Loot crates may become a console-wide thing on Xbox

Title Loot crates may become a console-wide thing on Xbox
Author Nick Diamon
Posted in News
When January 10, 2018

A report from Windows Central asserts that the upcoming revamp of the Xbox Avatar feature will include a "career" system with levels, quests, and even cosmetic loot crate rewards..

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Pfft, yeah sure but who owns an Xbox these days?

If they aren’t purchasable for real money, I don’t think anyone cares.

Even if they are, and are completely cosmetic, I don’t care. It’s not like the Xbox dashboard has gameplay that can be compromised to accommodate for loot crates.

Well, they certainly weren’t shy about selling cosmetic Avatar items.

Good point - the time to start clutching our pearls over avatar cash grabs was probably ten years ago.

Man, that happened back when MS started selling Gamerpic images - literally tiny jpg files - on the 360 marketplace.

Yeah, didn’t care about it then and don’t care about it now. I would never buy it because it has zero value to me, but it isn’t predatory in any way.

Did MS sell gamerpics? I remember being flooded in the damn things, some games would give them to you when you unlocked an achievement.