Opened over 25 anniversary loot boxes

[Tziva]

Literally every other Blizzard game with RNG for loot has Bad Luck Protection to some degree.

It would make no sense at all for Overwatch to not.

I don't think Heroes has any kind of bad luck protection on loot boxes. I don't think Diablo has anything for loot either? I could be wrong on those, but I'm pretty sure that it's just WoW (for legendaries and bonus rolls) and Hearthstone that have a system like t his.

Also, cosmetic items are Blizzard's sole revenue generator for Overwatch, so it would make sense for it to be different than Hearthstone or WoW that have expansions and/or subscriptions, because they don't want to make it too easy to get the things that fund the game.

[Chingylol]

Got Genji and D'vas skin in about 15-20 loot boxes.

Also got Winston and Widows dance.

[Jester Joe]

I don't think Heroes has any kind of bad luck protection on loot boxes. I don't think Diablo has anything for loot either? I could be wrong on those, but I'm pretty sure that it's just WoW (for legendaries and bonus rolls) and Hearthstone that have a system like t his.

Also, cosmetic items are Blizzard's sole revenue generator for Overwatch, so it would make sense for it to be different than Hearthstone or WoW that have expansions and/or subscriptions, because they don't want to make it too easy to get the things that fund the game.

I'm 90% sure they've outright said there's one for Diablo.

http://diablo.wikia.com/wiki/Legendary_Items

[Jessicka]

It's between 1:10 and 1:12 from people who've actually tested it for regular legendaries, and my experience bears that out. It's usually been very slightly higher than that for event skins. Although I only got my first (Pharah's) last night after over 20 boxes, although I did get Riverboat McCree about 3 boxes earlier. The event item is meant to be on a different roll though so that shouldn't really count.

I also only have two dances, Widowmaker and Hanzo.

As for bad luck protection, I'm sure that's something they said was there right back since beta.

[Acidbaron]

Got beekeeper on my first box (mei skin) but always been rather lucky with skins despite the lil time invested in this game.

[Deleted]

3 skins out of 29 boxes so far, random is random

[Seifa]

Yeah, i just opened 20+ boxes, got two dances and 3 orange drops... shame they were a 500 coins crate and 2 classic dupes. :S

I'm getting shafted hardcore these past two events, but at least there is still time for Anniversary.

[Woobels]

Anniversary is making more people pissed than usual it seems.

[ro9ue]

I preferred just buying skins outright like in HotS 1.0. I hate this RNG shit. The fact that Blizzard decided to actually go to loot boxes in BOTH games tells me they are getting a ton of money exploiting the psychology of a skinner box and I find that pretty disgusting.

[Protean]

regarding law - a lot of countries have some weird anti-gambling laws. buying a loot box, and i doubt many will argue against this, is gambling. just curious.. what is the exact wording in the t&c's that allows them to circumvent that?

or is it like some wow stuff and people from x/y/z countries just can't do it?

Gambling requires that you have a chance to gain something of monetary value. Skins and bullshit have 0 value besides the value you place on it.

[Sanguiris]

I bought a total of 120 loot boxes.

Got new legendary skins for Genji, Soldier X2, Bastion, Zarya, Pharah, Tracer, Symetra, DVA
Had to buy Hanzo, Lucio and Mei

Got most Dance emotes, all emblems, almost all sprays.

In fact I was missing at the end 3 skins, bout 6 voice lines, 2 dances emotes, 3 sprays

[Jessicka]

I just got 76 skin, about 3 boxes after Pharah. Again, not even keen on it. Just want the Rockabilly D.Va

[Maglen]

It does seem this event hasn't gone down particularly well; the new skins weren't generally very well received and the dances being limited time has caused a lot of upset; so even without the potentially lower drop rates it does look like they realised they dropped the ball on this.

People are tired of gambling on a game. People have realized that there's not enough time during the even to get the limited event items.

People are sick of this shit in a game they paid for.

[Kathranis]

I preferred just buying skins outright like in HotS 1.0. I hate this RNG shit. The fact that Blizzard decided to actually go to loot boxes in BOTH games tells me they are getting a ton of money exploiting the psychology of a skinner box and I find that pretty disgusting.

You can still buy skins outright in HotS.

[rogoth]

bought 50 loot boxes and had a couple of free ones from the event itself, opened up 6 legendary skins, almost all the dance emotes and every single player icon, with most of the new voice lines/sprays also, i was sitting on around 6k currency too so anything i didn't get i was able to craft outright anyway.

[Dequanacus]

And i didnt get any skins. Are the drop rates that low?

My friend opened 5 boxes and got three legend skins. Are the drop rates that high?

[Jessicka]

People are tired of gambling on a game. People have realized that there's not enough time during the even to get the limited event items.

People are sick of this shit in a game they paid for.

I don't think that so much as Uprising set the bar very very high, the skins were well received and people had saved currency in the interim as it had been a while since CNY. This followed very soon after, the response to the skins was negative and I'm not sure how popular 1v1 and 3v3 actually are. In many ways it has been a let down, and the low drop rates on 24 new dances and the amount of dilution from portraits, sprays and voice lines makes it kinda feel you often don't get anything.

[Deleted]

I preferred just buying skins outright like in HotS 1.0. I hate this RNG shit. The fact that Blizzard decided to actually go to loot boxes in BOTH games tells me they are getting a ton of money exploiting the psychology of a skinner box and I find that pretty disgusting.

Not just Blizzard, Dota and probably plenty of other companies and games does the same thing. I'm fine with it for as long as it's cosmetic, and especially if you can obtain the items for free via normal play. HotS requires you to purchase heroes though correct? I'm not sure how anyone could be fine with that, when games like HoN and Dota give you access to all heroes at no cost.

[Jessicka]

Not just Blizzard, Dota and probably plenty of other companies and games does the same thing. I'm fine with it for as long as it's cosmetic, and especially if you can obtain the items for free via normal play. HotS requires you to purchase heroes though correct? I'm not sure how anyone could be fine with that, when games like HoN and Dota give you access to all heroes at no cost.

You earn gold by playing which you can buy heroes with in hots.

[Deleted]

You earn gold by playing which you can buy heroes with in hots.

Still not acceptable to me, as I said in Dota all heroes are available to everyone at all times, you don't need to purchase a single one, and you still don't need to pay to play the game.

Imagine if you had to purchase heroes in Overwatch in order to play them.