@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 29 days agoAlmost 19% of Japanese people in their 20s have spent so much money on gacha they struggled with covering living expenses, survey reveals - AUTOMATON WESTautomaton-media.comexternal-linkmessage-square66fedilinkarrow-up1131cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•28 days agoI play a gacha game and have spent $0 on it. But I can imagine that sort of psychological insulation is not quite so common.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•28 days agoI feel like that’s a hard thing to do. Most of the gatcha games I’ve interacted with hide core game mechanics behind gatcha pay walls. The real issue in gatcha is that many games require money to make actual progress.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•28 days agoWhen that’s characters, I just accept it. Like, “Oh, I guess I don’t get to try out this character? I’ll level up others instead and see how well I can do.”
I play a gacha game and have spent $0 on it. But I can imagine that sort of psychological insulation is not quite so common.
I feel like that’s a hard thing to do. Most of the gatcha games I’ve interacted with hide core game mechanics behind gatcha pay walls.
The real issue in gatcha is that many games require money to make actual progress.
When that’s characters, I just accept it. Like, “Oh, I guess I don’t get to try out this character? I’ll level up others instead and see how well I can do.”