Most means majority

Paladins is so much better then Overwatch. Free and more characters by far.

It's really pretty awful.

“ How can cosmetic lootboxes affect gameplay?“

It affects gameplay in a sense that those cosmetic items should have been unlockable through playing the game to begin with. What is the reward for playing your game when you lock everything behind paywall, after the customer had already paid $60 for your game? Also, with lootbox presents, most of the time the coin/cash you earn from playing the game to unlock the lootbox for free tend to be low as evidenced by games like Battlefront 2, where you needed to grind over and over just to unlock a single costume. These kind of grinding would usually lead some people to purchase those lootboxes outright with real money. And even so, there’s still not guarantee as to what items you will get, as they are randomized hence the term lootbox.

Also, I’m not even talking about how lootboxes could affect kids and people with gambling problems as documented several times before.

"It affects gameplay in a sense that those cosmetic items should have been unlockable through playing the game to begin with"

What? They are unlockable... by playing the game(this case, overwatch)

Also, I never disagreed with bad lootbox practices. I never bought BF2 for that reason. I really am just wondering why I keep seeing absolute proposals about having NONE of it. I bought overwatch years ago and if it weren't for lootboxes, there probably wouldn't be any new skins, characters, and events still coming out

I get what you’re saying. Lootbox is needed to keep the game going. However, let’s look at games like Minecraft. Minecraft got released In 2009 and features zero lootbox, yet still continuously getting updates even in 2019 with no sign of stopping.

There are ways to make money without resorting to lootboxes. They can use DLC for example, pay once to unlock a costume You want without randomize anything to hell and back. They can introduce expansion packs, which give players more value for their money. Hell, they can even add an optional subscription model, in which the player could get special costumes or other small but no gameplay-breaking benefits.

But still, lootbox is a faster way to nickle and dime customer right?

For the record, I agree for the most part, I love Overwatch and along with Siege, is the only multiplayer FPS game that I've consistently gone back to in recent years because the gameplay is just that damn good. However that "extra" part isn't an extra part is it? it's been a part of the game ever since release. It's definitely making the best out of a bad thing but they could have easily added skins as accomplishment driven, earned through accomplishing objectives with that specific character. That's how they would have been before MTs became a thing. But no, they went the RNG lootbox direction. I'm not complaining though as I can honestly say I haven't felt compelled to spend a penny and we get free maps and characters added.

King
Why not. Overwatch is a online game. You get random unlocks while playing and get credits in game to buy whatever you want to. It really isn't serious at all in it. You just play and you're good. It's one thing when it's everything as cosmetics. But 1 Overwatch isn't full price anymore and has added alot of content for free and you didn't have to pay a cent. Also can grab easily. All the paid content in the game went towards the league, breast cancer etc. This game is one of the few that was fine. It was when others abused it, it became a issue.

Hold on, did you say they should have mtx for the costumes instead lol? Do you know how costumes work in Overwatch. You get credits and unlocks in loot boxes. Just get enough credits and buy the costumes you want lol. This way is better than it all being mtx. Wtf

Tony, that sounds logical until you realize that makes people throw games and boost. This way you have no reason to be sidetracked while playing. So you don't screw over your team.

@job because we live in an age of self entitlement and gaming in particular is rife with people who can't stand the thought of anyone else having something they don't, even if it's purely cosmetic. They lack the rationality to see how unreasonable their logic is.

@king, I paid $0.00 so far for all the extra content they've pumped out since release. Why would anyone rather pay more and do DLC/subscriptions? I don't understand your logic

@frosty, Yep. That's the vibe I get sometimes. Either that or people sticking to popular ideas(lootbox=bad in this case) and applying it across the universe as if there is zero positives or gray area for it

@tony, Random lootbox that's remedied by with the credits you get out of them which in turn can be used to unlock anything you want in the game. You can choose what you want to unlock as you go. I prefer it this way over your suggestion as I don't want to grind characters I don't use as often for their legendary skins. For the extra part, it is extra. To quote you: "and we get free maps and characters >added<". This game was released in 2016. It's 2019 and we got a 2 new characters, 2 new maps, events still being held with new skins this year