Are loot boxes going the way of the dodo?
Paid loot boxes are currently the crème de la crème of gaming monetization (along with gacha gambling), but thanksto recent legislative pushes, some publishers might be pivoting. A “we don’t have loot boxes, look at us” campaign is a no-brainer if your game already had no plans to include them, and we can only recently addHalo Infiniteto that list.
Halo Infiniteis very much still a mystery, but according to 343 boss Chris Lee, it will not have paid loot boxes. Well, at least we got that old chestnut out of the way. Speaking to a YouTube content creator Lee noted: “Keep the faith, it’s appreciated! We’re still working through final plans and will share more when we are ready, but I can definitely say thatHalo Infinitewill not include real-money loot boxes.”
Don’t pack it up just yet though, asInfinitewill likely contain microtransactionsthanks to a job listingthat spilled the beans. His tricky statement also doesn’t preclude the existence of loot boxes, just paid ones. Foiled again!
