Assassin Xaero said:
Actually, now that I think about it, this reminds me of the whole Golden Key bitching. People were going on about how the Golden Key was falsely advertized as something along the lines of TF2 keys to open crates dropped by enemies, and that they used their key "without realizing" the chest in Sanctuary was gold and required keys to open. What people come up with just to complain amazes me.
Yeah, thing is this chest was literally right around a corner in a very unspectacular looking area. If you walk up to it like you would any chest, it just looks yellow (at first) and you wouldn't see the key insignia at the bottom. No, by the time you were that close it would already be open, wouldn't it? Particularly if you were playing with more then one person, and worried (often justifiably) one or all might be loot ninjas. They put in an inconspicuous chest at the beginning of the game, and there was honestly nothing to indicate what it was until it was too late.
I don't know anyone who carefully examines every box before they open it in this game, especially if they are ventured Borderlands player. This franchise trains you not to do that. Of course, I don't care, I have 5 golden keys right now, but I fully understand the confusion it must have caused. It was just poor level design to put it in a random intersection, and not identify it better. The chance of many people
not making a mistake was impossible. A single sign or something would have done wonders to help this.