The paid-for lootbox is falling out of favour with consumers, and a s a result, it’s being used less and less by publishers who have to come up with new ways to nickel-and-dime their customers. The latest game to ditch paid lootboxes is one of the progenitors of the still popular Battle Royale genre; PlayerUnknown’s BattleGrounds.

Instead of randomised loot box offerings, Rocket League will instead switch over to Blueprints, digital plans that can be grabbed after every game. With a blueprint, there’ll be more transparency given to players as to what they’ll be capable of crafting, with unused loot crates being converted into “unrevealed blueprints” come December.

After the debacle around Star Wars Battlefront II last year, Belgium is putting a ban on games with loot boxes akin to those in Overwatch, Counter-Strike and FIFA 18.

EA has decided to finally remove Star Cards from loot crates in Battlefront II, bringing six months of pay-to-win microtransactions to an end.

Despite EA's changes post the beta, Battlefront II still rewards players handsomly for spending lots of money on loot crates, while making the playing field severe stacked against those who don't.

With fans voicing their displeasure, EA has been forced to rethink how loot crates in Star Wars Battlefront 2 work from the ground up.