The only thing that makes me stop playing an online game I enjoy is pushing P2W stuff that gives real advantages to the whales making them gods among men who don't buy the p2w stuff. It happened to several MMOs i played in the past, they started ok but introduced so many P2W items that you need to spend a lot to become competitive, when they evolve to this point I just leave.

OW has 0 P2W on their lootboxes, I have been playing  it since launch and never bought a single lootbox up until now and never will. I'm ok with the lootboxes I can earn by playing. 

False, again. Mass Effect 3 was neither a sports nor mobile game, it released 4 years before Overwatch, and it had loot boxes.

Doesn't mean you can just ignore the fact that lootboxes long predate Overwatch by claiming certain games "don't count".

You're entitled to your opinion on the price of mp only games. But by ignoring all the people who think they are worth $60 and claiming it's "anti-consumer" you're effectively taking a "I don't like it so nobody is allowed to like it" stance. You're just not part of their target consumer group.

It woulldn't be there if ppl didn't buy them, and some ppl are just genitically inclined to be addicted to stuff (ye that is a thing), once that dude buys 1 of those lootboxes he is hooked. The companies know that very well and they are counting on it to penny and dime their players, it doesn't matter if its cosmetic or not. These games also have a way to rub the damm lootboxes on your face almost constantly to try to get you to buy it. Its a summy pratice and should be purged, but sadly some game shave such a loyall following ppl defend them no matter waht. We are headed into a future where everygame will be a super simple multiplayer (wich someone will defending saying "they want it to be an e-sport" crap we hear so often) with lootboxes.  

Yes, Overwatch is a great game, but imo it made the FPS genre (not just the FPS genre, but it especially) much worse. Let me explain:

Overwatch has loot boxes that can be bought with real money. Overwatch sold a lot, and because it has a lot of fans that think it's a sacred game and refuse to consider the loot boxes a problem, publishers now think loot boxes are a-ok with consumers.

Overwatch has no campaign. Overwatch sold a lot, and because it had a lot of fans that think it's a sacred game and refuse to consider the lack of campaign a problem, publishers now think it's a-ok to don't include a campaign in a $60 game if it has a multiplayer mode. That's a more recent one, but with CoD BO4 not having a campaign, we can expect the number of FPSs with single-player content shrinking more and more from now on.

Overwatch also won tons of awards, including Game of the Year (!) on TGA 2016.

Overwatch basically made anti-consumer practices acceptable in the eyes of publishers.

it's like you never heard of Team Fortress 2 lol

That's short sighted and I hope reactionary because it's certainly not based in clear thinking. What if your brother or mother got depressed and spent thousands on loot boxes or your kid/future kids maxed out a credit card on you in the middle of a recession. If your mind set truly is that I hope ot does happen so you gain some perspective. 

Stop trying to make exceptions or claim things don't count. The OP's claim that Overwatch was the first successful game with loot boxes was categorically false, as was his claim that EA never put loot boxes into any non-sports or mobile games until after Overwatch.

People making false claims without doing any research is a bad thing, don't defend it.