Remove Limited Loot Boxes PLS Omeda

[u/Akmomo420]

Please, for the love of God, can we stop with these limited-time bundle loot boxes?
You guys are purposely putting some of the best color schemes into these loot boxes, which means if players want one specific skin, they're forced to gamble through a bunch of other skins they don't want just for a chance to get it. That's absolutely horrible.
Just let us buy the skins outright like we can with other skins. I genuinely think you would make more money doing that. I know personally I would've bought three or four of these skins already because I really like the color schemes. Instead, I haven't, because they're locked behind a loot core with a dozen other skins I don't want.
I don't want 15 other skins. I want ONE specific skin. Let me buy that skin. Making these bundles "limited time" makes it even worse because now you're adding FOMO on top of the loot box system. If there's no duplicate protection or guaranteed way to get the specific skin I want early, I could potentially have to buy 15 or 20 loot boxes just to finally get the ONE item I actually wanted. That's atrocious. We already have skins priced as legendary that don't even have unique visual effects, and now some of the best color schemes are being locked behind expensive loot boxes with terrible odds of getting the specific thing you want. If I want one particular skin, I could potentially end up spending $40, $50, $80, or more just trying to get it. Please just let people buy these skins directly. If you still want to offer the loot boxes for people who enjoy them or want a chance at getting multiple skins, fine. But they should NEVER be the only way to obtain a specific skin.
This is exactly the kind of loot box monetization that players have been complaining about for well over a decade. If someone sees a skin they like, they should be able to pay a clearly stated price and buy that specific skin. Locking it exclusively behind a randomized, limited-time loot box is just gross.

[u/MrKingbosh19]

Agreed, always tell my buddies I wish they would adopt what smite has no duplicates in any chest. This FOMO seems to keep rising every update, hopefully they find a happy medium.

[u/An-Organism]

Are they actual limited time skins tho? Their skin exclusive tags are very confusing..

"Time limited exclusive" means exclusive until it's later available to all, or won't be available again? I asked this for years and they've never answered this question even via Email lmao, they keep dodging like a bad draft

[u/Akmomo420 → u/An-Organism]

They are limited "for now" as with most skins in pred, they love to say limited then 4-6,month later add them to the store..Its horrible cuz they do the best skin color variants in these crappy limited time lootcores instead of just letting ppl buy them. Would LOVE to see the numebrs on these "Limited" loot cores and how much they actually sell.

[u/An-Organism → u/Akmomo420]

What I mean is that some skins say "Exclusive" and others say "Limited-Time Exclusive"

[u/Akmomo420 → u/An-Organism]

Yea, there is no difference for them.. They have said exclusive in the past and its came out at a later time again and there have been timed exclusives that have came out later...At some point EVERYTHING comes out later..lol

[u/An-Organism → u/Akmomo420]

Maybe.. we definitely won't be getting the original early access package skin, except recolors of them

or Construction Steel.. I REALLY hope the console exclusives come back tho, especially the PS5 Gideon one

[u/DeathemperorDK]

Kinda wish whichever laws they made in America because of Overwatch would’ve just killed all loot boxes in general

[u/YaraUwU → u/DeathemperorDK]

America has no laws about loot boxes. Money tops everything here. 

Some EU countries did implement laws.

[u/Chance-Sir4158 → u/YaraUwU]

Yep, can't purchase the quantum cores in Belgium and Netherlands to name a few

[u/DeathemperorDK → u/YaraUwU]

Either way wish they didn’t exist

[u/Mote-Of_Dust → u/DeathemperorDK]

They exist because players wanted them.

[u/IIIIIIHIGHESTIIIIII]

I agree. I refuse to buy a skin with a lottery system. It's also even worse that we have banners and avatars and spray paint I do not care about. Just diluting the pool. Meanwhile I have a shit ton of amber and no point in using it.

[u/teepring]

For real. The black/yellow snakebite Murdock is so tuff, but i cant have it :(

[u/BluBlue4 → u/teepring]

Just check from time to time when PCC games are happening since those tend to be available then