lockboxes
City of Titans on endgame, alting, PvP, business models, lockboxes, and whales
The first and most-backed City of Heroes successor City of Titans has a couple of dev pieces out this month answering questions posed to...
Blizzard is using a loophole to keep selling Overwatch lockboxes in China
There's a law on the books in China that states you can't sell random loot boxes in an online game without disclosing the odds...
Academics and addiction experts weigh in on ‘pay-to-loot’ gambleboxes and lockboxes
"Pay-to-win" is old news now -- game designers' new plan for hoovering all the cash out of our wallets is "pay-to-loot."
According to IGN's Nathan...
Riders of Icarus changes up its lockbox system
Lockboxes: every MMO game's favorite subject, are we right? Over in the world of Riders of Icarus, Nexon is making a small but significant...
MMO lockboxes, keys, and booster packs: Gambling or gaming?
Lockboxes have become a hot topic over the last couple of years. Last month, both our writers and readers crowned SWTOR worst business model of...
China is cracking down on MMORPG lockbox vendors
Violently authoritarian government regulates nasty video gaming monetization exploit, and gamers are cheering? Yep, China is cracking down on lockboxes. A notice from the creepy Ministry of...
Elder Scrolls Online rolls out lockboxes this week
I'm sure you're as tired of hearing about lockboxes as we are of writing about them, but here we are and it's still happening....
Guild Wars 2 has overhauled its lockboxes
Guild Wars 2's lockboxes got a bit of revision in today's patch.
"You won’t find boosters among your loot anymore, but you will find a...
Tamriel Infinium vs Hyperspace Beacon: Three ways to make lockboxes work better in MMORPGs
Last week, I stirred up a hornet’s nest by bringing up the topic of lockboxes and how I really didn’t mind them in general.
Hyperspace...
Defiance kicks off battle event, increases patron rewards
A hotspot has just opened up in the admittedly already battle-ravaged world of Defiance. This week, the team initiated the Neo Votanis Freebooters event,...
Massively Overthinking: Please complain about MMOs, loudly and insistently
Last weekend, the blogosphere exploded over an article that essentially told the MMORPG community to shut up, sit down, and stop complaining about things...
The Daily Grind: Should MMORPG lockbox mechanics be regulated as gambling?
A reader named Paul recently wrote to us wondering why RNG lockboxes aren't considered gambling. Oh sure, we call them gambleboxes, but the government...
Star Trek Online finally makes a classic T6 Connie available — in a lockbox
If you've waded in the waters of Star Trek Online's community for any length of time, you'll no doubt have noticed that there's a...
WildStar challenges players to hunt world bosses this weekend
WildStar's world bosses are big, ornery, and the general sort of thing that lots of players need to band together to defeat. Nothing wrong...
The Daily Grind: Should MMO studios disclose the odds of winning lockbox prizes?
Every once in a while in an MMO, the desire to play with numbers grips me, like the time I hand-crafted a thousand drinks in Star...
Trove rolls out the neon dragons today
Trove has gone down for maintenance and isn't expected to be back up until 1:00 p.m. EDT. That's the bad news. The good news...
Star Trek Online starts selling puppy lockboxes
Quick, someone call the animal humane society because Star Trek Online is cramming innocent puppies into airtight boxes!
This puppy abuse is part of STO's...
