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[–] BootyEnthusiast@lemmy.dbzer0.com 120 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Dude needs to stop playing predatory gacha games.

I don't understand people who WILLINGLY install that shit. They KNOW how they work and are monetized. And unlike gambling at a casino, there's zero chance of you being up money at any point.

[–] Mustakrakish@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think of them as "Gotcha!" games, cause their point is to trick you.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I think that's where the term gacha comes from. A japanization of the term gotcha.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

No, "gacha" comes from "gashapon," the crank vending machines, and the name is an onomatopoeia. "Gacha" (or "gasha") is the sound of the crank being turned, and "pon" is the sound of the capsule dropping out.

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 hours ago

For forever I thought that was the correct spelling and the entire point

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Addiction doesn't really care about this kind of logic.

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Exactly. I have been gaming for decades, yet I never played any of these. Only heard of WOW and Apex Legends out of all the names, no idea what the rest are.

It is possible to spend your money and time on games that provide the entertainment you’re looking for, but not exploit you.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago

I was going to say YEAH! but then remembered I was addicted to World of Warcraft from 2006 to 2017 and then ~~relapsed~~ started playing again in 2019 after WoW classic came out and every now and then something wriggles in my brain to say you should sign up again, it'll be fun

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I played Arknights for a bit because there's actually a pretty solid tower defense game in there. There's not a big selection of good games for Android and I wanted something I could play when I have no laptop with me.

Unfortunately the good gameplay is buried under tons of attention hogging gacha bullshit.

I stopped playing once I realized that I was spending more time doing chores than actually playing through interesting content. Also, while the BGM is nothing short of lavish, the presentation of the story is like a very cheap VN, which basically killed any hope of getting engaged in the story or the characters.

I didn't spend much more than maybe twenty bucks on it so it's not too bad given the partially solid gameplay. But yeah, I'm done with live service bullshit games.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] reev@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

All (or most, don't recognize some) of these are gacha games. You get characters by participating in essentially a slot machine (hence the name "pulling"), more or less. The more powerful characters have lower odds. You can do dailies for pulls or you can spend money to pull more often.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Huh, that sounds like shit. Why would anyone play that?

I know when Factorio introduced quality some people complained it was like gambling, but in Factorio its done at a level where probability just averages out. I want a rare shiny iron plate and 2% of the time I will get one. So if I make 25,000 iron plates per minute I will be getting 500 rare shiny plates a minute.

[–] Xabis@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Why do people gamble? Because that’s what this is.

The companies don’t even care about the average player. They are trying to hook rich people with more money then sense, aka whales.

A long time ago the industry realized an extremely small percent blows way more money than all the others combined.

If you ever played a game with any kind of monitization and asked yourself why everything is $40 and how the average player can afford it, this is why.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

So the 1% are the problem in games as well.

[–] Xabis@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

lol, precisely!

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

EA's Real Racing turned into this pay-to-play shit. I genuinely enjoyed that game back when it came out, then everything started to get monetized and you had to do various things fairly often if you wanted to make any sort of progress.

Why can't I just have a fun realistic racing game that doesn't try to cram "upgrades" that cost real money down my throat?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

I don’t understand people who WILLINGLY install that shit

The ads are everywhere and the games are often F2P - no barrier to download or install. Excellent for hooking younger kids, especially ones whose parents can't or won't give them access to the old fashioned games.

And unlike gambling at a casino, there’s zero chance of you being up money at any point.

Arguably the singular upside. You can coast in a Gacha game without losing a ton of money a lot longer than you'll last in Vegas.