Yes!!! They should be shamed. Money hungry disgusting a*holes and they even have the skin on their face to try and spin and explain why these loot boxes are good and necessary. Ohh poor poor developers and EA. Did you only make 500 million dollars this year so far....or 900million? I feel so bad for you guys.....yet here I am who can't afford health coverage. My heart is bleeding for you EA and developers. /s

This is priceless!!!!

Can't wait to see what comes next!

Aside from battlefront they also destroyed need for speed with loot boxes.

This is awesome

Blizzard have no room to talk on this issue. They are the very reason loot boxes became popular and they should stay out of this conversation or else we can play a game of "Let's spot the hypocrisy."

A point to remember here. The actual developers - men and women sitting on the box long hours actually building these games - are not the ones responsible for the policies and MT inclusion. They are just following orders made by business development and product design teams. Meaning: if your boss tells you to jump, you ask how high or start looking for a new job. People should really think about that while they are slinging death threats to actual developers with no thought. What a f***ed up time we live in.

Not wanting to start a flame war with console users, but this did remind me of the "this is how you trade games on playstation" video

Forgetting cod is their cash cow. home of timed content, reskinned yearly games, overpriced dlc, and loot crates that held back op weapons per dlc.
Sounds classy. :/

Good, get it all out now. Before the game launches and they forget about all of this because they are swimming in simoleans.

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I won't be buying this game. So I'm in the clear of the madness.

Skin loot boxes are okay, pay2win not.

Well that escalated quickly

Hopefully this will start a snowball effect, and push publishers away from fleecing the gamers who already spend a good amount of money on their products. I really hope EA suffer financially from this; they deserve to.

The irony of Blizzard having the gall to call them out on this garbage. F**k off Blizzard.

Starcraft 2 is full of micro transactions

Who cares. I played a couple hours of it with ea access. Not very good anyway.

Without trying to be a fanboy dick, please remember that this is the definition of Games as a Service, the same ideal for gaming that Microsoft is focusing on. If you support Microsoft, just be prepared for things like this in the future.

Hahahaha, Blizzard? Wow. They have loot-boxes in Overwatch, which is a PAID GAME. What a bunch of c**ts.

Rich, coming from Activision-Blizzard.

Thanks for all the studios and the media who are supporting the players against the decease of loot boxes, micro transactions and pay walls.

People really need to stop buying this type of garbage. Time to teach some of these developers/publishers a brutal lesson.

Loot crates belongs to free to play. Other than that it's a disaster to video games. Imagine loot crates in movies. Oh god lol

Guerilla Games with Killzone does it right..but they don't get the love..

Please just get rid of loot crates forever. I hate what the gaming industrie is turning into.

League of legends pay to play style nothing wrong with it

Blizzard need to sort their hit detection out. If people were in a blizzard glass house, you'd be able to hit the person inside the house, without breaking the glass.

Mockery from Activision-Blizzard over the anti-consumer policies of other publishers? HA. That's rich.