Shadow of War to lose Microtransactions

[Mikejames]

I feel like the loot box system was one of those things that was strong-armed in by publishers rather then the dev's initial vision for the project. It's still a shame that it was incorporated in the first place and had the pacing of some of the plot progression built around it, but I am glad that it's being acknowledged rather than swept under the rug indefinitely.

 

[Jadak]

Whatever, they were never even relevant to the gameplay, just a shortcut.

 

[Avnger]

Whatever, they were never even relevant to the gameplay, just a shortcut.

Except they are relevant to the gameplay because the gameplay was very obviously shaped towards encouraging their use. It's naive to think games like this and Battlefront 2 were designed and created with lootboxes just added on top like a cherry.

I feel like the loot box system was one of those things that was strong-armed in by publishers rather then the dev's initial vision for the project.

At the end of the day, the devs still consented to and participated in purposely nuteuring the gameplay to bake these lootboxes into the core of the final product. They deserve blame for making that choice.

 

[Maximum Bert]

They have likely milked just about all the money they could get from micro transactions and so now are capitalising on the wave of negativity about lootboxes (if your not Overwatch) by highlighting they are getting rid of them hoping to entice those who were put off by them to purchase.

They should never have been in there in the first place it was not a mistake it was a deliberate and scummy business decision and so I echo a previous post in saying to little to late.

Also Warner Bros are terrible for microtransactions and absolute awful business practices that rival EA, Activision and Ubisoft.

 

[Secondhand Revenant]

They honestly mattered fairly little. I guess if you wanna be that guy with all legendary orcs or something it's probably absurdly time consuming otherwise but that's far from needed or really *that* useful.

There were also boxes purchasable for in game currency and I got so much of that that I couldn't even use for much aside from orcs anymore that I got so many of the cheap normal boxes I had more orcs than I could ever want. Not legendary but I had so many I stopped because getting rid of all of the ones I didn't want seemed like a chore