This Reddit thread is what everyone needs to read:
Western gamers DO NOT want lootboxes. Lootboxes have killed games before and will kill this game. You can monetize skins through alternate means. Call of Duty for example has seen an INCREASE IN PROFITS by switching away from a lootbox model to a battle pass model.
MAKING PLAYERS HAPPY BY REMOVING PREDATORY SYSTEMS WILL INCREASE YOUR PROFITS, SMILEGATE/AGS.
They don’t care bro
Gamba costumes and pheons are here to stay
They don’t care if 80% of players quit and all that’s left is bots and whales as long as the whales keep paying
Just the way all companies are
Ill still get them with ingame earnable currency.
Or make them
Drop from inferno mode valtan.
Pheons are good.
Lootboxes are unacceptable.
I wish it was that easy. You can lead a Smilegate to water but you can’t make it drink. They have their market of buyers and that’s all they’re apparently hoping for
What would be a solution to market these skins as ‘important’ and ‘exclusive’ as the rng crap makes them?
Selling for $1000 ? I doubt you would see this sold for $15
Lock them behind inferno mode. 1% drop rate
Its free
so, people want the skins for free? You could say farming the gold is essentially free
People weren’t happy with how slow classes were being released and they made it even slower. Voicing any feedback seems to have the opposite effect or just completely ignored. Why bother at this rate?
They need to realize that this game will actually die if they continue to refuse to listen to complaints.
Each wave of complaints accompany a small wave of players leaving. But if they continue the trend of not listening to any single wave, then those small waves will add up.
I’m fine with the lootboxes. Don’t like it? Don’t buy it.
Speaking as someone who personally greatly dislikes lootboxes, if you have to try to convince people to be angry about it, you’re wrong.
I’m fine with cocaine. Don’t like it? Don’t buy it.
That’s only because there are soooooooo many white knights on the forums -_-
Looool
Lootboxes are good for the economy…
LMAO no
They’ll keep doing this until the whole community disappears and no ones left in game, and then they’ll try to turn it around and do everything the players want, which they claimed they couldn’t before.
I’m a boomer, I’ve seen this happen so many times with shitty games.
We can’t do server transfers…
We can’t release classes faster…
We can’t take out the p2w skin jar…
We can’t increase honing rates…
We can’t stop the bots…
We can’t give powerpasses to anyone not passed xxxx ilvl…
We can’t release skins any faster…
It’s all bs, they won’t do it while a small percentage of people make doing what they’re doing profitable. As soon as it hits their profit margins, they will do what they claim is impossible and then they’ll want praise for it.
Loool. Every mmo is gambling. You go to bosses and the item drop chances essentially mean that it is gambling in the end. LA has just moved majority of that to honing and skin loot box instead.
For example in TBC wow, only a few select ppl can actually obtain the blades of azzinoth. You actually have more chance to obtain the legendary piece in LA than you have for wow in this scenario. Plus you can just use gold to get access to the content which means it literally costs you ZERO.
I see ppl complaining left and right about yoz jar but how in the world do you propose to change the system? Deny all you want but its the little chance of actually obtaining the legendary skin is what makes it valuable over the other epics and skins you do not want.
There is no alternative system that can actually put in place unless the skins are all unified in stats and look similar to each other which I am sure you do not want. Or do you prefer they put in a currency system instead that takes years of hard grind to buy the skin like a ferrari irl or something? Is this alternative better than the rng system? certainly not. Yeah seems like you dont want that as well do you?
Conclusion. You guys just want stuff for free and use ‘lootboxes’ as an excuse to hide your cheapness. Toughen up
At least it will justify why the game is banned in Belgium and Netherlands.