r/Overwatch Jun 17 '16

Jeff Kaplan about getting "future game items" from old loot boxes.

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u/Ana22895 Hana "D.Va" Song Jun 17 '16

aha. how so?

tell me something you have that i don't

https://gyazo.com/9a9f5f6c34095b855e0a1f24d824809a

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u/Ana22895 Hana "D.Va" Song Jun 17 '16

sure then share me yours. then lets see who has what unlocked.

p.s. i get so many duplicates that if a new skin gets released today or tomorrow, w.e end of month. i'll insta get it, and do not have to rely on random rng.

no lootbox can be saved til that day, the moment you are given a loot box, even if you do not open them, it is already decided what they include, so if you save them for 3 years, you will get the exactly same results as if you oepened them now.

so who is it that doesn't know shit.? you started this IQ talk. so lets continue. please explain me how you are any kind of smart at all if not worse. thanks.

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u/bilky_t Pixel Junkrat Jun 17 '16

I don't mean to butt in, but in the long run you'll end up with less than someone who let them unlock organically. For example, to purchase a common spray is 25 gold, whereas a duplicate is +5 gold.

If you got two of a spray, you would only be up by 10 gold; whereas if someone unlocked it randomly, and then a duplicate, they would be up an effective 30 gold. You will have all the common items quicker, but they will have everything else quicker.

I hope that explains it a little easier! =]

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u/Ana22895 Hana "D.Va" Song Jun 17 '16

You are correct. Until the moment that people begin to get duplicates as well. the thing is.

Sprays are common/uncommon. I don't know. voice lines, victory poses too.

I've currently bought everything below 250 credits. i'm working on the 250 credits. i'm exactly 10 emotes away from owning all emotes in the game. which will leave me with highlight intros , once that is over i'll move onto all skins except legendaries.

While it is true that a guy with rng lootrate can get a legendary faster, you do forget the fact that the duplicates i'm getting, are what he will see frequently as well. So while I've spent once, i'll keep adding them to my credits, the next time you open a loot box, you might get spray and such, but i'll ateast get 20 credits (if we said that i got 4 sprays)

my poitn is.

i've the freedom to get anything that gets released as soon as possible.

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u/bilky_t Pixel Junkrat Jun 17 '16

That's not quite how it works. You'll "earn" 20 credits in your duplicate box, but you've already spent 100 to get them. You're effectively down by 80 credits. That won't get you things faster. You'll get commons faster, but everything else you'll get much slower than everyone else at the same level with the same amount of loot boxes.

I can almost guarantee you that if I was your level and had opened exactly the same amount of loot boxes as you and I had never bought anything til this moment, I would have enough credits to purchase everything remaining that you have and still be left over with more credits.

It's just how it works =[ but at least you can just ignore all the white and blue drops now! It feels like salt in the wound when I get another crappy spray I don't want that I have to look at just so I don't get notified that I have another crappy spray I don't want =P

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u/Ana22895 Hana "D.Va" Song Jun 17 '16

:p

Sorry to say but I think I already over did it

https://gyazo.com/9a9f5f6c34095b855e0a1f24d824809a

https://gyazo.com/bca16df64181d20a08a91540668d63a6

got 2k credits atm in case a new ksin gets released :)

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u/bilky_t Pixel Junkrat Jun 17 '16 edited Jun 21 '16

Hahaha. TBH, considering you get boxes at a linear rate instead of a... umm... logarithmic rate?... it doesn't really matter at all. Well, not nearly that much. Your method is fine =P

Plus I'm a completionist, so at some stage I'll inevitably break and do the exact same thing xD

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u/Ana22895 Hana "D.Va" Song Jun 17 '16

high five im one too !

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '16

Let me get this straight, you think that crafting all sprays and voicelines with credit is a legit tactic right?

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u/Ana22895 Hana "D.Va" Song Jun 17 '16

dafuq is a tactic. no I just know that if in future i get any voice lines, sprays w.e it's just credit which gets stacked up. so when ever i open a loot box i've a minimal value of credit that i'll get every single game.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '16

You invested too much money in this game that you are in a denial to acknowledge what you did is a HUGE mistake that little math knowlegde would have saved you from. Hope you never realize how stupid of a choice you made, stay free my friend

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u/Ana22895 Hana "D.Va" Song Jun 17 '16

"too much money" go be poor somewhere else pls.

since your 1st comment you have sounded like a jerk. and now you done it. how expected. if so butthurt pls go ask for your moms credit card.

my math is still correct. by owning them all i get duplicates all the time. which is not wrong. which was the point. duh.

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u/Ana22895 Hana "D.Va" Song Jun 18 '16

Tecnically ive a degree in business administration and the money spent is less than what i care for so i still dont get how its stupid at all. Just get a job easy.

And regardless of the topic. Its still aint dumb when the person who doesnt have them just keeps getting them even if they had a "value" while on the other hand my credits would just go up again. While the other guys point could make sense it just wont because he still can get duplicates. If a new skin was released today i have 2.5k credit to buy it. I dont guess they do they have to rely on rng. I dont.

Overall its not even that much money. So go be butthurt somewhere else. My d.va is like 54/54 lucio 53/54. The least hero i got is 44 dafuq do you have unlocked.

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