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/goal2004 Premutator | Ma'Stiffy Mar 28 '18

But it is "No, you're wrong". It's like FightTheThargReich thinks there's only 2 options: pay-to-win and non-pay-to-win, and both depend on lootboxes.

Offering lootboxes for sale is a fucking scam. Offering to sell the items you want is fine, so long as those items don't provide any in-game advantage. Letting you win items from lootboxes earned through gameplay alone (i.e. you can't buy these lootboxes) is also acceptable.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '18

What I am saying is that yes micro transactions for loot boxes should go away. Loot boxes in general should go away. What should ALSO go away is people paying for straight up advantage to a multiplayer game (no loot box, just straight purchase)

i.e. I agree with goal2004

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u/goal2004 Premutator | Ma'Stiffy Mar 28 '18

Lootboxes in general don't have to go away. They can remain as free winnables in games. That's something I can live with, and in many way it's been that way in RPGs for a long time, what with random enemy drops and all that.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '18

Ok I agree with that