Good. Fuck loot boxes.
I guess im lucky since to me the whole concept of loot boxes just instantly makes me not want to spend any money.
I got a bunch of cars in rocket league and I purchased a few skins in LOL back in the day. I would have never spent a cent on microtransactions in either of these games if my only option to get those items was through loot boxes.
Yeah in general that would be a better way of doing it. However the companies doing loot boxes would likely make less money as the semi-legal addictiveness of the gambling aspect I'm sure made them a boatload of money from the "whales" etc.
Sure. But if your game is fun and people enjoy it you will still make a lot of money.
Legue of Legends not only became one of the biggest multiplayer games ever, it also made a lot of money without loot boxes (haven't played in years so I don't know how it's now. But back then you could buy any character or skin you wanted directly )
And you can still have whales. If Overwatch let player just buy the skins they want I have no doubt there would be people spending hundreds of bucks getting all (or most) of them.
I hope you guys realise that they will figure out another way now to fuck us even harder.
Member that online pass ?
I'd rather get online passes back.
If I didn't want to spend $60 on a new copy I could just wait a few months and get Battlefront 2 for $30 on some sale.
With how it is now , neither time nor sales will change the fact that the progression system is based entirely on loot boxes