Loot Boxes

[A Black Falcon]

That Dark Souls video there is pretty well done, lots of effort there just for a video... amusing video. :) (The only thing that video's missing is a fancy loot-box-opening animation. Otherwise it gets it just right!)

As for EA, it does sound like Battlefront II goes too far, but it's always interesting to see what gets attention. I mean, there have been so many games with loot boxes this year, and others in the past few years. Why now does a reaction against that suddenly explode in public like this? Is it just because everything has loot boxes now so something was going to get this reaction, and EA are the unlucky losers because that game is too prominent and puts too much of the game behind a loot-box system? If so that's a very fair reaction, but still, even if it is "only" cosmetic, games from previous years like Overwatch definitely do not deserve any kind of a pass here.

If this leads to a reduction in loot boxes in games that'd be fantastic, though. If we assume that the days of games actually shipping as a whole product you pay for once are sadly done, microtransactions are annoying and sometimes exploitative, but at least here you can get the thing you want, instead of having to buy random chances at maybe getting it and maybe not!