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I was thinking hearthstone card packs as loot boxes, and they sort of popularized skinner boxes in games with the epic drops in wow
by vertline3 8y ago
I was thinking hearthstone card packs as loot boxes, and they sort of popularized skinner boxes in games with the epic drops in wow
- Crosseye_Jack 8y ago> epic drops in wow Which was a feature in games before WoW but isn't a pay to win mechanic as you can not pay for "drops". WoW for the longest time refused to have a real money gold shop as was more that people were buying in game gold from 3rd parties anyway so might as well make a safe way to do it (which isn't a direct cash for gold transaction, more that another player has to buy your game time token, but that will usually happen within 30 mins). As for hearthstone I would lay the blame more at Magic: The Gathering Online personally (though not the first), but I see you point that the game has very popular and became the "cardboard crack" that IRL Magic was (Atleast with Magic: The Gathering Online you could trade / sell your online cards with others until you piss off WotC and they nuke your account).
- vertline3 8y agoanother similar recent move was the widespread disdane mobile Diablo got at blizzcon, fun YouTube clips of that. My point about the drops is that skinner boxes are dangerous. My RA flunked out due to wow. Some small group of people really struggle with casino stuff