m_f@midwest.social to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 hours agoSteam has the best UImidwest.socialimagemessage-square78fedilinkarrow-up1449arrow-down111
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minus-squareJustin@lemmy.jlh.namelinkfedilinkarrow-up14·18 hours agotechnically tf2 was the first loot box
minus-squareVenator@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 hour ago The first known instance of a loot-box system is believed to be an item called “Gachapon ticket” which was introduced in the Japanese version of MapleStory, a side-scrolling MMORPG, in June 2004. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loot_box#History Tf2 wasn’t released until 2007, and it didn’t ship with any unlocking let alone loot, the first unlockable items were added 2 years later in 2009: https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Item_timeline_in_2009
technically tf2 was the first loot box
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loot_box#History
Tf2 wasn’t released until 2007, and it didn’t ship with any unlocking let alone loot, the first unlockable items were added 2 years later in 2009: https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Item_timeline_in_2009