10 Things NOBODY Wants To Admit About Battle Royale

Even if you hate Apex and love PUBG (PlayerUnknown's BattleGrounds), there's one simple thing that ties them all together in one nice anti-consumer package:

Loot boxes. Everybody's favourite form of random chance rewards. The loot box at this point has become a staple of the genre, and simply refuses to die a thousand deaths like it truly deserves.

Each iteration of Battle Royale includes the coveted money-making machines in one way or another - a system so despised by the gaming community that Disney itself had to step in a few years ago and make EA sit on the naughty step after the Battlefront 2 fiasco.

You know something's went wrong when the mouse himself makes an appearance.

However, the difference here is that this version of the loot box serves to reward only cosmetics, removing the advantages over other players, but ensuring that loot boxes as a mechanic remain relevant in the current market. Following in the footsteps of industry loot box titans like Overwatch means the practice is only gaining in popularity with every release.