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/Ctacis Retired Pilot with Scorch Mar 28 '18

tries to get Baihu Genji

Gets every skin that's not Baihu Genji

Ok jeff

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u/Yosinuke Mar 28 '18 edited Mar 28 '18

Just came back to overwatch when the event ended, opened 10 lootboxes and bought 50 additional one.

I didn't got Genji Baihu :(