Looter shooter

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Looter shooter (also called loot shooter) is a subgenre of action role-playing games that incorporates shooter gameplay and procedurally generated weapons and equipment. A main goal of games in the genre is obtaining better items through grinding for random drops, typically with rarities ranging from common to legendary.^[1] One of the first looter shooters was the 2007 game Hellgate: London, but the genre only became popular with Borderlands in 2009, and even more so with Destiny in 2014. It now encompasses some of the most successful AAA games. Looter shooters are often games as a service, but this model emphasizes that players ignore other games, and can lead to player burnout.^[2]