Those boxes are a waste of money, horrible RNG (as is everything in this game ). In fact, you're better off just buying gold from gold sellers than anything from Trion.
I don't mind having a chance to fail to upgrade, or having to upgrade one piece of armour and hope that it hits a certain type so that I can continue to upgrade it since that promotes trading on the auction house etc which is great. I don't mind the idea of the boxes, I just don't like that a holiday event that is supposed to add fun stuff for players to do, is instead replaced with another thing that will eat up your money.
I was going to write a whole bunch of drivel about how I hate the way these types of games are going, comparing this seasonal "pay to pray" box fest with the given content of WoW, whereby you are paying a subscription to access all the content instead of select buffs as ArcheAge have it but instead I shall say this;
It irks me that Trion are giving exclusive content to people who pay above the odds instead of adding content such as events etc that other games like WoW used to, and probably still do.
On another note, Halloween? Sodding children knocking on peoples doors & begging for sweets. "Trick or Treat"? What the hell have you done to deserve a treat?
Christ, I sound like I'm 75 or something. "Back in my day... *Grumble, grumble*" *Shakes cane*
Just ignore the miserable git that I am. I wasn't hugged enough as a child or something.