Ultimately, we all know about the giant shift that occurred in the gaming industry over Star Wars BF2’s loot box controversy, and many countries threatened, and henceforth, acted on their word.
In the example shown in the Belgian commission for games that are “guilty” of indulging, Overwatch is cited as an example of a lootbox abusing video game as per the document that successfully outlawed the lootbox practice.
Now, it’s a given that Overwatch lootboxes do not create a gameplay advantage, bu…
So I played a bunch of the PVE content and had a great time, earned 8 lootboxes from a few hours of playing. Got VERY lucky and two legendary skins…but NEITHER were event related, a random Rein and Hog one that I had no use for.
First I get that even getting 2 from 8 boxes is very lucky and I’m not asking for ANY changes in the droprates, simply if an event is going on the EVENT LOOTBOXES should drop EVENT ITEMS, prioritizing over the regular game items. I was furious, I mean what’s the point…
This isn’t about the rate at which you get a legendary because it’s all luck. That’s the problem, earning cosmetics shouldn’t be through luck. Before you comment “just grind it out” or “git gud” hear me out. Games like Call of Duty have that incentive where you want to unlock cool camo or that awesome gun at level 48 that makes you want to grind the game out overnight. Overwatch however, makes you “gamble” for it. When you finally level up and open that lootbox just to get voice lines and victor…
Please scroll through the comments where people ask “make skins directly purchasable” - these posst were every day non stop
I’m too tired to fish out more, if you type “lootboxes” or “battlepass” in the search prior to the date there were announced you get 10k+ posts listed, I just copy pasted the top ones.