PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Lawsuit Shows Insight Into Cosmetic Loot Boxes

By Geraltz On Apr 10, 2018

Loot Boxes have been on the mind of many over the last few years, especially during certain gaming debacles last year. However, not all of them are bad when they’re explained and the items you can get don’t necessarily affect gameplay. For PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, the Loot Boxes they are use specifically cosmetic, meaning that they only have items that can change the look of your characters, but not affect the gameplay. But is that actually the case? PUBG Corp is suing some copycat games and in the lawsuit, some interesting things were revealed.

As revealed by Gaming Bolt, the problem comes in how the games can use clothing if they’re not careful, and maybe not in the way you’re thinking:

“However, clothing does affect gameplay in terms of camouflage. Clothing can be used to assist the player to blend in with the environment, making the player less visually detectable.

The player must visually detect an opposing player without any aid other than equipment found in gameplay, such as an optical scope. Thus, the colors and stylings of the clothing found in BATTLEGROUNDS adds to the rich tapestry of the gameplay experience while permitting artistic expression.”

Their point is well made, camouflage can indeed affect the game on the large scale, which is why PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds doesn’t employ that in their game, so that it’s fair and still fun. After all, if everyone could use camouflage, everyone one would. Whether this factors into their lawsuit of the copycat games going in their favor remains to be seen.

Either way, this should give players some new insight into what kinds of clothing won’t work their way into PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds in the near future. Or, if it does, it will likely come with some serious restrictions. We’ll just have to wait and see how it all plays out.

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