It's your primary progression system, and the acquisition of cards is done via loot boxes... and yes, you can buy loot
boxes with real world money.
Loot boxes spark the dreaded microtransaction fear, but you can't buy Mother
Boxes with real world money, which at least demonstrates some restraint on the part of the analytics people at Warner Bros..
Where the exploitation can come in is that these REQ packs can also be purchased
with real world money so if one of my opposition was willing to spend the coin, they could have quite a significant stockpile of great gear.
At the highest level, players can kill each other and permanently loot both gear and gold, including items and currency that were paid
for with real world money.
If a publisher is allowing you to purchase these
things with real world money, that means the game you paid full price for has been artificially inflated.
Based on the report, every game with loot boxes that can be
bought with real world money are subject to the law with little exception, and the BGC acknowledges that the issue could be more widespread than their investigation.
I think if you can pay for these costumes with skill rather than
with real world money I'm fine with that.
Packs can be bought with with FIFA points, which have to be bought
with real world money, or coins, which are earned through playing FUT matches.
Assuming you want to buy everything,
with real world money, before playing the game for the first time, you're looking at $ 732 on top of the $ 60 to purchase the game.
It's a practice that's been adopted by Microsoft and implemented into Forza Motorsport 5 - in - game tokens can be purchased
with real world money to gain access to some of the game's more prestigious motors.
Now, also for the sake of argument, let's look at games that have loot boxes, but don't allow you to buy
them with real world money.
Well, because loot boxes are coming in virtually all of this holiday's most anticipated games: Shadow of War, Battlefront 2, and even Assassin's Creed: Origins (the latter of which won't allow you to obtain
these with real world money).
Additional champions will be able to be rented with «favor» — a special in - game currency earned by completing matches or by purchasing
them with real world money.