Yes, but "loot" wasn't called "loot" in the RPGs before Blizzard - or at least not with the meaning Blizzard kind of invented : Collecting loot was just not there. Blizzard invented it. Before that, loot was just a means to survival - and for getting money for buying better things.
Blizzard changed "loot" into an collectible.


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