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| Topic | 19% of Japanese people in their 20s are broke from gatcha game spending |
| Tyranthraxus 04/15/25 3:06:15 PM #61: | IMNOTRAGED posted... Anyway, I don't think banning gacha would be any more sensible than banning alcohol or whatever. It's just another form of escapism, you're not addressing the actual issues that are driving people to these sorts of unhealthy behaviors. I also find it a bit odd that American sports games so rarely come up in these discussions given that they're essentially full priced gacha games that reset your "characters" every year. At least from my perspective, gambling has tangible value. If I play the lottery or poker or sports pools or whatever, I can win real money. You cannot win anything in a gacha game except privileges to do things with the software that you've already downloaded. It's a form of gambling where the house literally always wins. People joke that the house always wins but the reality is they only win about 50.2% of the time. Over millions of games, this always averages to profit for the casino, but on an individual per game basis the house does lose. That's not a thing for gacha. They are just robbing you. I really don't see a problem with the games existing as is, if they would just add an al-a-carte store instead of loot box shit. It's not wrong to demand that I know what I'm buying and how much it costs ahead of time. --- It says right here in Matthew 16:4 "Jesus doth not need a giant Mecha." https://i.imgur.com/dQgC4kv.jpg ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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