Originally Posted by
Psychotic
There are even worse predatory practises looming on the horizon. I know Activision-Blizzard are the darlings of a lot of people here for games like Overwatch (which also has loot crates), but they are probably worse than EA at this point. They filed a recent patent for a game mechanic that works like this: The game notices you like using, say, sniper rifles, and it wants you to buy its premium expensive sniper rifle for real money. So it matches you up with players who not only have that sniper rifle, but are also of a much higher skill level of you. When that high skill player is done stomping you with their sweet gear, something along the lines of "xXSniperDude420Xx beat you using this super sweet mega sniper rifle. Press X to buy for $10" pops up at the end of the match. Setting people up to fail and have a miserable time with a game they already paid a significant amount of money for is just repugnant, but this and practices like it will become more and more commonplace.
Hmm hadn't heard about that. Is that for like destiny 2?
Personally I have no issue with cosmetic loot boxes, I argued this in discord the past two days xD Gameplay lootboxes are what is trout to me. Paying money to look pretty is whatever, it doesn't affect gameplay. Paying money to get a better weapon that will murder people more easily, that's lame.
Originally Posted by
Sephex
Yeah, I'm kind of disappointed with fans giving Overwatch a pass. True, their loot boxes are for cosmetic things, but I knew they weren't going to stop there. That is pretty shady. I'm really glad I never bought into that game.
OW doesn't have any purchaseable weapons so it most likely doesn't reference OW. IT's probably destiny 2 as it's now on the Blizz launcher but it's not Blizz themselves. Still activision tho