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Forums - Gaming - Rocket League's next update is locking some new items behind a RNG paywall

vivster on 03 September 2016
LuckyTrouble said:
vivster said:

Unless I'm mistaken Overwatch gives you crates for free and also lets you unlock them without paying. They also only contain items that you can get for free in the game anyway which makes Overwatch's system, as scummy as it is, way less scummy than what Psyonix does.

I would have zero issues with this system if they would make a key a rare drop once in a while but this shit is just heartless.

Although you get crates for free in Overwatch, it's only on level, and you get one that spits out an entirely random set of items. Let's not forget the fact that leveling in Overwatch is incredibly slow, and with the entirely RNG nature of item gains, you may spend far too many hours getting too few ranks and seeing nothing but common crap out of every crate. The coins you get for duplicate items are maybe 10% of their full store value too, which would be okay if it was the expensive stuff you were getting duplicates of. Instead I burned through 35 ranks getting enough coins for a single legendary costume the crates couldn't be bothered to drop.

Substantially more scummy is the fact that the crates you can buy with actual money are identical to the other crates. You could spend $100 and get absolutely nothing, or spend $100 and get everything. It's a gamble through and through. Rocket League's system let's you preview the potential contents of a crate, and there are different kinds of crates so that you don't have one crate that drops 500+ items. Rocket League's system is an evolution, not a regression.

Something > nothing. QED. Psyonix suck.



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sundin13 on 03 September 2016

Not a fan of this sort of system, but it sounds like it is cosmetic only so I don't really care.



ktay95 on 03 September 2016

Well it's good to see this is were people draw the line and not pay to win
Let's be real if they charged you to just straight up buy the cosmetic items you'd still be pissed off about how expensive it would be. They aren't making extra content for free, it costs them money. On top of that they are attempting to grow the e-Sport scene and the best way to go about that is to throw more money at it.
Anyway if you don't like the system and wished you could have just bought the items you can always try buying them from players and just pay paling them the money



Baalzamon on 03 September 2016
poklane said:
ktay95 said:
That negative title though
The majority of the RL community are fucking hyped, myself included.

can't think of any other game besides CSGO which does this

Its actually pretty common in the most popular online games. Dota 2/League of Legends both have similar setups.



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Ganoncrotch on 03 September 2016

From the OP

"If the Crates and Keys system isn’t for you, then you can turn it off with a prompt the first time a Crate is dropped in-game or at any time via the Options menu. Should you decide to opt out, you will still receive random Crates when they occur, but you will not be notified, nor will they be displayed in your inventory unless you choose to turn the system back on. "

That is a pretty class system, you can turn off notifications about it so you can basically opt out of the whole system and not be annoyed that you got a ton of Crates unopened, as long as the option remains to turn off the system or being poked to buy keys in game that is fine by me.



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