[KaoruAoiShiho]

Do people like "gacha"? I thought people played games for the game experience, story, etc, and the gacha is just the monetization mechanic. It's like making a big deal out of paying $20 bucks a month, or buying loads of DLCs for example.

[mghackerlady]

I can only speak for the 2 gacha games I'm familiar with (genshin impact and love and deepspace, neither of which I play but know people who do)

In genshins case, that's an alright game aside from the gacha mechanics. People like it because of the cast of characters that can only be unlocked via gambling for them. Everyone has a favorite and sees cool fanart online and then wants to have them.

Love and deepspace on the other hand, is pretty much propped up on sex appeal. Women will spend embarrassing amounts of money for media that prioritises their desires over what men think they want. I should know, I am one (despite not having played love and deepspace because of the gacha mechanics, I do like otome games)

[Iron_Ninja5]

Do people like slot machines at casinos?

[bcjdjsndon]

At least money falls out of a slot machine... This is just rolling a dice and seeing what number you get. Seriously, that's all it was for me... where are the battles people spoke about?

[ThrowawayR2]

You'd be surprised. In the mobile app stores, there are slot machine simulator games that are licensed reproductions of popular physical slot machines but don't pay out any actual money. They play all the visuals and sound effects of a win that the physical machine would if the player spins a winning combination and award virtual currency for more spins. Despite this, they rake in absurd revenue from people spending real currency to play beyond the daily free allotment of spins.

[bcjdjsndon]

No I get the fruit machine emulators, I used to play them, paying for it might have been a step too far tho

[nosrepa]

You have to play for longer.

[xboxnolifes]

I've seen people stop wanting to play a game after they removed gacha mechanics for their monetization in favor of just a skin shop. There are legitimate addicts.

[bcjdjsndon]

> gacha mechanics

*gambling. It's been around centuries, nothing new

[xboxnolifes]

Sometimes it's useful to create more specific terminology. When i say gacha, people who know what gacha games are know that I'm not talking about plain lootboxes, or slot machines, or blackjack, or dice games.

[ydj]

I think some people do like the collection mechanics. And some games require specific team comps in order to beat the harder content.

[legacynl]

It basically functions the same way as gambling machines. There's a hook that gets people to play, and then the game itself uses psychological techniques to keep people playing, like increasing the time between payouts (or level ups).

[LAAGU]

idk i just like to play stuff like this where there is a random chance to get something rare

[bcjdjsndon]

> to get something rare

It's only rare cos they programmed the drop rate. Might as well sit rolling a dice and trying to guess the numbers.

Makes you wonder why they never added any rng into chess, ya know, to keep the player base "engaged"

[v64]

> Makes you wonder why they never added any rng into chess, ya know, to keep the player base "engaged"

arguably this is why Chess960 was created

[bcjdjsndon]

Dang, didn't realise that had been done. i did mean like you start with pawns and have to acquire the better pieces like rooks and bishops etc, or you can buy chess credits and spend them on two queens at once or sommething

[KaoruAoiShiho]

Then that's just a video game might as well as play a video game why limit yourself to still confined to the rules of chess.

[v64]

And that video game is called Gambonanza [1]

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/3509230/Gambonanza/

[bcjdjsndon]

You mean like add skins?