Popular free-to-play mobile crippled Brawl Stars is doing thing a spot different. In an epoch wherever it seems each crippled is trying to nickel and dime you with much and much worldly to buy, alternatively it’s removing loot boxes and each random rewards wholly from the game. It’s yet different motion that loot boxes are apt to go a relic of the past arsenic lawmakers and players propulsion backmost connected the random rewards. But that doesn’t mean Brawl Stars players are universally blessed astir their removal.

Released successful 2019 for phones and tablets, Brawl Stars mixed cute characters with MOBA-like gameplay and immoderate conflict royale elements. The extremity effect was a amusive top-down competitory enactment crippled that I played for weeks and weeks. But since I stopped playing, millions person continued to bask it: Brawl Stars has made implicit a cardinal dollars successful profit for Supercell and inactive has an progressive subordinate basal and community. Now, Supercell has removed each loot boxes from the game, and absorption to the alteration is oddly mixed.

Announced successful a Brawl Talk video posted past week, Supercell’s latest update to Brawl Stars has removed each random rewards from the game. These boxes were chiefly utilized to unlock caller characters successful the game. Since its merchandise 3 years ago, Brawl Stars has heavy featured loot boxes arsenic portion of its rewards. But with yesterday’s update, that’s nary longer the case.

“No much probabilities, nary much random rewards, and nary much playing the guessing crippled erstwhile you unlock Brawlers,” said the game’s pb decorator Frank Keienburg successful Supercell’s Brawl Talk video.

Yesterday, arsenic portion of this update, each unclaimed boxes were automatically opened and each the rewards were fixed to players accordingly. Moving forward, Keienburg and Supercell accidental that each rewards—including its conflict passes—will beryllium replaced with “different, deterministic rewards, immoderate of which are caller to the game.” Now, players person a caller conflict pass-like feature, The Starr Road, which lets them unlock each characters for escaped via grinding. Players tin present conscionable bargain immoderate brawler they privation with gems, alternatively of randomly buying dozens of loot boxes to possibly get a circumstantial hero.

“We’re making this alteration for a fewer reasons,” continued Keienburg. “Mainly, moving distant from probabilities and chance, which volition marque things much just and predictable for you. It besides gives you wide and breathtaking goals each clip you play the game.”

Of course, there’s besides the anticipation that Supercell and different devs are removing loot boxes arsenic various governments astir the world statesman cracking down connected them with proposed caller laws and regulations.

While I deliberation removing loot boxes is simply a bully happening and thing worthy celebrating—especially arsenic mobile games proceed to beryllium immoderate of the worst offenders with adjacent bully games similar Marvel Snap including predatory purchases of over $100 oregon more—the assemblage absorption is acold little positive. While immoderate players look blessed astir the removal of random reward crates, others expressed disappointment. The comments connected the Brawl Talk video has players rallying against the devs and demanding boxes instrumentality to Brawl Stars.

Why? For immoderate it seems that the excitement of a loot container outweighed the vexation that often accompanies them. Others suggested they present person small involvement successful playing the crippled since random rewards are being removed. (I deliberation immoderate of these radical request to halt and deliberation if they truly similar Brawl Stars oregon conscionable similar pulling a virtual lever connected a slot machine…) We saw thing akin to this hap with Overwatch 2’s release, wherever immoderate players were aggravated astatine the removal of loot boxes and demanded they beryllium returned to the game. And portion I agree that progression successful Overwatch 2 sucks astatine the moment, I’d alternatively Blizzard fig retired a mode to hole that doesn’t impact bringing backmost loot boxes, adjacent if it did springiness you a batch of escaped ones before.

The world is that arsenic games proceed to go much and much popular, much countries volition statesman investigating the manufacture and however it makes money. And loot boxes are apt ne'er to instrumentality successful vogue arsenic agelong arsenic truthful many governments are starring crusades to modulate oregon outlaw them.