If you’re lucky enough to beat the odds, opening a loot box in Apex Legends might get you a set of “heirloom” items. These are extremely scarce cosmetic items with a less than one percent chance of dropping, though you’re guaranteed to get one after 500 boxes. One player ended up spending $500 to go through 500 boxes in the hopes of getting the illusive items. Now that he has them, he doesn’t feel like it was worth it. Cole is a 24-year-old who claims himself have been gaming all his life. He’s no stranger to microtransactions in many of their forms, including loot boxes. Cole told Kotaku over Reddit private messages that before Apex Legends , he was playing Fortnite . In a post that’s now been removed from the Apex Legends subreddit—though lives on in a cached version on Google—Cole wrote that he played Overwatch and Rocket League as well. “These games didn’t tempt me into ludicrous spending. In my many hours in both games I probably spent less than $30 total,” he w...