How We Feel About How Microtransactions Have Changed
Xbox: The Official Magazine|June 2018

The future of microtransactions looks brighter than ever with the enormous shift in publishers’ perspectives.

How We Feel About How Microtransactions Have Changed

With the recent news that Middle Earth: Shadow Of War will be pulling microtransactions from the game in their entirety, and Star Wars Battlefront II drastically changing their stance, Team OXM decides to weigh in to discuss.

Daniella: I’m so happy to see loot boxes removed in Shadow Of War and how they’ve changed in SWBFII, though at the same time I also think them being terrible in the first place needed to happen.

Stephen: SWBFII definitely took most of the flak at the time, but the real problem was locking actual gameplay items behind the paywall. Yes, you can play to unlock them as well, but that was a huge grind and if players can grab the coolest stuff right from the start with a credit card that’s not right.

Warren: I played a ton of SWBFII at launch and witnessed players who picked up the Elite Trooper Deluxe Edition get an instant head start over everyone else. I’d like to see paying upfront for loot crate content disappear frankly. It was even being sold with the tag line “dominate the battlefront” and it was instantly apparent that players with deep pockets, were!

This story is from the June 2018 edition of Xbox: The Official Magazine.

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