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Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...

You seem to have this idea that loot boxes are inherently anti consumer and that they are evil and equate to some horrific thing.

They are cosmetic items. Would you prefer that no cosmetic items exist? I can actually see that point of view. As it stands now though, it seems you just have an issue with the loot box formula.

You are an entitled little baby who wants everything just given to him for free. The game YOU paid for has been delivered and is being updated constantly. New maps will be made, new stuff will be added in.

You know how that is being paid for? How the game will be made better than Bluehole Studios could have ever conceived? That same system that you're bitching about now.

Would you rather the game stay as it was before the loot boxes, maybe get another 2 maps, and that's it? Or would you rather the game be constantly providing income for the developers and thus be supported for the better part of a decade? That is what loot boxes get you.

And those loot boxes don't change anything about the game, with the exception it seems to trigger your entitled ass that you deserve all this EXTRA content for free.

While i agree with most of your points, the game was shipped pretty barebones in the first place at 40 bucks, and the game isnt "constantly" being updated, its a slow process.

That and 2 things about the lootbox system that very much is anti consumer:
1) not being able to straight up buy skins with real money. You better hope you get in a box or you roll enough duplicates/currency to be able to afford it, which is strictly anti consumer and overall bullshit. Dota, TF2, CSGO, League, etc all have lootboxes, but both also allow you to straight up buy the specfic thing that you want so you dont have to literally gamble for it. If i want a specfic skin or emote, i shouldnt have to spend more than 10 bucks on a "maybe you might get it" chance with a small chance that i got "lucky" enough to roll enough currency to buy it if i dont get it in a lootbox.

2: tripling the currency cost of event only skins. This is just fucking stupid and rediculous and blizzard is the only fucking company that does this. Its pure greed because most skins in Overwatch are event only skins, so unless you have a ton of currency saved up (which even then, 3000 for an event legendary is fucking rediculous and borderline unable to do without spending any money on extra lootboxes unless youre constantly playing and getting extremely lucky free lootbox roll). If they actually released skins outside of event only ones more often then this would be a lesser point, but the games been out for a year already and theyve only released two non event skins (reinhardts eichenwalde ones).
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