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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

what was your experience, if you don't mind me asking? what game snared you?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fire Emblem Heroes. The game portion was nearly perfect pocket FE. But of course that was all just a wrapper for the gacha, and it only took a few months of playing before I cracked open the wallet. It's just a few bucks, the game was free, what's the harm? Things just went downhill from there. Rationally, I knew it was madness. I kept a spreadsheet tracking spend and results. And I knew that odds of rolling someone new went from bad to worse the more complete my roster got, but the hooks were in deep. It got BAD.

Took me a year and a half to delete my account, and just as long to dig myself out of the financial crater my face made.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Yeah, that's how it goes. Glad you got out when you did.