What's on your mind?
04-26-2018, 07:04 PM
I encountered the "loot box" system in Paladins, which is basically Overwatch Lite. The Free version, if you will.
You want a new skin for a character? It's in this lootcrate! ...along with 129 other things.
Oh, you want this cool emote? It's in this lootcrate with 9 other items! $5 per box, go ahead and try!
You want this emote? All you have to do is do these 4 quests that require to play basically all day! Oh yeah, and once you've done those quests, you have to buy the key to fully unlock the emote. The key is locked though until you buy a box.
Buy the box to unlock the key.
That's not even a joke, Paladins really did that. Had a special "Event" to unlock stuff, but you can only get the stuff if you pay for the thing to unlock the thing you have to pay for for the "free" emote.
Can we just stop with the microtransactions?
You want a new skin for a character? It's in this lootcrate! ...along with 129 other things.
Oh, you want this cool emote? It's in this lootcrate with 9 other items! $5 per box, go ahead and try!
You want this emote? All you have to do is do these 4 quests that require to play basically all day! Oh yeah, and once you've done those quests, you have to buy the key to fully unlock the emote. The key is locked though until you buy a box.
Buy the box to unlock the key.
That's not even a joke, Paladins really did that. Had a special "Event" to unlock stuff, but you can only get the stuff if you pay for the thing to unlock the thing you have to pay for for the "free" emote.
Can we just stop with the microtransactions?