There are dumb people. There are real morons. And there are people who buy lootboxes

When I logged in World of Warships, I was greeted with my Santa’s gift: a lootbox. Also got the “opportunity” to buy more lootboxes. I dismissed it and doubted that anyone on the planet is retarded enough to buy these.

Obviously, I was wrong, as the top posts of the World of Warships subreddit proves:

There is also a “Hitler opens lootboxes” video, which is funny.

The third post leads to a fansite that analyzes what can you “win” from these boxes and guess what, you are better off just spending your money directly in the shop than buying a box that mostly contain something you don’t want.

Well, that part is obvious to me, but the high upvotes show that the average player is really into buying these retarded lottery tickets even if the prizes are horrible. “Because opening lootboxes is fun!” – they probably say.

This also shed light why the lootbox opening is animated. I mean you get 3 normal boxes for doing the 3 daily XP challenge (2K, 12.5K, 37K) and you can get some more from the “Royal Navy” event quests. In the case of the normal ones, you have to select type (resources or you are wrong) and then a crane slowly places the crate on your ship. Then you have to open it and an animation happens where you see what did you win. For the quest and purchased boxes, only the opening happens. I consider this a waste of time and wish I could lock my choice of selection and that the crates are given and opened without animations. But there is a reason why they did this way: because watching it arriving and opening is fun for the gambling morons.

So every time you see a retarded game feature, don’t ask why. Just check the morons upvoting it in the subreddit and you have the answer: the median player is stupid and half of the players is even stupider.