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Almost 19% of Japanese people in their 20s have spent so much money on gacha they struggled with covering living expenses, survey reveals (automaton-media.com)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I can not fathom the idea of spending that much on gacha

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I can't fathom the idea of wanting to play that garbage, let alone spend money on micro-transactions in it, but maybe that's just me, maybe my brain isn't smooth enough to find games like that stimulating and entertaining.

Probably also the same reason all the people who have tried and to get me addicted to gambling have failed.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

A lot of "that garbage" has better game design than some western "triple AAA titles" which a lot of are also filled with micro transations.

Especially Genshin which is shown in the article has so much content and still receives updates every 6 weeks. Every 6 weeks there is 1 or 2 new characters, a new region, new story, new orchestrated music, new events and so much more.

It is absolutely just to hate microtransactions but calling every game you don't like garbage is like a child hating broccoli because a character in a TV show does. There is still incredible effort to make a somewhat good game, even in F2P Gachas or Fortnite for that matter.

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