Loot boxes

We need loot boxes in order to survive as a community, but you faggots are just too blind retarded to see it. Listen up, loot boxes provide equity to gaming companies which then in turn go straight to developers and partners of those companies. This entire process allows for more fully fleshed out titles from triple A companies. For example, loot crates make up around 25.7% of Activision's income and 30.2% of EA's, therefore eliminating the option to purchase loot crates would severely hinder their budget, and in turn the quality of games would suffer as well. Not to mention the aftermath of legal precedents that would preside once loot crates are banned. You need to look past all of the emotional horse shit you spout in regards to loot crates and even DLC.

>I-It's basically Gambling
Bullshit, it is the parents fault that kids under 18 are obsessively buying crates.
>T-t-they ruin the game because you have to pay more
You knowingly bought the game didn't you?
>B-but they are expensive
get a job then, fat fuck
>b-but niggers
I don't give a good god damn, fuck off back to pol

Please kill yourself today

k have fun buying those things

this.

>We need loot boxes in order to survive as a community
Stopped reading there.

OP is a disingenuous falseflagging faggot. Friendly reminder to sage when posting in low-quality flamewar threads.

I don't give a fuck about loot boxes
I have 90% of the skins in overwatch and I never spent any more than the 40 or 50$ the game cost

>. For example, loot crates make up around 25.7% of Activision's income and 30.2% of EA's, therefore eliminating the option to purchase loot crates would severely hinder their budget, and in turn the quality of games would suffer as well.

Their games are already shit so what's the point?

>We need loot boxes in order to survive as a community,
LEL US GAMERS XDDD

also
>Tells people to go to Sup Forums when using a homophobic slur
uh huh

your points were all invalid when you posted a loot box of a game that refuses to change anything except adding more crates

Who paid you to say this?

DLC is garbage. Include extras as secrets and unlockables; this is why players explored in older games.

Pay2win is garbage. Anything that adds in-game power in a multiplayer environment for cash is straight up unfair.

Pay2skin could be considered ethically sound, but is still offensive to me as a gamer.

Lootboxes are the worst of all worlds. Pay for a CHANCE at something you want. Forced marketplace interaction and gambling is not fun and not even gameplay related.
I've got a real-life example for you: My last roommate was a total MORON. He spent his entire paycheck at real casinos, and the leftover on csgo case keys; it took him well over $250 to unbox a knife, which he gave to me since he couldn't pay his rent that month.
None of this shit changed the gameplay experience in the slightest. Valve hasn't released a quality patch for GO in a long time; valve doesn't even make games anymore.

>Somebody put this much effort into a retarded shitpost

>Continuously supported games needs continuous sources of revenue
Thats all that needs to be said. Are lootboxes better or worse than paid subscriptions? I'd rather have lootboxes.
That said I do think it is gambling.

>If we give big companies more money for less content, their games will be better!

No, they will not. AAA companies exist to make money, if they can find a way of making money they will stick to it, if they think shitty cosmetic trinkets and worn out, samey games will make them money, that's what they will do.

They will not experiment, they will not branch out, I don't know what this "community" shit you're on about is, you're probably thinking of the word "gaping wallet baring target audience statistic" because they'll happily cultivate a giant low effort income source.

If you want to see better games, buy better games, buy better games from small studios who are forced to try innovative, new and niche things to even get in on the market. If you want to see E SPORTNS MERCH and EPIC LOOTBOX SEASONAL, go ahead, buy it.

>These same people crying about lootboxes would lose their shit if games were 10$ more expensive on release.
>Then pirates, with complete lack of of any type of self reflection chime in.

Overwatch's lootboxes are some of the least profitable in the industry because they give it for free a lot. So much so that Blizzard doesn't even record the revenue from it as its own heading as oppose to Activision who DOES with games like destiny 2 and cod ww2. That doesn't mean that overwatch doesn't make bank with their system though.

g00d system m8y.
Remember when you used to just buy a game and had to earn or unlock additional customization such as clothing. Now these features are just gone and in return you get to wear dirty rags.

Except *gasp* they don’t

>implying triple A companies are even making any worthwhile games

Oh yeah, because multiplayer games (the genre with loot boxes and shit) are the games people pirate. No one pirates multiplayer games you fag.

thanks jim

FPBP

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Lootcrates and cosmetics/virtual items makes me easy money. Its like placing sidebets on the goyim paying shekels.

Sup Forums is full of poorfags, they can't afford crates kek

You can pirate some multiplayer games with various lan emulation programs and modded consoles are a thing since forever.

If you played TF2 after it went free and bitch about loot boxes you need to take your wrist to the nearest razor.

Not all Microtransactions and lootboxes are created equal.
and it depends alot from the perspective you look at it.
The issue is that more and more the lootbox push harder that it start to deminish the main game.

Also the rarity of Items are pushed with out any real knowledge of how rare items are, that is terrible. some game may have the rarest item at 15% drop, others may have it at 1.5%

A more decent Loot box are the Smite seasonal boxes (at least when I was playing, dont know if they changed it now)

Even get new 7 epic skins, so you buy a box, and pray you get the skin you want, if dont, you dont get duplicates, so you only need a max 7 boxes to get every item and each time you get bigger odds of getting an item, and if you get the one you wanted before that, lucky you.

Now the rest of the lootboxes, are dessign to get you almost to no reward from duplicates, and you dont know the odds, so if you are looking for the rare drop, you are going to get stuck wasting money on an artificially crafted system made to suck infinite money out of you.
Different to the other system that just was number of times.

So even if lootboxes could be made fine with a system that push people to try no characters or weapons or rolls in a game. In reality is just made to push the max amount of cash cows from people that jump to buy 101 lootboxes for games.

You may say "just dont buy it and thats it" but then all games will become Mobile games. and maybe you want your console games to become empty phone games, but I sure prefer it doesnt.

fuck off to Sup Forums. we need lootboxes

Naziboy.

Hi Andrew