Overwatch Player Has Been Sitting on a Wrecking Ball Loot Box for Years, But It'll Soon Be Gone

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When Overwatch first launched, the idea of the loot box was still a borderline fresh concept for rewarding players with additional items, either by playing games or buying bundles at the in-game store. In the years since, loot boxes in video games have fallen out of favor as the randomness of the hidden items has been seen as too close to gambling for some game franchises and companies.

For this reason, Overwatch 2 will be moving away from the loot box scheme for rewarding players and will use a Battle Pass system that will allow players to see what rewards they're either playing for or buying into. Over the years, some of the more seasoned Overwatch players have stopped opening loot boxes altogether as they've unlocked everything, and it'll mostly be duplicate rewards that will automatically become coins at this point. An Overwatch player shared an image of what they discovered while doing some loot box spring cleaning.

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A fan posted a picture on Reddit of how deep their backlog is, showing off a loot box with the Wrecking Ball hero icon emblazoned on the sides. This hero-specific loot box was given out as part of Amazon's Twitch Prime Rewards shortly after the hero launched in 2018. This loot box seems like a one-off as all other loot box design variants seem to stick to events within the game like Summer Games and the Overwatch Anniversary or special Golden Loot Boxes from the in-game store. The sentiment of still having this loot box after all this time is commendable. But with loot boxes disappearing in a few months, this fan may want to go ahead and open it and see what is inside.

Comments in the Reddit thread are a plethora of players admitting