How Blizzard ruined gaming, now every game has lootboxes

[Cloudman]

vivster said:

Cloudman said:

Well, I was only playing what little devil's advocate there is for loot boxes. I think they're terrible practices that shouldn't be in games. Although I do think it's a little sad when a solid game has to be punished because of something like loot boxes.

Why shouldn't it be considered in a review? Games with loot boxes have been deliberately made worse. That sounds like something that should be considered. Loot boxes change the whole game.

A game consists of a lot more than just gameplay. And if a game wants a great score it should be great in all aspects. A high score means that all aspects should be high quality. Of course one aspect that's terrible will drag down the score.

I don't mean punishing said games via scores, but in terms of sale. While I think games selling poorly due to the use of loot boxes may be a way to get the message across to developers, on the other hand having having a good game bomb would be quite unfortunate.