A rant. Greedy lootboxes, and a better way to do user reviews.

[vivster]

Azzanation said:

vivster said:

Loot boxes aren't done right unless you can directly buy the stuff that's in it. Hiding stuff behind gambling is a terrible thing to do. It preys on vulnerable people and makes people who just want a specific thing overpay massively. Loot boxes are far worse than traditional micro transactions. Remember how we hated those? Back in the long long ago 2015.

Pay to win is a much worse feature. Many games offering loot crates dont affect or benefit players like buying a weapon that no one else can get thats best in class. I played alot of OverWatch, Gears 4 and Halo 5 and all they offer is cosmetics. Nothing you need to spend your money on unless you are a fan and just want to collect everything.

Even if you are a fan it's not ethically justifiable to be massively overcharged. I've opened hundreds of lootboxes in RL and I'm not even close to have everything I wanted. And they're making new boxes constantly. Making the most popular things extremely rare develops an unhealthy side market where people pay 20 bucks or more for single items. People laughed about horse armor, now imagine the horse armor being 100 bucks. That's where we are today.

It's getting worse and worse with loot boxes and developers will continue to carve more and more content out of the game to hide behide gambling.

"It's just cosmetics" isn't an argument. Cosmetics in onine games are a core part of the game. Cosmetics used to be free, you know, until companies found a way to exploit people. All lootboxes do is massively increasing the price of micro transactions. If they had just increased the price of them everyone would've revolted but making them even more expensive and preying on weak individuals with addictive personalities is somehow a good thing?