This is why loot boxes are toxic garbage...

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  1. MagnusEffect

    MagnusEffect Administrator Staff Member Jarl SC Huscarl

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    Of special note:
    With that last figure, you LITERALLY had a better chance of being struck by lightning than actually winning that prize... and you still had to PAY for the chance to even roll the dice.

    The chances for obtaining these prizes were omitted purposefully with the goal of getting players players hooked enough to pay real money.

    This is why I don't trust ANY lootbox system. I don't mind supporting F2P games with reasonable economic models, Warframe being the best example, but Warfare had to earn that trust. I probably would not give a new IP the same pass knowing what I know now. If an entire game is built around nonexplicit lootbox practices these days, they can fuck right off.

    Do yourself a favor; and avoid these money pits like the plague. They cannot be trusted.
     
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    Hakija Chaos Pony Viking

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    The best part is this would have been completely legal in the US.
     
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    MagnusEffect Administrator Staff Member Jarl SC Huscarl

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    Yeah, it's sad. It's probably happening in some corner of the internet right now. We just don't know about it.
     
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