#overwatch lootboxes

Developer Update: Happy New Year

Recaps events of last year (until 1:30)

States that team has many things prepared for 2018

Overwatch League Skins

Beginning of Overwatch League

New Maps:

Blizzard World

Great new maps in the works

New Heroes

Hero 27 is almost ready! 

States that the hero is a ton of fun to play, and they want to get it right before releasing it.

The team is already thinking beyond hero 27

Working towards improving competitive play

Looking for good short term fixes to help competitive play

Removing performance based sr for diamond and above players (viewed as short term)

Long term Change: Evolve view on competitive play overall (still being determined)

Continue story development

Mentions Winston’s recall and the heroes’ responses to that (going to be mentioned in both comics and cinematics)

Event: 

Lunar New Year: Year of the Dog

Significant content that players will be very happy with

Other vague changes based on player feedback

Uprising

States that uprising should return for players who have never played it

BUT it is going to evolve 

The development team has many “big ideas” that will be fun

Anniversary Event

Dance emotes will return

Non Event Lootbox

End of January

Tons of new content

today is the day of Doomfist

also many updates such as:

new placement of custom games

new crosshairs (customizable)

new highlights system (save replays, change resolution in highlight)

totally up to you! Since these wouldn’t be “serious” commissions I’m thinking like, colored sketch. something like this

Daily log in reward (could also work with credits = 1 box a day or 25 credits. Maybe credits for 6 days in a row and a lootbox or more for 7). Would reward activity and loyalty to the game!

Daily wheel of fortune spin!!!!!

During events: increased amount of lootboxes from leveling up and winning arcade games

Level checkpoints (ex. Reaching Level 10, 50, 100 gives more than 1 lootbox, like the portrait system)

At start of events providing us with 10 free lootboxes instead of 1. C'mon, this is obvious.

Add more general non-hero specific achievements with lootbox or credit rewards

Buy something from the merch shop = lootboxes reward in-game

Buy lots of things from the merch shop = more lootboxes as a thank you

Look, I get it. In-app purchases fund the creators. But blizzard has no reason to be so stingy with thier lootboxes! They run several games successfully and likely have more than enough money to pay their voice actors and employees (correct me if I’m wrong). If they keep this up, their fanbase will die out faster than most games of this kind do, and more and more people will miss out on the game due to the extreme requirement of having cash lying around every 1-2 months. I know I personally would be willing to spend more money on lootboxes if I knew the game made them easier to achieve and they weren’t so greedy with them.

Daily log in reward (could also work with credits = 1 box a day or 25 credits. Maybe credits for 6 days in a row and a lootbox or more for 7). Would reward activity and loyalty to the game!

Daily wheel of fortune spin!!!!!

During events: increased amount of lootboxes from leveling up and winning arcade games

Level checkpoints (ex. Reaching Level 10, 50, 100 gives more than 1 lootbox, like the portrait system)

At start of events providing us with 10 free lootboxes instead of 1. C'mon, this is obvious.

Add more general non-hero specific achievements with lootbox or credit rewards

Buy something from the merch shop = lootboxes reward in-game

Buy lots of things from the merch shop = more lootboxes as a thank you

Look, I get it. In-app purchases fund the creators. But blizzard has no reason to be so stingy with thier lootboxes! They run several games successfully and likely have more than enough money to pay their voice actors and employees (correct me if I'm wrong). If they keep this up, their fanbase will die out faster than most games of this kind do, and more and more people will miss out on the game due to the extreme requirement of having cash lying around every 1-2 months. I know I personally would be willing to spend more money on lootboxes if I knew the game made them easier to achieve and they weren't so greedy with them.