Valve because they screwed over the Artifact fanbase by cancelling the Artifact 2.0 beta without even allowing users to invite friends like they said they would in January 2021 and does not deserve your financial support for these gross consumer-unfriendly practices.
I don't think tf2 popularized them, when CS:GO case openings were wicked popular circa 2015 mainstream games like call of duty and battlefield started adding them.
EA is the most evil, but I don't think any individual action is worse than in the early 2010s when Microsoft made an active agenda to normalize paid DLC. It worked and the industry is way worse for it.
microsoft
bungie
me.
Blizzard and OW were the main culprits behind normalizing loot boxes, so them.
That was TF2 and CSGO. EA is the most consistently evil though
Destroy them all and what do you have?
The npcs who bought their games.
The NPCs who beg for remakes/remasters
The NPCs who pre-order
The NPCs who browse this board
Microsoft
Gamers themselves
EA is littered with the corpses of smaller companies that would otherwise still probably be around today
Valve because they screwed over the Artifact fanbase by cancelling the Artifact 2.0 beta without even allowing users to invite friends like they said they would in January 2021 and does not deserve your financial support for these gross consumer-unfriendly practices.
As much as I hate to say it, Valve. If tf2 hadn't introduced Mann Co Supply Crates then lootboxes wouldn't be anywhere near as common these days.
I don't think tf2 popularized them, when CS:GO case openings were wicked popular circa 2015 mainstream games like call of duty and battlefield started adding them.
bethesda.
Google for basically enforcing "f2p with ads" monetization on mobile because it gives them a bigger cut than regular pricing.
EA, bar none.
Three ways tie between EA, Blizzard, and Sony
Gas the israeli system
EA is the most evil, but I don't think any individual action is worse than in the early 2010s when Microsoft made an active agenda to normalize paid DLC. It worked and the industry is way worse for it.