Respawn you have a chance to change the industry give us honest microtransaction
I'm guessing you didn't have much say in the matter, maybe you didn't put much thought into it. But now you have created the next big thing and you have a lot of power right now. Do you want to just be the company that made that one game that put a dent in Fortnite or do you want to be the company that **changed the gaming culture** for the good?
You need to make money, we understand that. I am talking about a *pivot*, drop the boxes and the gambling. Be the **first** AAA game that gave us honest to god bare bones transactions. No obfuscating costs behind multiple currencies. No gambling boxes that have a 1% chance to give you something you want.
These are **poison** to gaming culture and are a get rich quick scheme that does nothing to engender your audience and will leave them ready to drop you the moment something new and shiny appears over the horizon.
**Imagine with me for a second, what if we woke up tomorrow and instead of loot boxes we could pay 25 cents for a common skin, 50 cents for a rare, 1$ for an epic, 3$ for a legendary skin.**
Now lets play a scenario out, little Timmy has his 20 dollar allowance and he wants to spend it on that new hit game all of his friends have been talking about. He loves Wraith but he really wants to play Mirage. So he loads up that 20 dollars into his account and sees he will either have to spend the next 3 months weekends playing to earn that character or spend half his money to buy him.
He goes with the buy choice because all his friends are playing the new characters and he doesn't want to be left out. Now he is left with just enough coins to buy a pack of 10 boxes. So he pulls that lever and out pops a Gibraltar skin, a Pathfinder finisher and a legendary (as if he would get one in 10 boxes) weapon skin for a sniper rifle but timmy hates sniping because it's boring.
By the time his next months allowance rolls around I bet he would be a lot more willing to grab some new stuff he has gotten interested in compared to pulling another lever and hoping he maybe gets lucky and gets something he wants.
This is something that could easily happen and I would bet my life has happened hundreds if not thousands of times already. How do you think Timmy is going to feel about your company now that he has spent all his money and is left holding some junk he has no interest in? How willing do you think he will be to spend next months allowance on your game? Now imagine if he could plunk down 5$ to grab that new champ, and 15$ on some cool skins for his champ and some guns he actually likes using.
By the time his next months allowance rolls around I bet he would be a lot more willing to grab some new stuff he has gotten interested in compared to pulling another lever and hoping he maybe gets lucky and gets something he wants.
The **ball is in your court** Respawn, you could change the gaming world if you only wanted to. I hope you do the right thing and consider it.