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Jeff Kaplan acknowledging loot box feedback in Overwatch
- Thread starter Sn4ke_911
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Obliterator
Member
The main issue in all of this imo is the amount of gold you get for dupes. Like only 250 for a duplicate Legendary skin is ridiculous. I get they need to monetize and make money so getting the full 1000 gold is unrealistic, but you should at least get half of the items value
Poohblaster
Member
More like
We realized our skinner box is too slow in triggering your dopamine glands. We're going to up the dose to make you peasants happy.
We realized our skinner box is too slow in triggering your dopamine glands. We're going to up the dose to make you peasants happy.
AlexFlame116
Member
The Overwatch forums have been a battleground lately so I'm actually surprised that Jeff responded.
EchoChamber
Member
"First we need to milk the cow dry"
Indeed, getting legendary boxes that aren't event related is even worse in some ways.
KZXcellent
Member
It'd be better if they reward you more for dupes and lowered the cost of Event items. Say you get a Legendary Money in your lootbox. Super rare. You need SIX of those to afford ONE Legendary event skin. That's absurd. I feel like lowering the cost of Legendary Event Skins from 3000 to 2000 and doubling the currency you get from dupes would really balance it out.
But they want money so I don't see them flipping on this very easily. I'll still end up buying boxes regardless because I'm crazy.
But they want money so I don't see them flipping on this very easily. I'll still end up buying boxes regardless because I'm crazy.
Not getting duplicates would be amazing, getting not even half but a quarter(1/5th?) of a items value if its a duplicate is just a kick to the nuts.
NeoRaider
Member
This!
But i am glad that ppl are finally waking up and voicing their anger and disappointment about this, not just on their forums but everywhere. It looks like things will change in the future. At least i hope so.
There was a lot of negative comments during the summer games, next event they allowed you to buy skins with coins at 3x the cost. Hopefully they make another adjustment, but i agree it's just words now.
Problem could be partly "fixed" if duplicates would give 50% of their worth in coins, rather than what, 20%?
And getting a duplicate event exclusive skin worth 3k should not give the same amount of coins as a normal legendary skin worth 1k.
Coin drops could also get boosted a little too.
And getting a duplicate event exclusive skin worth 3k should not give the same amount of coins as a normal legendary skin worth 1k.
Coin drops could also get boosted a little too.
Revolutionary
Member
Increase dupe value, allow rerolls, and make more event-agnostic unlocks. There's no good reason why we only have 3 weeks to unlock dancing emotes for our characters.
Jawmuncher
Member
I'd actually use that often for a shit ass loot box
Acidote
Member
Something as simple as having 1 of the items guaranteed not to be a dupe would already be an improvement.
The Broken Ska Record
Member
I'd be happy with themed boxes only having themed items. Like the Anniversary one only having anniversary skins and not stuff from regular loot boxes.
It's incredibly unlikely they get rid of dupes. It would completely undermine the idea of buying near infinite amount of lootboxes hoping you get what you wanted.
It's also the main way to get in game currency
Psychoward
Banned
Make player icons purchaseable, change event items to only 2x or 1.5x the cost of regular items, make loot box odds slightly better, reduce xp per level by a thousand or two.
Voila
Voila
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
The anniversary event added a ton of trash drops so the problem feels even worse now because you aren't even pulling pulling out 100g in dupes every box. I feel like just adding guaranteed 150g in every box would be nice. So at worst you are getting event skins every 20 boxes. Most people will level or get 20 boxes from an event with regular play.
7DollarHagane
Banned
Yep, testing the limits to see how much bullshit people would be suckered in for.
Keep paying for my free modes and maps, suckers.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
This is the most "it's fucking nothing" statement I've read in a long time.
Maybe. But without them, people would think Blizzard never read their forums. Everyone know they do, but it seems they need a reminder once in a while with statements saying basically "Yes, we do read you".
capylikesgames
Banned
I've never missed out on event drops I wanted as long as I played regularly during the event. I usually have enough coins to grab anything that didn't drop, too. Though if they do address lootbox rates, it could only be for the best. They didn't have to acknowledge the complaints either, so while I'm not praising a simple response, it's nice that they positively responded to feedback.
AlexFlame116
Member
I guess this thread hates it too.
Dang. I hope that things get improved for you guys though. Especially with the dance emotes.
Dang. I hope that things get improved for you guys though. Especially with the dance emotes.
7DollarHagane
Banned
What an overreaction.
If people who have too much money to spend want to fund new maps and modes for games with loot boxes, that's a win for those of us who don't care about that stuff. Better than season passes and map packs, thats 100% truth.
SuperBanana
Banned
The loot boxes were fine at the start. I got a decent amount of skins and would happily pay a bit to try and get the others. Then after Halloween I started getting almost none. Even buying 10 loot boxes and getting zero. After 9 loot boxes this event I've gotten 1 skin. The rate has dropped so low it feels like a waste of money to put any money into it now and I'm less interested because I get fuck all out of the events even if I play every day.
Nydius
Member
Yep. They advertise the event by promoting the over 100 "new Anniversary items" bullet point but almost a full quarter of those supposedly new things (if we round it down to simply 100 items) are gold recolors of each of the silhouette player icons. I can't say for certain but it looks like every character ALSO gets a playing card spray, so that's another near quarter - but at least those are genuinely new, not just recolors of existing sprays.
E:
No other event has pushed 11 Legendary skins and 24 Epic emotes at once, either. And that doesn't count all of the voice lines (at least one per character, IIRC), sprays (also at least one per character), and the recolored player icons.
Dark Ninja
Member
Just let me buy the skin I want for $8
Ricerocket
Member
The anniversary event went overboard on the limited time event pattern with amount of things to collect. No surprise there that it is showing some really bad outlook on the game and duplicates start to become more and more of a problem as people have more items over time.
Have you seen how well it's still selling? In the weekly UK charts, it usually hangs around the Top 10.
clockworkinyou
Banned
Announcement of an acknowledgement.
This feels like the teaser of a trailer release for a movie.
This feels like the teaser of a trailer release for a movie.
So true.
Saucycarpdog
Member
Or in this events case 3000 gold per skin.
Come on dude, it's not that hard to admit you were wrong if even Blizzard are looking to make changes.
Dupes aren't going anywhere because removing them would severely undercut the money they make off people buying lootboxes
Spirit of Jazz
Banned
Nothing says a company cares about their fanbase like telling them they're not going to change anything and are going to move all the forum complaints into one thread so there's less visibility.
BassForever
Member
Someone needs to take that wwe "fuck you we got yo money" gif and put this guys face on it