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You could argue that they would not be adding this feature if there were not enough people upset about the change to begin with. Yes they brought it along the

You could argue that they would not be adding this feature if there were not enough people upset about the change to begin with. Yes they brought it along the lines of many other games (however that argument is how we got Battlefront 2's loot box disaster). But it is still a major change in how the game works post launch. Something that could very realistically piss off a lot of people. The timing of this however. - 2.0 launched about a year ago - 3 or 4 months ago they announced a shift of resources away from Heroes - Now they are adding in a feature back to the game That isn't actually showing that Heroes necessarily did anything right when it came to adding loot boxes.

ocdtrekkie 8y ago
You could argue that, but it would be a bad argument. :) People could not get cosmetics for free at all prior to HotS 2.0, so everyone got more stuff, for free, when HotS 2.0 launched. Originally, skins were solely relegated to people who forked over cash, for each and every item they wanted. The loot box mechanics in Heroes are, indeed, the most pleasant way one can possibly receive loot boxes, hands down. If you are going to do loot boxes, you should do loot boxes the way Heroes does loot boxes. But I do not want to buy loot boxes, the limited direct buy options actually limited how much I was spending on Heroes, as I want to buy items. And thankfully, they are going to reintroduce that option, while still maintaining the best loot box system ever made, which gives you delightful free loot boxes at extremely frequent intervals. So I can spend money to buy what I want, and still enjoy the free loot. And perhaps that's the model loot boxes will hopefully someday be moved to, once the paid gambling aspect is illegal: Just give players free stuff in loot boxes, and let them buy the stuff they really want.

ocdtrekkie 8y ago

You could argue that, but it would be a bad argument. :) People could not get cosmetics for free at all prior to HotS 2.0, so everyone got more stuff, for free, when HotS 2.0 launched. Originally, skins were solely relegated to people who forked over cash, for each and every item they wanted. The loot box mechanics in Heroes are, indeed, the most pleasant way one can possibly receive loot boxes, hands down. If you are going to do loot boxes, you should do loot boxes the way Heroes does loot boxes. But I do not want to buy loot boxes, the limited direct buy options actually limited how much I was spending on Heroes, as I want to buy items. And thankfully, they are going to reintroduce that option, while still maintaining the best loot box system ever made, which gives you delightful free loot boxes at extremely frequent intervals. So I can spend money to buy what I want, and still enjoy the free loot. And perhaps that's the model loot boxes will hopefully someday be moved to, once the paid gambling aspect is illegal: Just give players free stuff in loot boxes, and let them buy the stuff they really want.