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Valve Is Ditching Battle Passes Since Most Players 'Never Buy' One (www.kotaku.com.au)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Valve is the best of the bunch

really? they were the ones who came up with loot boxes for weapon skins in the first place

[–] Maggoty 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Weapon skins is nothing. There are games putting overpowered characters and weapons in the loot boxes/battlepasses. Some of them then allow you to trade them for real money on an auction house. Anything skins is harmless at this point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

And in those boxes I sometimes see < 1% chances on the main item to drop and close to 50% for useless junk...

All games have their methods to leach cash out of players, but some methods are just despicable. Galaxy of FIre: Alliances was a positive exception. Buy a point doubler for $1.99 that's permanent... Those amounts are within the expendable income part for almost all players. (not > 100 for 1 item or thousand for gambling)