[mrguyorama]

The Minish cap had a gacha machine, it was cute. The important part is you can't use real money on it, which means it HAS to be designed as an actual in game reward.

Nintendo's actual microtransaction garbage is the amiibos, which are shameless and often explicitly pay to win.

[hammyhavoc]

Minish Cap was 2004 before we had a better understanding of what is and is not a good thing to expose people to.

Pokemon Masters is literally a gacha game. The Nintendo theme park will probably have gachapon machines in it now kids are softening to the mechanism of it.

[mrguyorama]

But this game doesn't

Which is what you were asserting. Gambling with fake money is a lot more fun to non-addicts than real gambling, especially because the system is usually rigged in your favor so you enjoy it instead of optimizing for tickling a broken reward system in your brain so you give a billion dollar corporation every dollar you have.

As others have stated, those machines are designed to give you the stuff, not to take your resources. That's not gacha.

[rideontime]

It's so weird that this commenter seems to understand what a "gacha game" is while, in the same breath, claiming that Minish Cap is one.

[skyyler]

It's hard to imagine a Japanese theme park without gachapon machines...