Since launch, people have been opening hundreds, in some desperate cases, thousands of loot boxes and got MAYBE one trophy.
The loot box system wasn’t good when other games did it 5-10 years ago, and its not good now. The only reason they exist in this game is because after a year, there’s still barely any content and nothing to actually work towards character wise. It’s severely outdated and unnecessary considering you’ll only lose veritanium trying to unlock things when you can just save and buy what you want… excluding trophies cuz fuck the predators, right?
An easy fix is to remove that upper rarity status from things they shouldn’t be attached to like $2.5k skins and outfits, biomasks, etc. Items of legendary status should be limited to trophies and the Jungle Hunter Biomask, because it was a really boneheaded and asinine decision to lock the OG Predator to preorder without making it available later. Like, honestly that’s a slap in the face to fans, especially those of us who bought deluxe for an extra $20 and basically got nothing of value. Shame on you.
Another easy fix, and I know this is gonna cause some brains to stall out… IS TO REMOVE THE LOOT BOXES. Why can’t we just purchase trophies for like 50k veritaium? Why can’t we just buy the Jungle Hunter mask? On reddit, almost every day, someone’s posting about another legendary duplicate of a weapon skin they bought themselves. It’s a meme how bad this system is. There’s people saying ‘oh boy I’ve saved up over 100k, lets get those trophies’… and nothing.
Illfonic, no one enjoys this system. No one likes loot boxes. Especially one’s with an intentionally backwards tier system like the color blue being common on one biomask but legendary on another. This is extra backwards considering the three new masks last update have all the colors unlocked… as they honestly should be for all upon purchase.
The loot box system was lambasted and demonized years ago and yet this is the only modern game I’ve played that still uses them. Don’t even try the ‘we want you to feel like you earned it’ excuse cuz look how that turned out for Battlefront 2… don’t lose any more players than you have! Remove or fix this ancient gimmick system!
Sincerely,
someone who hasn’t played in months but wants to then remembers how dumb things are and hops on something else.
EDIT: Thank you guys for actually fixing the loot boxes. It’s a shit system but you made it better regardless. Doubt my post at all influenced this decision as it was a long time coming, but thanks nonetheless!