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Author: Rytex

Jan 4th 2018 at 7:33:12 AM

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*'' VideoGame/{{Runescape}}'' has the Treasure Hunter "minigame" which offers you some free chests with money, bonus experience, or other goods inside once per day, but the option to purchase more with real money.  Added to the mix were legitimate Loot Crates, which only further muddied things up and drew the ire of several players as the ''Battlefront II'' controversy started to go down.

[[AC:First-Person Shooters]]
* ''VideoGame/CounterStrike: Global Offensive'' features these, which drop weapon skins (one per crate).  Third-party sites used to be able to manipulate the odds of dropping high-level skins and such, and it led to a rather large controversy when it was discovered that some of these third-party sites were a) involved in legitimate gambling incidents, and b) manipulating the odds to sell their site, but then making it literally impossible to get high-level drops by turning the high-level drops to 0%.

[[AC:Sports]]
* All of EA Sports' games feature this in some way in their "Ultimate Team" mechanic, which involves packs of "cards" and "contracts", where the cards feature players, and the contracts are the amount of games that you can play with them before they disappear.  Card packs can be earned manually, but can also be purchased in bulk.
* ''VideoGame/RocketLeague'' features crates that can drop car skins, car bodies, wheel skins, goal explosions, etc.  Their claim to fane, however, was that during the Hallowe'en and Christmas special seasons, they sold "Decryptors" that could only be purchased with in-game, non-buyable currency, and these decryptors would open ''any'' lootcrate (with the same odds as usual) and the inside object would be treated as a holiday item (non-tradeable to other players) but able to be traded in with other such items in exchange for a rarer one.