Loot Boxes · 4:56pm Dec 3rd, 2017
I think they should be banned. In single player, you should have to go out and adventure to get that magical sword. Not cough up 5 bucks for a box. Back in my day, I had to fight a mighty dragon to get that mighty magical sword.
Ranking up by getting kills and winning matches with your team in multiplayer it how is should be. Ranking up gives you unlocks. Plus, random item drops can happen, like in Team Fortress 2. Sure, with in game money, fake money, you can buy the weapons you want. To make sure starting players don't flat out suck, the default weapons are pretty good. You can get kills with them.
The grinding should not be insane. Good weapons should be unlocked early on. Even high ranking weapons should have drawbacks. For example, most high rate firing weapons has a large amount of recall, and generally suck outside of close quarters. Certain weapons should have higher damage, but slower fire rate. Some high rate firing guns are good in long distance combat, but their drawback is they have very poor aim when fired by the hip. Like a minigun needs to spin for about two seconds to fire. That's very bad outside of defence of battle if you are on the front line, by the time you got the gun going, you're already dead. The weapon is great for defence, but not a front line weapon.
As with melee weapons. Big swords hit hard, but are slower. Small swords take less damage, but are faster. Some weapons are a fine balanced between the two, like a longsword.
A warhammer should be most hard hitting melee weapon, but also the slowest. A dagger should be the fasted, but it lacks range and it's attack is quite poor against armoured foes.
Also on different game modes, all weapons should be unlocked for those who to be want to be strong from the start.
I hate and like them for different reasons.
I hate them for the extravagant prices and amount of money I have to waste and spend buying them but I like them for if they are items, weapons or accessories that are really useful and helpful for a beginner who is starting a new game and has never played the series or franchise before.
Personally think Mass Effect 3's multiplayer did it the right way. Only usable for a (mostly) optional part of the game, and you can earn any and all things they unlock in-game by just playing.
Now if you'all will excuse me, I need to go cry and scrub myself in the shower for having given Mass Effect 3 a compliment.
I feel unclean~!
I say The whole world must learn of your peaceful brilliant words! By force!!
They shouldn't be banned, because governments should not dictate what goes into a work of art such as games or movies aside from very certain things. Fuck lootboxes, though,
Two days late but oh well: Just getting things and being able to purchase stuff takes away the feeling of having EARNED something. I used to play Planetside 2 a lot and whenever I earned up the points to buy something special for my gun(s) or equipment, I earned it, through lots and lots of killing. I had to kill some 300+ bastards and bitches to get that part, by god I earned it!
Giving things away or allowing you to pay to get it just takes that away, even if in the long run it does not really matter.Having earned that gun/part/accessory through blood and toil, hours of vicious combat and countless corpse piles gives a real sense of accomplishment no matter how small. A well earned reward matters more than a handout, a hard earned one you had to really fight, butcher, hack and slash to earn even more so. If everything becomes too easy or downright free... Who cares?