• zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    The loot boxes weren’t predatory

    Ehhh, they were basically the same thing as a slot machine. The battlepass is certainly worse, as it just encourages rampant (not so) microtransactions, but just because the current battlepass system is really predatory, doesn’t mean the old loot box system wasn’t predatory at all. It was just less predatory.

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      3 months ago

      Well I guess what I mean by that is that loot boxes were free to obtain AND open through leveling and weren’t exclusive to forking over money.

      No lootboxes at all is the ultimate goal, but I’d take OW1 lootbox style over nearly any others.

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        3 months ago

        And your got coins from the free loot boxes that you could spend on whatever you wanted. The RNG wasn’t the only option.