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06-23-2017, 05:11 AM
Blizzard sees you: 'Overwatch' loot boxes will drop less duplicates
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In a new developer update posted today, Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan an**unced that the game's loot boxes will have a much lower chance of dropping duplicate items in the future.
"One of the things that we're going to do is drastically reduce the rate of duplicates that you'll get out of any loot box," Kaplan said while wearing a D.va jersey. "We think this will be immediately evident and extremely significant for all of our players and we think it's going to feel fantastic."
This will hopefully solve the super an**ying problem of opening loot boxes during events, getting excited when you see a legendary-level item in there, and then being incredibly disappointed when it turns out you already have that skin. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/22/overwatch-loot-box-fix/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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In a new developer update posted today, Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan an**unced that the game's loot boxes will have a much lower chance of dropping duplicate items in the future.
"One of the things that we're going to do is drastically reduce the rate of duplicates that you'll get out of any loot box," Kaplan said while wearing a D.va jersey. "We think this will be immediately evident and extremely significant for all of our players and we think it's going to feel fantastic."
This will hopefully solve the super an**ying problem of opening loot boxes during events, getting excited when you see a legendary-level item in there, and then being incredibly disappointed when it turns out you already have that skin. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/22/overwatch-loot-box-fix/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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