I know its been said, but this game DOES NOT HAVE LOOT BOXES.

[Xealix]

A loot box is something you can purchase with real money. This game does not have something like that. It does have a sesason pass. It does have a boost for people who want to unlock the harder to play suits faster. This doesn't give you a game play advantage of any kind its just quick access to suits you might suck at playing anyways. You don't need to buy either. Especially the boost. The characters themselves are very cheap to purchase with in game currency once you reach the level they unlock at.

Further addressing the confusion on loot boxes, the game does have War Chests, and these do resemble loot boxes, but you cannot purchase them with real money, and everything they unlock is also purchasable with in game currency which you really do earn very quickly. You earn War Chests by leveling up your player level. Once you hit lvl 50, every single level after that will 100% give you a War Chest. It's it only there so you can continue to unlock things when you level up.

Please stop giving the game a bad rap without looking into its systems. If you don't want the season pass, and don't like cosmetics being sold for real money, then just don't buy them. The game itself is perfectly fun without them.

Edit: Also just want to say as someone who has played the game quite a bit, most of the coolest skins imo, are ones you earn in game for free. Like Witch Doctor's Stego suit, or Zephry's Mu Cephei suit.

[MagpieOAO]

People complain about things they don't understand because they like complaining .-.

[Xealix]

Originally posted by MagpieOAO:

People complain about things they don't understand because they like complaining .-.

True, but regardless people come in here to hear what people are saying about the game, and there seems to be lots of misinformation. No one likes paid loot boxes. So I am just spreading the word that this game does not have them, even though it appears like it does.

[Pharos]

War chests are loot boxes. The fact that they are not monetized does not mean they are not loot boxes.
What the game does not have, is gambling mechanics. Which is when putting money into the game can result in a random reward, usual examples being: monetized loot boxes, monetized card booster packs or monetized gacha.

[Xealix]

Originally posted by Pharos:

War chests are loot boxes. The fact that they are not monetized does not mean they are not loot boxes.
What the game does not have, is gambling mechanics. Which is when putting money into the game can result in a random reward, usual examples being: monetized loot boxes, monetized card booster packs or monetized gacha.

Its not a loot box when all the items inside can be bought with the in game currency. If they could not be bought id agree with you, and be real. You know as well as I do that when people say loot box they are talking about something you can buy with real money. No one would be mad otherwise.

[MagpieOAO]

I don't know about that part of not being mad haha, But you're spot on regarding the main issue; You don't have to buy the lootboxes with real money to access the rewards they give.
The reward system isn't entirely random because you earn currency regularly and can buy the same things from the loot boxes. And you can't buy lootboxes.

If any one of those elements were removed, they'd have something to complain about. But it's pretty fair as is.

[Xealix]

Originally posted by MagpieOAO:

I don't know about that part of not being mad haha, But you're spot on regarding the main issue; You don't have to buy the lootboxes with real money to access the rewards they give.
The reward system isn't entirely random because you earn currency regularly and can buy the same things from the loot boxes. And you can't buy lootboxes.

If any one of those elements were removed, they'd have something to complain about. But it's pretty fair as is.

I don't see any reason to be mad about random loot other than if you have to pay for the randomness. plenty of games have a random loot system, since its not paid all I think of it as is random loot, that can also be bought fairly easily if you don't want it to be random.

[Exolden]

Yeah couldn't pay for them in EAbattlefront when it launched either...

[Zouls]

Originally posted by Pharos:

War chests are loot boxes. The fact that they are not monetized does not mean they are not loot boxes.
What the game does not have, is gambling mechanics. Which is when putting money into the game can result in a random reward, usual examples being: monetized loot boxes, monetized card booster packs or monetized gacha.

thats like saying a game has pay to win mechanics because you pay with ingame gold to become stronger, its not what it means to 99.9% of people

[Xealix]

Originally posted by Exolden:

Yeah couldn't pay for them in EAbattlefront when it launched either...

yeah but the problem with that game was that they had actual benefits to game play, you could get guns and stuff out of them. these do not have any benefit to the game play other than cosmetics.

[Baphled]

I mean... I guess it really depends on how you define loot box. There are boxes, which do contain loot.

There is a big difference between being able to pay for the boxes or not, which is a good point to make. Problematic games will have content locked behind loot boxes, and the only way to get it is by purchasing those loot boxes with real money (or investing a lot of time to earn them at a much lower rate).

At this time there doesn't seem to be a way to purchase additional boxes with real money, and there's probably not a lot of incentive to change that (Thank you EU!). More importantly it also appears that nothing specifically unlocked through war chests.

So they act as just a little bonus, and not a requirement to get certain content (skins, backgrounds, etc).

It does make it easy for people to misrepresent them though, since they're pretty well known for being associated with problematic monetization schemes. And most people don't much care for nuance.

[Puru]

I like the loot boxes in this game. I'm just getting free ♥♥♥♥ at random on top of being able to unlock said stuff naturally.

[Zouls]

Originally posted by Baphled:

I mean... I guess it really depends on how you define loot box. There are boxes, which do contain loot.

There is a big difference between being able to pay for the boxes or not, which is a good point to make. Problematic games will have content locked behind loot boxes, and the only way to get it is by purchasing those loot boxes with real money (or investing a lot of time to earn them at a much lower rate).

At this time there doesn't seem to be a way to purchase additional boxes with real money, and there's probably not a lot of incentive to change that (Thank you EU!). More importantly it also appears that nothing specifically unlocked through war chests.

So they act as just a little bonus, and not a requirement to get certain content (skins, backgrounds, etc).

It does make it easy for people to misrepresent them though, since they're pretty well known for being associated with problematic monetization schemes. And most people don't much care for nuance.

again its a copout because everybody KNOWS what a lootbox is, and a battlepass, and a battleroyale, and a moba, the only reason the reviewers are using those words are to slander and lie about the game while trying to act like they are innocent.

again its like saying a game is pay to win because you can spend the gold you earn ingame to become better, thats not what it means, never has been what it mean.

its clickbait nonsense.

[Nova]

Originally posted by Xealix:

Its not a loot box when all the items inside can be bought with the in game currency. If they could not be bought id agree with you, and be real. You know as well as I do that when people say loot box they are talking about something you can buy with real money. No one would be mad otherwise.

Originally posted by Baphled:

More importantly it also appears that nothing specifically unlocked through war chests.

The player tag customizations (emblems and backgrounds) you can get through War Chests cannot be bought using BikCoins. They're the only exception though, at least to my knowledge.

[Baphled]

Originally posted by Nova:

Originally posted by Baphled:

More importantly it also appears that nothing specifically unlocked through war chests.

The player tag customizations (emblems and backgrounds) you can get through War Chests cannot be bought using BikCoins. They're the only exception though, at least to my knowledge.

:P Yeah, I thought there was the potential for something like that, but I didn't want to start up the game to verify.

Loot boxes confirmed!

[mweaver776]

They have Warchests, which are 3 random awards. It varies from character and weapon skins, emotes, stamps and/or icons like a heart or thumbs up, decals (they are like patches or stickers) and very occasionally, a charm which is some item hanging from a chain, looks like a key chain.
I suppose technically its a loot box, but I thought loot boxes are identified as being bought with real money. Warchests can't be bought with real money (as of now anyway). Some Charms and Skins are specifically bought in the Microsoft store. However they are bought directly. And I think I've won some in warchests, don't quote me on that.