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PUBG Loot Crate Items Could Take Over 30 Years to Unlock

by | Jan 11, 2018 | News, News Section, PC, Videogames

PUBG Loot Crate Items Could Take Over 30 Years to Unlock

by | Jan 11, 2018 | News, News Section, PC, Videogames

Player Unknown Battlegrounds, or PUBG, has just released the drop rates for all of their loot crates, and they aren’t pretty. While many people were shocked to discover it would take over 4,500 hours to unlock the best characters in Star Wars Battlefront II, it doesn’t come close to how long it might take to get an item in PUBG. You could play PUBG for the next 30 years, opening every crate you possibly can, and still not get the one item you have been looking for.

PUBG Loot Boxes

Courtesy of PUBG Showcase

Like all loot crates, PUBG’s guarantee at least one item from every open, so players won’t find themselves waiting too long to start getting loot. However, with the drop rates ranging from 15% on some of the highest items to .01% on the lowest, there are going to be a lot of duplicates. That might not be so bad if crates were more abundant, but the developers have also revealed that they are going to limit the number of boxes in a week to just 6.

In case you are curious of that math, that’s 10,000 crates that need to be opened to get just one of the rarest items in the game. If you can open 6 crates in a week, that will take the average player 1,667 weeks, or if weeks are a little hard to wrap your head around, it will take just over 32 years. Even the rarest drop rate in WoW, the Big Love Rocket, would only take players 11 years to get (and would take much less effort).

PUBG Loot Box

Graph by PUBG Showcase

The biggest problem with PUBG’s new system isn’t just that the drop rates are low. The issue with PUBG is that they have factored in the ability to pay for loot crates. While getting a super rare mount or pet in WoW was a testament to patience, resolve, and luck, getting a drop in PUBG is a testament to little more than cash and luck This is on top of loot crates which can only be opened by keys (which players can conveniently only purchase with real money). It makes it seem a lot like PUBG is intentionally trying to force their players into spending money and playing the game without much concern for if they ever actually get the loot they’re looking for. All of this is bad enough, but the thing most mystifying about it all is what the drops actually are.

 Overwatch skins change entirely how a character looks and sometimes changes the animations for their attacks. A League of Legends skin, at the cost of a few bucks (or a much higher drop rate) can give a new look, new attacks, and even new voice acting. By comparison, a Floral shirt in PUBG, which resembles a bad Ed Hardy ripoff, would take a player six years to farm and is about the ugliest cosmetic item ever invented. Even a pair of shoes such as the Black Sneakers would take nearly a month and a half of farming for an item that not only looks unimpressive and boring, but has almost a certainty that no one will ever look at. It’s not only ridiculous prices and ridiculous drop rates; it’s all of that for some of the most uninspired and lazy designs around.

But hey, at least the Pink Skinny Jeans will only take a player a couple of months of farming.

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