Braag sneaks in a stealth episode to discuss Bringing Skirmy Back and how the introduction of Gorgoroth Lootboxes has changed the economy of the game..*yawn*
Braag sneaks in a stealth episode to discuss Bringing Skirmy Back and how the introduction of Gorgoroth Lootboxes has changed the economy of the game..*yawn*
Like almost everything in LOTRO, lootboxes are about choice – you can choose to participate, or you can choose not to. For me, not participating in certain LOTRO sub-systems (including lootboxes), decreases the gold sink which obviously then increases the size of my pocketbook. From there, depending on how much you’d want to “flip” those unwanted/unused items, you can move from the hundreds of gold, to the tens of thousands. I recently passed 10k gold by continuing to auction off the following items:
– Lootbox keys: Never got anything good out of them.
– Cosmetic pets: I have these turned off, so selling them is like selling something invisible.
– Housing items: Maybe I’ll stop selling these when housing becomes relevant in some manner.
– Anything essence related: Crafting those cooldown recipe components to sell nets about 50g per day.
As they say, “to each their own”. MMOs give you the freedom to play however you want. However, I will leave lootboxes in my filtered-out list.
…oh, and your mike sounds good!