Anthem is causing quite a mixed feelings among the players. On the one hand it is a new Bioware game, fancy and shiny co-op looting shooter with Iron Man-esque flying suits; on the other hand, well, it is Bioware, an (ex?) kind of cRPGs, now making a co-op lootbox shooter. To those of you who do not feel good about this, I have at least some good news: Bioware says that Anthem will have no paid loot boxes. There will be microtransactions, yes, but these will be cosmetic only, with no p2w. Michael Gamble, Bioware’s lead designer, says that adding paid lootboxes would be ”pointless”.

Well, good. Lets just hope that paid lootboxes will not suddenly get a point a few months after the game is out.