Who actually started this lootbox meme? Was it overwatch?

Who actually started this lootbox meme? Was it overwatch?

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Valve popularized it back in the day with their boxes and keys. I doubt they were the first.

>Was it overwatch?
dumbfuck

yep
popularized the fuck out of it due to the game being a success sales wise
it's multiplayer only too so other devs were like "holy shit if they can do it why cant we?"

so why is ea getting all the blame?

Low hanging fruit.

Because Battlefront 2 was built from the ground-up to be about the lootboxes and EA didn't realize that to properly exploit people with them you can't do that. It takes a more subtle touch, EA did it with the subtlety of a gang rape.

Tf2 hats. That was the beginning of the end. The Orange box was a complete game, then came items you could earn, then came the crates. Some had weapons and eventually hats.

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You must be very sheltered if you think lootboxes are somekind of 2017 phenomenon. The video posted is from 7 years ago and its probably one of the later games to catch up on lootbox phenomenon

I'd say team fortress did

Because EA was selling the game at full price AND selling lootboxes, and set the grind at such a rate that it would be nearly impossible to actually grind the content out before EA inevitably pulls the plug on it, and it was pay to win (of the pay to skip grind variety).
EA drew attention to this issue from normies, and now they're latching on to the gambling aspect of it to try to stop it.

Banning loot boxes will solve nothing, because it's pay to win garbage that's the cancer killing online games, not the fact that they tacked gambling onto it.

IT WAS ME.

Magic the Gathering. Literally built on the concept.

because they made SWBF2 a pure cashgra

Not surprised how fucking stupid this board is.

Lootboxes are basically the same thing as gachapon, which has been going on in the Asian market for years (see: Maplestory). It's introduction to the West is not new (TF2), but now that it's becoming a P2W aspect more than before (Star Wars), people are starting to oppose them.

The asian games with Gachas and other Mobages are very old, and most likely the original source.
Mobile games made way to microtransactions, then TF2 and Hearthstone made it popular on western games.

Hey retard, you meant to say "its", not "it's"

When did World of Warcraft come out with the ability to buy mounts for real money?

Yeah, apologies, I'm from America.

Ah fuck, i forgot all about Gachapons.

Yeah Maplestory came out in 2003, and I wouldn't be surprised if the gachapon was already part of the game at that point. I don't know much about Maplestory though so I couldn't say.

Either way, people bitching about SWBF2 are retarded. Just don't buy shit. Don't buy the game or if you do just don't buy the shit they want you to, you inbred mongoloids.

Maplestory

Fifa

TF2, exacerbated by CS:GO. This has been around quite awhile.