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I've never seen a company squander as much goodwill as Blizzard. (lemmy.world)

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[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The loot boxes weren't predatory

Ehhh, they were basically the same thing as a slot machine. The battlepass is certainly worse, as it just encourages rampant (not so) microtransactions, but just because the current battlepass system is really predatory, doesn't mean the old loot box system wasn't predatory at all. It was just less predatory.

[–] Zomg@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Well I guess what I mean by that is that loot boxes were free to obtain AND open through leveling and weren't exclusive to forking over money.

No lootboxes at all is the ultimate goal, but I'd take OW1 lootbox style over nearly any others.