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Infinity Ward Studio Art Director Joel Emslie: we're not working on a loot box system, functional stuff unlocked through gameplay, more info this week
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Interested to hear if this just a shell game, if he was privy to an unused concept (or it was left in the beta build?), or it it's a reaction to the significant noise since the initial report.
If it was a glitch why did it glitch into a title card? Someone made that card, and it was in the game files.Via Reddit in response to rumors regarding the game's microtransactions:
It should also be noted that a glitch in the Beta did cause the game to mention a Common Supply Drop
Yup. I tried playing it a few minutes ago and got my ass kicked so I went back to playing WWII.
Precisely how I expect this to go down. Packaged in with new seasons and content like crash.
Sure, they aren't working on lootbox NOW, just wait a couple of months :'D
The sad part is that at D1 the game will be probably fine lootbox-wise, the time that I will decide to buy it at a decent price they will add the worse MTX like already happened... you can't win with this crap :/
The sad part is that at D1 the game will be probably fine lootbox-wise, the time that I will decide to buy it at a decent price they will add the worse MTX like already happened... you can't win with this crap :/
A glitch because they just copy/paste the majority of previous game. They forgot to cut out the lootbox mentions.
Doesn't matter. At this point if it says Activision on the box I expect some kind of crappy microtransactions that'll affect the game, because they rarely come in any other shape these days.
The only way to solve the damaging effect they have on games, is to leave them out entirely.
The only way to solve the damaging effect they have on games, is to leave them out entirely.
they aren't working on the system...it's already done!
wording is words lol
If loot boxes are truly out I wonder if they cut stuff like the leaked killstreak/vehicle camo.
I can't see them doing that work if it isn't to pad out drops.
I can't see them doing that work if it isn't to pad out drops.
Like Activision implemented a loot-box system into CTR Nitro-fueled just after the patch released?
Sure you jest.
Sure you jest.
You guys are way too pessimistic. Why can't you trust a developer for once?
Of course they aren't working on loot box systems.
Because the work is already complete!
Of course they aren't working on loot box systems.
Because the work is already complete!
DICE was very clear that there would be cosmetics and that some of those would be purchased using a premium currency. What they said was they would not sell anything that had an effect on gameplay and so far they have kept to that.
Games rarely refer to loot boxes as "loot boxes", so my educated guess is it's deprecated code from a WIP/cancelled feature or even an errant localized key.
Depending on how much code is left over from Infinite Warfare, could even be that.
I think Activision is probably staying away from outright saying "we will never add loot boxes" (even if they don't currently have plans to) just on the basis that you should never "promise" anything to fans.
Don't use straight money it's 2019 gotta use that Pan money so the cops can't get ya
I feel like IW would actually push to keep them out and if Modern Warfare ends up being the biggest Call of Duty and sustaining that Activision might back down,
but the second it underperforms in Activisions eyes in any way they force them in.
Kinda like Black Ops 4 last year, the second Blackout's popularity and such started to dip...
crazy overpowered guns started getting put into lootboxes.
Yea but in their eyes if it over performs you add them because free money
If it under performs "trying to break even"
It has a lot of shit coming together at the same time, probably scaring Activision and Infinity Ward from having it locked in.
Coming off Black Ops 4 Activision has to see how badly it screwed that game over.
Black Ops 4
- pass owners were pissed the entire time, feeling the never got the value
- lootbox buyers were pissed because Treyarch packed themwith the most useless crap in the series(stickers, tags, etc)
- even typical COD youtubers cut way back on buying boxes because of that
- average players dropped off the most in the franchise because the damn lootbox guns being P2W and Treyarch not trying to balance them literally for months.
- the "free" operation support getting cut and cut as the year went on, the promise of years of support being dried up less than a year*
*them taking 4th of July items and putting them as later operation's items while making the 4th of July event just lootboxes was the icing on the cake.
now we have
-potential guns in boxes again, after the most game breaking guns in franchise history,
-survival a popular mode in MW3 being exclusive to one platform(regardless of actually being an afterthought)
- general attitude towards lootboxes
They are in a delicate position.
Modern Warfare is already meant to be a return to form, if it gets screwed up Call of Duty will start having a bit more issues(obviously nothing will kill it but the reactions might start looking like Infinite Warfare's).
Even from a business perspective it might be best to avoid lootbox mess with this game and try to look good going into Call of Duty 2020(even if that game has them)
