{"id":35589,"date":"2018-07-26T20:53:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T20:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/323025"},"modified":"2018-07-26T20:53:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T20:53:00","slug":"forza-motorsport-7-will-not-feature-loot-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/26\/forza-motorsport-7-will-not-feature-loot-boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Forza Motorsport 7 will not feature loot boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turn 10 has announced that prize crates, <em>Forza\u00a0Motorsport 7&#8217;s<\/em>\u00a0version of\u00a0loot boxes, will be removed from the game later\u00a0this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The removal of prize crates seems to be in response to complaints made by players who found them intrusive and unneccessary, rendering the microtransactions\u00a0unpopular with its\u00a0fan base.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/forzamotorsport.net\/en-us\/news\/Forza_Summer_Update\">detailed in a blog post<\/a>, Turn 10 dev\u00a0Alan Hartman discusses how removing the prize crates from all of <em>Forza Motorsport 7&#8217;s <\/em> systems was a complex process, which is why the change isn&#8217;t going to be immediate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As for right now, cars have been removed from prize crates and offer no competitive advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they\u00a0only contain cosmetic items like driver gear and badges, alongside mods that can be used to increase rewards in single-player.<\/p>\n<p>Cars that were previously exclusive to prize crates have been unlocked and can be bought normally.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to removing prize crates, <a href=\"https:\/\/forzamotorsport.net\/en-us\/news\/Forza_Summer_Update\">Hartman<\/a>\u00a0announced that\u00a0paid tokens (secondary currency purchased with real money) will not be featured\u00a0<em>Forza Motorsport 7<\/em> or <em>Forza Horizon 4<\/em>, both of which will\u00a0release in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turn 10 has announced that prize crates, Forza\u00a0Motorsport 7&#8217;s\u00a0version of\u00a0loot boxes, will be removed from the game later\u00a0this year.\u00a0 The removal of prize crates seems to be in response to complaints made by players who found them intrusive and unneccessary, rendering the microtransactions\u00a0unpopular with its\u00a0fan base.\u00a0 As detailed in a blog post, Turn 10 dev\u00a0Alan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}