shikamaru317 said:
poklane said: Anyone else following Battlefront 2's loot box drama? Because holy shit whoever at EA came up with this shit and approved it deserves a kick in the nuts. |
Yeah, it was really stupid of them to put stat affecting items into the loot boxes. If it had just been outfit items, victory poses, emotes, etc., cosmetic stuff only, most people wouldn't have a problem with the loot boxes, but as they are now the game is basically pay to win. EA better fix that stuff before release or else I'm definitely going to go with CoD WW2 this year instead since Activision has finally removed pay to win stuff this year after the last 3 CoD games had it.
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Not just that, but even things you normally get by simply leveling up like guns are locked behind loot boxes because they require crafting parts to unlock, and the only way you can get crafting parts is by opening loot boxes. Angry Joe (YouTuber) did a video on this recently, and in it a friend of him said that after about 5 and a half hours of playing he got 110 crafting parts. To give you an example on how many crafting parts a gun costs: the CR-2 costs 600 crafting parts. This means you'll have to play for about 30 hours to unlock a single gun. The way you earn credits (the currency used to buy loot boxes) is also bullshit, because your performance in matches doesn't matter. Angry Joe got just 2 kills while his buddy got 39, yet both of them got 180 credits. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne4CnyNW9O4
Also, I wouldn't be too sure about CoD WWII, and this is coming from someone who's quite the CoD fan. I'm sure there's gonna be DLC weapons like in BO3, MWR and IW because it simply brings in money, we'll just have to hope that they aren't more powerful than the guns which shipped with the game and hopefully there'll be a good way to unlock them without simply getting lucky like in MWR and IW. There was also a leak recently from someone who datamined the PC Beta, and in it is something which IMO sounds an awful lot like weapon variants.
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