Loot boxes have a lot of stigma attached to them for their exploitative nature, so why are Overwatch 2 fans so stoked to have them back?
One of the funny things about being entrenched in a game’s community for years is that you sometimes forget how it might look to someone on the outside. That happened to me this week when Blizzard announced it would be bringing loot box es back to Overwatch 2 in Season 15 after dropping the mystery cosmetic packs when the sequel launched in 2022.
It’s easy to see how someone might yearn for the days when Overwatch wasn’t such a huge money investment on top of being such a grind, and it’s a pretty damning criticism of Overwatch 2’s expensive store that some people think gambling is the preferable approach. But looking at loot boxes in an Overwatch-shaped vacuum isn’t telling the whole story, which is why people who aren’t in the payload-pushing trenches are bewildered by the excitement.
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