Island Expeditions - awful experience

[Annastasi-cenarius (Annastasi)]

I think IE’s should always reward doubloons if you win.

maybe something like a guranteed 5 for normal, 10 heroic, 15 mythic (or w/e). then if they want to add RNG to it (because we know how much they love RNG) they could put in a chance to proc more doubloons.

I agree with whoever said IE’s are more engaging than warfronts or invasions… but adding doubloons to EVERY win would be a huge improvement.

[Torvald-deathwing (Torvald)]

The entire purpose of the RNG and every other crap feature that goes along with it is to increase participation in islands. This way they can point at a chart and say “see they like them”

Pretty much. At launch, they hoped that by saturating island expeditions with rewards, and putting them all on RNG, players would be given over to casino-like psychological addiction. They’d always have one more reward to chase, to keep priming away at the place for those 1% chances at the things they’re after.

Not that this approach is new for Blizzard, but BFA really took it to a new level, and I think Blizzard underestimated the extent to which, rather than addicting players to chasing an endless series of RNG rewards, it actually just demoralized and deterred those players from participating further.

Island Expeditions could have actually been a pretty central plank in the casual day-to-day of the playerbase, and one that provided a satisfying return for time invested, if they had only been confidant enough to design it around deterministic reward structures instead of RNG ones. Their reliance on RNG here - and worse their continued failure to get off of it despite the constant feedback they got right from launch - really reflects badly on the BFA team.

[Dedaru-moon-guard (Dedaru)]

I need people to vote on my question about Dubloons because I need the answer from Ion himself so I can stare at his smug little face and watch him try to dodge the question.

I want that awkward silence, this is your punishment, ION!

Live Developer Q&A Thursday, January 24 – Submit Your Questions

A lot of us want to do Island Expeditions but unfortunately the drop rate after getting both the Ship Upgrade and the launch of 8.1 severely destroyed any want to do it. Is there any plans on upgrading the drop rate on dubloons in the future?

[Lepermessiah-thunderlord (Lepermessiah)]

I’ve only been running them for a couple days now but I have actually gotten quite a few pets and plundered items, one of which I sold for 150k. Not too bad after all. The dubloons add up after a while. Like anything else, it’s a grind if you want the Albatross but definitely attainable if you set your mind to it like the Bone White Primal Raptor on the Isle of Giants back in MoP.

[Moonstar-earthen-ring]

You must have good luck then and since you’re new to them you haven’t had time to hit insane droughts. Having run them for months, I’ve gone long stints with 0-1 dubloons and no other rewards. I still liked them after the first couple days too. Now though…

[Atheaoakclaw-sisters-of-elune (Atheaoakclaw)]

Bear mogs on little people get a