its also why you will not have an item drop if its already in another box…
like the last couple of times that theyve given out a golden loot box i havent opened them…but i HAVE whatever is in them already…so it wont drop in another box
if it was during an event i could tell exactly which items were in the box…cause no matter how many lootboxes i opened they wouldnt drop…i would get dupes of legendaries i already had…but whatever was in the legendary box would not drop (which i then just purchased so i could keep the gold box…for no reason whatsoever)
I never really understood why more games don’t have a mass open button. If they are predetermined it would have been really nice for the few of us that don’t want to sit through opening so many loot boxes to just get all the results at one time. I know plenty of people who just sit there with like hundreds or dozens unopened because the time taken to open all of them is just very daunting.
Opening them is a got damn travesty. Sitting through the animation. I rather blow my brains out. I do not have a addictive personality so I perfectly understand I am as far away from targeted audience as could possibly be, but still. Who in their right mind wants to spend time opening boxes? Full of garbage they do not want 99% of the time anyways. I have 700~ or something
Even if they had to generate all the items it would be a pretty cheap operation for the computer. The game does far more calculations (thousands times more) when you load a match or a workshop.
In fact, you can probably take a windows xp computer from the 2000s and run the loot box algorithm just fine in a few seconds.