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by OberstKrueger 1462 days ago
On the flip side, they're doing away with loot boxes in Overwatch 2 and replacing it with a battlepass and straight-forward shop[1]. Plenty of opportunity to screw that up, of course, but at least it'll be easier to see than having to dive into drop rate algorithms and best guesses at such.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/16/23171133/overwatch-2-loot...

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I liked the formula of having a price and then loot boxes. This is because they had to make the lootboxes content available eventually, which it is what happened: I have all the skins I like and I haven't spent a dime for them.

Being free + bp they can lock all cosmetings behind $$$ and push even more fomo tactings to your face