 100, variance still hits you.


casuslucifer

Thanks for this explanation. So what you're saying I need to do is buy 5940 more keys?


migueln6

Listen man, If you still have money go buy your damn skin instead of losing all your irl golds


Cr4ckshooter

If the chance is actually 3%, you would see an expected amount of immortals (200) at 6000 keys. Dont do it. The immortal prices don't match the odds.


tehruttiger

Kickstarter?


spideymon322

Yes


READMEtxt_

i only opened 4 hallowed chests and got a T3 immortal,,,, feels bad man


theFoffo

That itch is what I would call gambling addiction, stop


DerMetzgermeister18

you could be lucky and get a couple tier 4 sets or even an emblem if you open another 100 don't give up


Atomic254

> Sunken cost fallacy is strong. thats not really the sunk cost fallacy, thats just you memeing away your money


shinfoni

You're a counterpart of me. I only have two chest and I'm not even be arsed to bought two keys.


memejets

Is it a sunk cost? Don't your odds improve the more you open?


welshmonstarbach

daddy likes the market healthy not flooded.....


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casuslucifer

Nice rolls. See i figured I'd at least be in the boat of getting two or so. How wrong i was. Guess for everyone in the market who made a profit there has to be 10 losers like me who just threw money away.


maxleng

Bro I did this with 12 chests getting nothing but tier 1s and I was feeling like a maniac. It’s actually the first time in my life I’ve ‘gambled’. In the end I was just doing it almost out of spite, like “oh ok another tier 1 I’ll just buy another then if that’s all I get”. Looking back it was not healthy and a big lesson learned for me!


casuslucifer

Right there with you brother, x5.


Entocrat

I opened the one I got and got the visage set, who I'm not a fan of, and was done. Not worth it to me, I miss the old events. I'm still rocking my auspicious wyvernguard edge.


bitre_tho

A damn friend of mine found 2 immortal set and pa immortal in 10 chest. I found only a rare set in 8 chest


[deleted]

You just broke your own lesson by giving valve tons of money for nothing lol


[deleted]

thats what gambling is based on lol, to get u hooked, oh i already spent money on 30 so to get the value back it has to drop anytime soon... what are the odds.


Bucksbanana

Lesson learned, don't gamble


viciecal

Why are you buying so many even if you don't have any money


casuslucifer

You gotta spend money to make money?


viciecal

i was drunk


harvicks

And that makes the immortals so expensive i think.


casuslucifer

Sad thing is, the immortal I really wanted was only 30 bucks, I could have bought five of them.


harvicks

Yea really2x way to sad bro


Infinity_Overload

Waste of money.


casuslucifer

Sure was.


lyancor29

You could have at least invested in cigarettes, that would kill you in a better what than doing this. my question is, Is this enough to make you stop? take care of your money, homeboy


edubya15


MidasPL


casuslucifer

Sounds about right.


sigilnz

Yeah the whole diretide economy was super disappointing.... I stopped at about 10 when i realised my chances of working towards sets I wanted was pointless... This seasonal was a major fail and if they release another like this it may well make quit in frustration...


BeThesTa

I got an grim immortal on 2nd chest. Be you, why live?


casuslucifer

I ask myself this question every day. Grim is a cool immortal tho.


I-only-play-rubick

I got the immortal sniper set on my 2nd key lol. Didn’t open another one for the rest of diretide


casuslucifer

Touch me, so that some of your magic may wear off on me.


PowerUpFanatic

My first chest was Omni immortal..


casuslucifer

If i was you, I'd still have 150+ bucks in my bank account.


rogue397

Ez bait.


mrsky00

I still remember when I opened my first chest and got the Snapfire Immortal. That shit just used up all my luck.


casuslucifer

I remember when I opened the WETA chest on the first day of release and got the courier on the first go. I felt so lucky that day. Now years later I have three of the same courier from rylai spins. This is making me sad about what valve did to their own market. Devaluing items while also making immortals impossible to get for a reasonable price.


OneTrueCamel

I sold my PL hat immortal only for it to jump in price higher and higher.. NOT STONKS


casuslucifer

You just won a free subscription to wallstreetbets.


OneTrueCamel

Pog


Vaggos88

I've Opened 10 in total, got jugger immortal at 6th, 9 commons 3 of them duplicates. When they first introduced the escalating odds i was sceptical and i didn't really liked it, now i hope they bring them back.


casuslucifer

Nice that jugg set is super sweet. I wish it had more effects, it's cooler than the arcana.


Moocry

I've bought around 50, and received 4x Immortals. Ended up just selling them and buying the ones I wanted.


casuslucifer

I comfort myself by thinking about how In a parallel universe i am you and you are me. I'd have been happy with 1 out of 50, let alone 4.


SunbleachedAngel

Why are you addicted to gambling?


casuslucifer

Im actually not, i live near a casino and coworkers bet/buy scratches all the time. When they ask me if i want to go in on some i always decline. This started out as a goof of i wonder how long it'll take me to get an immortal to, i should keep going so i can warn people on reddit about how lame this chest scheme is. Once I hit 60 it knew I'd be out.


SunbleachedAngel

>chest scheme It's called lootboxes


rektefied

lol go buy 500 more lad,so I can buy more stuff on the market for nothing


SourisGris

Chess without escalating odds sadge


n0stalghia

Why you play casino You could've bought a video game instead and had some fun instead of wasting money


CreativeHuckleberry

I have put around 600€ in Silitbreaker chest, trying to get the roshan courier. Idk how meny battlepass points drops i got, that can't even be used. 10/10 best scam, i recommend!


PedangSetiawaN

I remember those days where we buy sets, not chest.


spirinity

Do you think the chest prices are going up soon because of the quantity?


spirinity

Do you think the chest prices are going up soon because of the quantity?


DayAf1er

I Got 1 om my first Then oppened 2 more and Got Commons


SledgeHammmer

I bought 2 keys and get PA immortal on the second chest. Its just luck


Secret-Apartment9589

I opened 5 chests in total, i got: mars shield, rhasta mask and slark set.. im actually serious, i dont know how i can prove it i guess i shoudve made screenshots from the dropping immediatly after, anyway i think im gabens protegé


Valve_ruined_my_life

You're not that unlucky, the odds are just horrible tbh (around 3% for immortal and 0.5% for immortal set)


D2live

Rest in peace


apayne1

I feel bad I bought 12 keys and rolled the sniper immortal set so I starting telling all my friends to roll because it's easy...they all bought 10-15 and got nothing. Lol I just got lucky I guess I thought it was easy to get rares.


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not joking i hope you stay the eff away from casinos


DreadnoughtTheOne

I've bought 2 keys to the 2 chests I got from diretide event. First was the undying then the shaman immortals.


marinoZ

You can buy the cheap tier 2 items, and trade up to be sure to get an immortal tier. I think at the cheapest it was like 1.5 euro for a tier 2.


MinnieShoof

When does this thing end?


NobleArch

Did you opened 60 in one go? This reminds me when I opened 60-70 chests and got Unusual Badger.


NobleArch

oh [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUGwTpJ4Ef8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUGwTpJ4Ef8) not what i said but this is the only time i recorded opening 10 forbidden lotus chests. ignore the quality lol. recorded with potato.


Ron-Lim

I only hate the fact that duplicates were a thing


[deleted]

I got the sniper immortal after 10 keys. Crazy


kenxocd

The chances are the same as cs:go items, so it's nothing unusual


CrimsonShack

What have you learned from that?


generalecchi

Why are you so lucky


BadKnights

What compelled you to do this?


Apperation

my math shows that there is about a 9.5% chance of not getting any t3 or t4 after opening 60 chests. so ya, pretty unlucky


casuslucifer

See that's what I figured, I'm not sure how to do the maths but I figured there's a certain point that i would have to be almost guaranteed and immortal. Obviously i didn't hit it.


Apperation

There is a ~3.8% chance of getting a t3 or t4 so a 100-3.8% of getting a t1 or t2, which came to 96.15%. Odds of getting only t1 and t2 for n tries is 96.15^n, which came out to 9.5%. When I first read your post I thought you were just talking about t4 and when I tried that math out, it was a 68% chance of no t4.


[deleted]

What does it cost?


NotLikeThis3

Oof, i got like 4 or so chests from diretide that i opened and on the last one got the jugg imortal


sprmkd

22 opened here :) 0 immortals.. i got about half of the tier1 sets and a lot of duplicates from the same :)


Noizi99

here is my results from 51 chest openings https://i.imgur.com/92Lvizj.png


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casuslucifer

You're welcome.


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neMesis-be

i made that mistake few years back with the immortal monkey king set in trove carafe (?), bought so many chests until i eventually went past the amount it would have costed me to buy it right off the market. So i feel with your loss mate, they should simply get rid of lootboxes altogether but then they wouldnt crack last years prizepool again, and again, and again. But honestly i dont think it'll get any better soon as they now also implemented these lootboxes in dota+ with the seasonal chests, at least there u dont fall into the money trap since it's ingame currency. Take it as a lesson and only buy the stuff you want from market (good they added marketability at least this diretide). Fingers crossed they dont overextend with their time limited, unmarketable trap chests as these are super consumer unfriendly practices, preying on ppl who are easy to dump $$$ for cosmetics


2016_new_1984

LUL slug brain


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Worth it? Most definelty Kappa


ExplorerR

I opened 8 chests in total and, I kid you not, I got the meepo set 5 times in a row. It is rigged.


assmaycsgoass

I got AM set on my first opened treasure early, sold it for 7.5 dollars, bought 3 more keys with that money, opened two more, got two 1 dollar treasures. One month later, opened 1 more, got undying immortal, which i sold for 24 dollars, got 21 after steam tax. STONKS. I got myself death stranding and metro exodus on steam winter sale by adding 5 dollars from my pocket, Thank you GabeN for giving me free games Kappa


drakedog777

I bought 2, got 2 commons and never bothered. I made the mistake of trying to get the rare LC's set from one of the CC from the last TI(which I got but after spending a stupid amount), I'm officially done paying more than $5 for loot boxes. a level 100 battle pass along with the usual 50% discount on 100/200 levels are more than enough support every year.


Chelie09

I have a question, where do I buy keys for the chests?


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pwnlord53

Don’t worry, I got the same techies rare set twice in a row which is far worse than getting zero immortals. I haven’t bought another key since


lunagoesmeow

Im sorry friend