Why did Blizzard go from 15 loot boxes a week down to 3 loot boxes a week? It seems very petty.
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“tHe gAmE waSnT rEwaRDinG eNouG”
Well, too bad it only lasted for a single season (while MR was blowing up) and they went to being greedy again.
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Alternatively you can earn the Patch Wolverine skin in Mahvel right now after they already gave us two other free skins this season. All of these events also giving you freemium currency to buy the skin you ACTUALLY want. Check it out!
I mean, ahem, they need to make money somehow! How will they keep the lights on? Things are so bad we still cannot change our forum icons, ironically something you were forced to pay for before Blizzard was generous enough to give us lootboxes. You should be thankful.
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I play Marvel Rivals, but their quality level with skins is nothing compared to Overwatch.
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Because they are stupid and have no idea how important it is that they increase the in game rewards
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That is perhaps true; however, I at least get to see the skin. That’s pretty much the best part.
It was a temporary event type thing. Expect Blizzard to use boxes as incentives for various things like Twitch drops to prop up the viewer count, special event prizes, etc.
Speaking of which, I think it’s worth looking into bringing back that lootbox that we used to get for every first flex queue in a 24 hour cycle. This would do wonders for player morale, engagement and queue times.
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It seriously would. I have given up entirely on queueing all roles. But if I got a lootbox for it, I would definitely pull up the straps on my boot and enjoy the unique thrill of being an entire lobby’s prison currency. The things I do for cosmetics I will never use…
Imagine if ranked and unranked flex queue each separately rewarded a lootbox. I wonder if that would override my moratorium on queueing tank/flex in ranked.
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We kinda knew this was going to happen, though.
After much research, discussion, experimentation, and thought:
Money.
Just kidding, it took none of the above to know it’s all about money.
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That was a temp event. It’s not going to be in every season.
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It’s greedy that the game, all PvP modes, maps, and heroes are free? Stadium is a massive (free) W for us. Skins are nothing by comparison.
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Why do you think they’re free? So they can make less money? You really think they are giving us anything free?
I’d rather pay for OW1 and have it back.
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From a business stand point it’s about making money. The more, the better. Even though three is kind of low, and 5 probably would have been thebsweet spot as you can get 1 legendary a month.
However I’ve never really cared for cosmetic items so it doesn’t matter to me. Can slow farm credits for free if I truly wanted sonething (And have through the seasons) without paying a cent.
Because that was always the plan. Like, I don’t read the dev posts much either, but I even I read the “this season is gonne be more generous”. The real question you should be asking is: “Why aren’t they rewarding a box for each progression level?”.
I know you’re memeing (at least I hope so), but it’s something that was in the game and then they took it out. Sure, they have shop skins in them now, but it’s a lot of 2+ year-old ones and the big collab skins aren’t in them anyway.
the 15 lootboxes were a special event to celebrate them being back.
It sucks but at least we got golden boxes in BP and some loots in mini events.
They’re free because they make enough money off completely optional, non-gameplay-affecting cosmetics. Greedy would be paywalling actual gameplay or releasing a “new” game every year for full price like many franchises, which then also charge for microtransactions.
You can’t have this and regular content updates almost 10 years later. Software sales only go so far. I’d rather let whales pay for all my gameplay.
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