Board Thread:Weekly discussions/@comment-18464102-20180706151054/@comment-24275721-20180710064933

Brainulator9 wrote: TheGollddMAN wrote: People who want PvZ 3 need to realise that lootboxes in some form WILL be part of the game. EVERY game on the mobile industry from AAA publishers are like that nowadays. Any game you pick up from EA, Activision, Ubisoft, Gameloft (my god Gameloft; fuck that company to hell and beyond), or any other small titles about 80% of the times WILL have lootboxes. Even PvZ 2 got one with pinatas. Packs in Heroes are essentially lootboxes in card format. Only a few premium titles like The Room series, Monument Valley and others come to mind that doesn't have lootboxes at all in them.

PLUS, with the other system of getting character shards (or blueprints in case of racing games), filling up a bar, and then being able to unlock or upgrade it further has become a norm in the mobile industry as of 2016. So with that in mind, don't be surprised when your precious PvZ 3 requires to you to get 20 seed packets for your Wall-nut to unlock (and even more for upgrading now that the concept of upgrades has been introduced). Let's hope we can play it where lootboxes aren't gambling. Lootboxes are by definition and by design a form of gambling. It's a box with loot that doesn't tell you what it will give you. There is no form of lootboxes in any game currently that doesn't include randomisation. The system is introduced to be random, you will never know what you are gonna get thanks to the chance system which means you are gambling your currency for stuff that is not definitive. It's a slot machine that doesn't look like one but is one.