For this reason, Overwatch 2 will be moving away from the loot box scheme for rewarding players and will use a Battle Pass system that will allow players to see what rewards they’re either playing for or buying into. Over the years, some of the more seasoned Overwatch players have stopped opening loot boxes altogether as they’ve unlocked everything, and it’ll mostly be duplicate rewards that will automatically become coins at this point. An Overwatch player shared an image of what they discovered while doing some loot box spring cleaning.
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Comments in the Reddit thread are a plethora of players admitting their hoarding habits, one claiming they have over 1,100 loot boxes. With the inevitability of Overwatch 2 ditching loot boxes and unceremoniously opening the remaining loot boxes, some fans are setting aside time to open them up personally. The action of opening loot boxes in the game became mundane after all these years but with time running out on loot boxes, these fans sound willing to go through the fanfare and confetti hundreds of times to reveal what rewards have been sitting in the boxes.
There were some that took issue with the way that Blizzard will go about retiring loot boxes when Overwatch transitions to Overwatch 2 and what the remaining coins will be used for. There’s a feeling of unease or distrust in automatically opening and depositing the items into a player’s account, even with assurances that progression and rewards will transfer to Overwatch 2. Loot boxes were an interesting way to dole out additional cosmetics, but its time has passed and Overwatch 2 will use a somewhat more transparent reward system.
Overwatch 2 enters Early Access on October 4 for PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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