> Plenty of roguelikes or roguelites have locked chests that can only be opened after you play for an arbitrarily long amount of time. I am pretty sure that I

> Plenty of roguelikes or roguelites have locked chests that can only be opened after you play for an arbitrarily long amount of time. I am pretty sure that I have seen no such thing in Nethack, nor would I expect to see it in Rogue - the "rogue" part of "roguelike". Lootboxing roguelikes/lites are a subset of the genre, so it's not fair to use the entire genre as a defense of this practice.