MagicWithEarvin
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Man, Randy Pitchford must be licking his chops at the thought of loot boxes in Borderlands 3 right about now. This loot box craze for upcoming games is gettin' crazy.
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I want to be angry about AC: Origins loot boxes before knowing if they're bad
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CEJames
Member
1st post nails it.
Is this like the Helix stuff that was in Syndicate? Iirc, that was never in the base game but in the menu and most of that stuff was completely useless.
Edit: Looking at it again, it looks like its just in game currency so its a non issue. But they may put MT's on them since loot boxes are so popular and make so much money so its definitely something to keep an eye out for.
Edit: Looking at it again, it looks like its just in game currency so its a non issue. But they may put MT's on them since loot boxes are so popular and make so much money so its definitely something to keep an eye out for.
Iced_Eagle
Member
WTF? Incredibly misleading title if you are purely speculating that they may charge for them. I wish mods would change the title, because nothing points to them charging money for loot crates. There are zero problems with random crates in games. That's just... gameplay. Origins has more RPG elements and more crafting, so the crates are just a way for you to use the money you earn to roll new stats on items or get more powerful gear. Absolutely nothing controversial about that. I haven't played AC since AC4 so maybe I'm missing something in newer games?
Generally, if there are real-money loot crates, they are given away in the Digital Deluxe or "Ultimate" versions, and there are no mentions of crates at all in the Gold edition of AC:O, so this seems like bullshit.
I kinda addressed this with the comparison to SM64. They've had dyes in all of them up since 2 up until the most recently released Syndicate. Some were available in-game, some cost extra. No problem throwing a few extra bucks towards the devs for something that is purely cosmetic as long as I get to choose which cosmetic it is.
Lord of Castamere
Member
*Shrug* Buying Shadow of War and this. Micros have been in AC for awhile. Won't buy em.
Even though I can't wait for the next Borderlands whenever it releases, I won't be surprised if there's loot boxes.
Magnetic_North
Member
Man Im saving so much money!
Forza , Shadow of war now AC Origins
Im now not buying any of these because I dont want to support this kind of shit in my games
Last time I was in favour of loot boxes was in Overwatch but the odds now are rubbish on getting anything good so Ive stopped with that as well
Oh well still getting Mario Odyssey!
Forza , Shadow of war now AC Origins
Im now not buying any of these because I dont want to support this kind of shit in my games
Last time I was in favour of loot boxes was in Overwatch but the odds now are rubbish on getting anything good so Ive stopped with that as well
Oh well still getting Mario Odyssey!
TerryLee81
Member
What if there's an Orc in it?
It is only ONE box sold buy roaming merchant that you need to find first. It is still stupid thing and I don't like randomization. Also there is one more thing that you should know about Origins and merchants. Merchant inventory is randomly generated every time you leave area (at least that is how I understood it). So you could say that every merchant is loot box.
Not surprising in the slightest considering there were so many currencies across many titles, but everything was achievable at a steady pace in game. Shortcuts arent new, so hopefully this doesnt change anything. Unity was the greatest offender and it felt like a slight grind but it was alright.
Crossing Eden
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Unity had heists which gave out so much money in incredibly short amounts of time. Like you could earn 60K in five minutes.
brickarts295
Member
Whoever comes up with Battle Royale starring cartoon like CG characters with lootboxes will win this gen.
So Fortnite Battle Royal is almost there.
This. There's no confirmation of loot boxes yet, so this is a dumb thread.
brickarts295
Member
Yep XD
CouchMaster
Member
Is it legendary?
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
That would be quite the twist
texhnolyze
Banned
Are all the mods asleep or are we going to let this misleading thread as is?
People who didn't want to buy AC Origins day 1 or at all won't buy it no matter what, those who did want to buy they will buy it no matter what so it really doesn't matter what thread title is.
eXistor
Member
It cheapens every game and taints the overall design. It's a sad state we're in, but the masses don't seem to have any problems with them being in games (neither do reviewers apparently) so they're here to stay. Not only that; expect them to be in more and more games.
Okay admittedly I didn't know this, but the point still stands: it still cheapens the game by having meaningless junk arbitrarily locked behind any currency, real of fake.
Okay admittedly I didn't know this, but the point still stands: it still cheapens the game by having meaningless junk arbitrarily locked behind any currency, real of fake.
FriskyrumX
Banned
Because people want to meet their outrage quota for the day.
Sad that no one batted an eye or complained this much with the same type of boxes in Horizon, but okay.
But since it's Ubisoft, let the hate train commence.
As people previously said some kind of MT are in AC games since AC3. And every single time there was thread about them on GAF and every single time you could ignore them in game because you could get everything you wanted by the final third of the game.
NightShift
Member
Well that's some money saved.
travisbickle
Member
You dont think people should hate Ubisoft, but youre sad people didnt hate Horizon?
No, he/she just pointed out that nobody cared about apparently same mechanic in different popular game.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Is Horizon Zero Dawn cheapened by having quite literally the exact same kind of merchant? Or other RPGs? Are the costumes cheapened by having the player buy them with in-game currency? You know, how things usually work in video games...random loot box merchants in games are not a new thing that dastardly pubs came up with this gen. It's a common game mechanic.
ROUGE_BLOCK
Member
Oh shit! Count me in!
That's what you got out of that post?
I will be spending a lot less money on new games in the coming years. Time to start looking at my backlog.
travisbickle
Member
He calls it a hate train against Ubisoft which I assume means he disagrees with the negatives towards Ubisoft. But hes sad that it didnt happen to Horizon?
Like he wanted it to happen to one game but not the other.
He should be glad it didnt happen to Horizon, and sad its happening to A Creed.
Heh
FriskyrumX
Banned
You really don't get what I meant with my post do you?
Pretty much. It's literally the same exact mechanic, and hardly anyone complained about it in Horizon if at all from what I've seen. I just find the similarities to both the mechanics pretty funny for the fact that people barely harped on it in Horizon, but now that a Ubisoft/Assassin's Creed is showed to have it, it's literally a shit storm.
The use of "Sad" was sarcasm I'm pretty sure
What I believe he is trying to say is that it's interesting how the same in-game mechanic was ignored/accepted when utilized by a popular publisher on this site, but when the same mechanic was utilized by a not-so-popular publisher on this site it is drawing a lot of negative attention.
EDIT:
Also the loot box concept is generating a lot of discussion now that wasn't back in Feb. he may be referring to that also as implying people are more attuned to adding to the controversy
CecilRousso
Member
Every game = games from AAA publishers, in the action, sports and driving genres.
So, not every game.
The odds of me spending money on cosmetic items is reasonable, as long as I know what I'll be getting upfront and the price is reasonable for what it is.
The odds of me spending money on a lottery box for an unknown item at the mercy of whatever random number generator that is put inside of it is a hard zero.
The odds of me spending money on a lottery box for an unknown item at the mercy of whatever random number generator that is put inside of it is a hard zero.
Alter_Fridge
Member
All this non stop loot box nonsense make me all like
