I still cant understand why the battle pass was added in the first place.If it will stay it needs to be improved even more.Im not saying its bad it has come a good way.Giving free credits is awesome but the battle pass lacks content in my opinion.Look at other games for example.They have a different category for free rewards and premium rewards they have more stuff in both categories and the other skins and stuff are not relied to the battle pass.A way to improve I think is return the loot boxes.I dont think Blizzard will award them by completing games.But they can add it to the battle pass.Why not do these simple changes?
It will award more skins,emotes etc. a much more reason to actually buy the battle pass.And for the free to play players the free rewards should be more.
Because it makes a hell of a lot more money than loot boxes, which were being banned in a lot of countries.
Hope that clears it up.
They want engagement and money. Pretty sure lootboxes were the only incentive to play after buying the game. Now with battle passes players will spend more money overtime then they would by buying a $60 game.
Thats why i suggested the lootboxes to be in the battle pass.
Sound suggestion.
Sadly, the problem legally is the box themselves, not the method of acquisition.
If there’s a “random” element to it, it is gambling. Doesn’t matter if it’s free, purchased or earned. EU legislatiors hate it, so best to just stay clear of them. Saves hassle in the future.
So that’s not quite true…
Yes, the EU considers “loot boxes”, whether purchasable or earnable, as similar to “gambling activities” for the following reasons:
Loot boxes’ features resemble the features usually attributed to gambling activities, i.e. , (i) engagement of stake to participate in a game to (ii) obtain winnings with monetary value, (iii) based on chance (players cannot influence the outcome).
However:
In 2020, the European Parliament acknowledged this resemblance and considered that, as gambling is not a competence of the EU (EU Member States are competent to regulate gambling activities as they see fair), loot boxes should not be subject to specific EU legislation.
All the EU actually proposed was:
Reinforcing consumer protection through existing EU legislation on consumer protection and by reinforcing parental control mechanisms, raising awareness about the risks related to loot boxes, providing further information on the content of video games, etc.
Even the strictest member states, when it comes to loot boxes, (such as Belgium, the Netherlands and Finland) have only qualified loot boxes purchasable with real money (as opposed to obtained by playing) as either illegal gambling or gambling subject to a gambling operator license.
Earnable loot boxes do not seem to incur any form of gambling restrictions by EU member states.
I think china has a legislation that mandates games to not have any sort of reoccuring ingame stuff to claim, like daily free rewards.
Several mobile games have a completely separate game version for china for that reason.
So if blizzard ever wants overwatch allowed back onto the chinese market, the lootboxes need to stay away to avoid problems.
I do miss them though. Even if ow2 had “complete x amount of games to earn a random rare skin” challenges in seasonal challenges, it would be a step into a good direction. Of course it’d need to have a similar double protection as ow1 boxea had. In a sense that there aren’t any doubles. If you already have all the rare skins, then you’d get free credits or a 1000 bp xp instead.
They could easily do the same with player icons (especially the ones that were available in ow1 times) that way peopke would still get something.
Because let’s be honest here. No one’s going to spend real money on a re colour of the default skin, they wouldn’t lose any sales with that. But new players would still feel like they’re getting more than the souvenier, spray and a nameplate from the free battlepass.
(You also necroed a thread. It’s against the TOS)
Oh sorry, I didn’t realise the thread was so old! I misread “May '23” 