Eyedye.7582

Confession - I haven't read all 26 pages. Rather, I am going to use this opportunity to insert my "2cents" without linking into someone else's post. Using this as an opportunity for a normally silent player (myself) to speak up! Games have moved from playing to unlock items, to paying to unlock items. Now as we move forwards in the gaming industry, you see more and more persons / groups speaking up against games that introduce the lootbox / pay2win (e.g. Battlefront 2). There is a reason why GW2 is still up there over newer MMO's such as Archeage, Black Desert etc. They've fallen to "loot boxes" or "pay to win." Granted GW2 is an older MMO, and the company needs to fund the cause somehow. I get that, I do. However the introduction of a loot box is with a risk, because now we're falling into the same pit as less than popular MMO's, into what is becoming a negative trend in the gaming industry. In this situation, its also poor timing. There are concerns about the expansion itself. So the introduction of this mount skin roulette has it appear the current glaring issues are being overlooked, or pushed aside, in favour of hitting the cash pinata. Where as open communication about these issues would offer a fix, confidence in the company from the playerbase. If I were to use a popular MMO as an example - lets take EQ2. Game based off of a very successful brand. I recall when they introduced an ingame cash store out of the blue, the population nosedived. Look at where the game is now, a game that once could have rivaled popular MMO's is now rarely mentioned.