This is where you argument fails. If a loot box bought with gold, even if not all of that gold was bought through a rmt, is considered bought with a micro transaction then why isn't gold, and items, earned through a micro transaction that revealed them?
It isn't my own bias. I am not thumping any chest. You are ignoring your own logic just to label anything bought with gold bought with a micro transaction as a micro transaction. If you didn't use a micro transaction to buy something it isn't bought with a micro transaction. You keep creating new rules for what is and what is not a micro transaction in order to validate why Origins loot boxes are a micro transaction.
I am not the one who can't see the forest for the trees here. I am not the one claiming something that is not a micro transaction is one.
This here signifies the lack of understanding by you and others. The issue is fundamentally tied to the currency involved. Because the issue of Origins having a paid loot boxes is directly tied to them using the in-game currency that can be bought. If the issue was as you said then there is no need to call the Heka chests a paid micro transaction. There is enough of actual micro transactions in the game to express displeasure over.The larger issue in play that people discuss isn't based upon the accounting behind every bit of currency involved, though. It's a conceptual framework that is being applied to express displeasure with the amount of in-game content that is tied to transactions made after the initial cost.
The complaint rose from paid loot boxes in Origins. There are no paid loot boxes in origins. That is a simple fact. There is paid gold transactions. There is paid ability points. There is paid cosmetic items. There is paid weapons/shields. There is paid crafting mats. There is paid map points. There is literally no paid loot boxes.
I comprehend you and others just fine. I don't have to accept stupid to comprehend stupid. You even contradict yourself with the map pack and what is earned through/with it not being a micro transaction. Yet buying a loot box with gold partly earned through a micro transaction is a micro transaction for that loot box. Like I said not accepting stupid is not the same as not comprehending it.