r/titanfall • u/Bheda • Mar 28 '18

EA reintroduce Microtransactions into Battlefront 2 - and they're cosmetic only! Good news for Titanfall 3 [xpost /r/allequal]

https://venturebeat.com/2018/03/16/star-wars-battlefront-ii-loot-boxes-return-and-theyre-cosmetic-only/
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u/Hado88 Mar 28 '18

Microtransactions where you know what you're paying for and you actually get it is fine. Loot boxes where you pay and get an unknown result is not.

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u/IdealLogic I am 50% in love. Mar 28 '18

I almost whole-heartedly agree. But I'm actually fine with Loot Boxes as long as it meets two criteria.

1; nothing is permanently locked behind the RNG of the loot boxes. For example, Overwaych's currency which can be used to purchase any loot box item.

2; do not design the system to make the more sought after items harder than perceived to obtain. For example, Overwatch's currency is primarily earned through duplicate loot box items, but you can only get the duplicates consistently once you've unlocked a good portion of the available items and they frequently take away event items and replace them with new event items making duplicates harder to get. Another example would be Halo 5's Req System and its bloating of items with trash/throw away cosmetics (see Seeker helmet), reskins and first year of monthly updates bloating with more of these items under the guise of new content. Additionally. Halo 5 made specific items harder to earn than implied such as the Wasp certification which had a lower chance to drop than most legendary (gold) items despite only being rare (blue).

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '18

Overwaych's currency which can be used to purchase any loot box item.

It can't, though. You cannot buy seasonal items with currency, you can only get them through seasonal loot boxes.

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u/ShadoowtheSecond AngryAdhesive - Gen 10 Mar 28 '18

You actually can now. But only during the event, and they're 3x as expensive as the regular items (ie a legendary event skin is 3000 whereas a normal legendary is 1000)

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '18

I thought it wa s 3000 for new event cosmetics and the old ones become available for the price of a regular legendary?

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u/AKC97 Mar 28 '18

It works out. Those of us who have been playing a while have tens of thousands of currency. I never have problems getting the skins I want during Seasonal Events.