Topic: Gacha Game - page 2. (Read 684 times)

Gacha games are quite popular lately, I saw my nephew is very addicted to playing the game, he plays through his android phone, I once asked my nephew, what game do you play, Gacha, he said, what made you so enthusiastic about playing the game.

He said Gacha game, random game can spend money by buying cards or packs and complete challenges, after that I saw how they play, I'm starting to worry about the Gacha game, the game is easy to access via mobile, they play buying rolls without anyone knowing, especially parents, this game is very risky to kids nowadays, for me the game is a misleading practice, kids can spend thousands of dollars with random items available in Gacha game, In my opinion gacha games are not good to play, games drain money, (even) these games have mastered 80% of children in all countries.

I can relate to that. My whole POV is based on the game of PubG. It's a very famous game as we all know and I have heard so many cases in my country related to this game.
I have seen how people are glued to their mobile phones all day long and heard cases in news that some kids spent huge money for in game purchases.
Some stole money from their home to buy the in game items. This is why I think all those people who don't have self control over a game are basically addicted to it.

It depends on the level you are aiming for. If you just want to play comfortably and speed up your progress a little, then buying boosters (or any of their equivalents that are basically the same in every game) is pretty cheap. But if you aim to be in the top, then in this case, spending can grow to infinite values - there will always be someone who will spend more money and we are talking about tens of thousands of dollars. If I'm not mistaken, the top donator at Diablo Immortal spent over $100k.

Yes and one good example of this is Mir4 an MMORPG game. I am not part of their team whatsoever but I had been playing it for a year.
It may not be a gacha game where there is a toy vending machine like in the new Ragnarok that came out but there's also pulling or summoning items where there's a chance for good items to come out. Many players spend their money here.
The good part, you can make your character an NFT with just hitting a certain level requirement and power score then some processing fees which is not that high.
You can still play it as NFT or you could register it in the market to be bought by anyone in a secured way.
Trust me, I have seen scams happen to sell just Gmail accounts on a Facebook page, it's not a fun ending for the new player who just wants to enjoy the game with an instant strong character.

I agree with you as I'm like that sometimes to the game I really love and am interested in.

Even without expecting money in return, it's really tempting to gamble some money on gacha game.

And what a wonderful experience if I was able to get what I want. Truly a good experience.

Big spender = official server
Donator = private server

Being a donator is not actually a gamble because what they spend will always have sure special items in return. Different from gacha feature where even whales or big spender players spend thousands of $$$, still their desired items are hard to reach.

Honestly, it's even more expensive to play in gacha compare to the usual gambling we have known for.

Way back then, you will be called as donator if you bought an in game items I remember the game Ran online here which I’m addicted to before. Well, gamers understand the risk and many still want to spend their money for the items that can make their character more better, we might not understand them but this is how they played the game.

As long as you spend an amount that has no guarantee if it creates profits or not, then that mostly fall into gambling. But having this gacha game, it’s quite different since you are gambling to win for some items, and not for money or profits. Maybe the reason why only few gamblers engaged in this, aside from having the fact that only big time gamblers can afford this, this kind of game might be a little boring compared to some gambling games we always play in casinos or online sites.

Gambling is a form of entertainment where you spend money and hope that you can win money I consider these games sort of gambling as you spend money to get entertained and hope that you'll get something to get in this case its not money but status
its also addictive like gambling because dopamine is also in effect on these games

If you're a dedicated gamer you will likely get addicted to this and spend money to get satisfied with your status in the community, it's a sort of gambling also as all the elements similar to gambling are all here, but the rewards are not monetary but items to add status to your character.

If you are asking if the person is addicted or not then I would definitely say yes because if that person is spending huge amount just for in game items then he must really be addicted to the game.
We can surely play games to an extent and buy some instore items but spending huge amount is something that only an addict would do.
It might also be a choice by preference but that is something when you are a millionaire and you don't know what else to do with your money.

It depends on the person who owns it and what type of value that a person think about it where the value of the account could be monetary value, functional value, social value and psychological value.

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I understand why you don't consider it as gambling because you can't win money unless you sell the account which I think reason of that or I may be wrong about it. I have seen it myself where a person created multiple accounts where he spend money to those accounts for a chance to win cool items or skins and then he sell it more than the money he spend which is profitable for him or some even found some bugs to exploit just to be able to get the desired items which the cost of getting the item is low compared to not exploiting bugs or issues (That's years ago to be exact and that's a different story). Anyway, gambling is not all about risking your money to earn money. To be exact, gambling has different types as I call it. The quote below will explain why I consider this as gambling.

As you can see, the second is about "take risky action in the hope of a desired result" and when it comes to gacha game and other similar games where you can spend money to buy in-game currency that can only be acquired by paying real money which the in-game currency will be use to buy items hoping (taking the risk) you will get the item you desired.

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That matter aside, I really do understand why you don't consider it as gambling as you have your own reasons why but to make things clear as much possible, the reason why I consider it as gambling is explained above. You have your own reason and I have my own. As you can see some people also considered it as gambling and some people are also the same as you. What I noticed many times is that most people will think right away that it is a chance of earning money by risking your own money when they hear/read the word gambling.

By the way, this is a good way to fight the urge to spend money on a Gacha game (at least it works for me). When I google videos or reddit pages or discord channels where whales post their records, I get a complete understanding that no matter how long I play and no matter how much I spend (to the best of my modest abilities), I will never compare with them. So I think - oh, to hell with it, I will play without spending money and without much effort, just for fun.

I guess, it can be considered as borderline gambling as these gacha games or mini game from various games. Since the reward isn't monetary but some of it has value outside the game which can be traded from one player to another. However, most games doesn't allow transaction outside the platform to avoid this but still there are some games that allow them to be sold such as games from steam.

I don't consider it as gambling since there is no way to win money from it unless I plan to sell my account for profit. Or if that game is able to withdraw some money then it can consider gambling but if not it will just be a game with buy in options like how some applications have when you want to access some features of that app. Though many is interested in such games that builds the character and some might sell their account once it is high rank.

If I'd like the game so much I would likely get out money to support the game, and sometimes just to fast track the way I would get stronger on that certain game, If I would like any certain games I would anticipate getting much money just to get an item or a hero, just like what I did with the Marvel Future Fight game there are premium heroes that you can surely choose, but there are Gacha items that are likely very hard to get because of the Gacha system involve, so I rather pay for certain Items that I surely like and will likely get those specific items than getting items at random, there are certain Gachas like these,

But there are Gacha games that can likely pay you as well you can likely pay for certain characters or items for you to get with Random Gacha but you can choose to get their NFT heroes or just sell the in-game currency that could likely exchange as real money if you reach a certain point of value,


It could surely lead to that and this is another kind of gambling but instead of a chance to get real money you can have a chance to get premium items of heroes instead, it will surely depend on the people playing it if they would become addicted to it or not, for certain people it would like to make the game easier if they can get certain Premium items but there are also players that would like just stay as free to play they would likely get addicted to the game but will have 2nd thoughts on giving money just to play random Gacha in-game,

NFT will really be a game changer once AAA game companies starts to adopt to that type of technology. It will provide security to both side of buyer and seller of the account so no scam will happen. It will also open an idea to the game developers where they can create NFT items that players can use in the game or sell it to other player in exchange for a cryptocurrency where they can sell it on some DEX to receive real money.

It's fun, but at least they can calculate how much money they spend buying characters or other equipment that can support their game. Although I've never played this type of game, I compared it to other strategy games with almost the same type of character or equipment and I found that in several people who played the game. They buy many items so they can be at the top of the game and beat their opponents easily. And games are designed to make people addicted and if there is a gambling factor, this will keep them from leaving the game, even if they have gained something from the game.

Gambling is not always about winning fiat money. 

The goal of the player can be to win fiat money, cryptocurrencies and NFTs.  Theoretically, even the lives of the players themselves can be a win in the game. 

Such games of chance were common in the distant past.  For example, the ancient Aztecs played football with human heads, and the members of the losing team were killed.

As far as games where the game item is the payoff, the game item can be thought of as nft.  NFT will become a very common financial asset in the future. 

And, probably, it will be very interesting for people to receive nft as a prize, and not fiat money.

The key word here is uncertainty or luck, if you're going to get an item and you have to bet or fight for it to get that item it's from gambling, gamers have a strategy and plan to get the items or where they are if there are bets to get there or putting money to attain something
If there are no returns on their investment in a form of money and there's uncertainty to get those rewards it is a form of gambling because there's not much different from gambling in the casino you are uncertain to get rewards and you spend money to reach your level.

You may not want to do that.
Buying accounts is prone to scams because most of them are bound to the e-mail address which means the seller can still access it by using a secret phrase to recover the mail and then the gacha account.

This is where NFT will be a great help because of the market it provides where the seller will have no authority with the account anymore once he registered the account to the market. IMO, that's the safest way to buy an account or if you really know the person who is selling.