My friend has a small 5000 saved loot boxes (he opens 1 every 1000) and I was wondering, should we be worried when he logs onto Overwatch for the first time with OW2?
I’m honestly a bit curious, and also don’t want him to crash the servers or for the devs to somehow think he was cheating or something. (Or for it to break his game)
But I’m curious, would this be an issue? Or should having so many saved lootboxes not be an issue?
(Ps he hit 5000 last week so the number is not an exaggeration or anything.)
As far as I’m aware what’s in the lootbox is predetermined when you get it so I don’t see it as being an issue. Even if it would cause some kind of server load though there are tons of people with thousands of loot boxes, I don’t think it’ll be an issue.
I would not worry about it. Remember that when you receive a Loot Box, the contents are already determined when you receive the loot box and not when it is opened. The opening is more or less a fanfare animation, so you can enjoy the surprise of what you get. I don’t have the details of what it will look like for the automatic opening, but we are more than aware some of you have been stockpiling through the years and will be ready for it.
the boxes aren’t actually “opened” when you click the button. The game already knows what you have once you get the box (this is why you cannot open them later to get new stuff and you won’t get dupes of items you already have until you’ve filled out that rarity) it just reveals it to you and adds it to your selectable items.
Your friend is just gonna have a LOT of “NEW” labels in their hero gallery… . if the gallery works the same that is.
It’s not any “extra” data going back and forth.
… aaand I got preempted by someone with far more authority to talk… listen to the blue text.
That magic disappeared before the first event dropped and blizzard had to swoop in and let people know that saving their lootboxes prior to the event will not help.
Disco is correct. For context, here is the exact message from the Community Team way back in 2016.
Now that we’ve revealed our upcoming hero, Ana, we know that some of you may want to try to prepare for her arrival either by stocking up on Loot Boxes or holding off on opening the ones you already have.
Before you do that, though, please remember the following: Loot Box contents are generated at the time that they earned or purchased, NOT when they are opened.
This means that any Loot Box you earn or purchase now, or at any point before Ana is released, will not have a chance to contain her cosmetic items. Only those Loot Boxes that are earned or purchased after she is live and playable on your gaming platform will be eligible for her skins, sprays, voice lines, hero emotes, etc. (This is how the system will continue to work for future content updates, too.)
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)
