Aeon Mall de Gachagacha Shiteru Ko - Ch. 2 - A Little While Later

[MangaDex]

 

[ScarecrowB]

She's even learning to gaslight herself to continue her gambling addiction.

 

[Nissedood]

She's even learning to gaslight herself to continue her gambling addiction.

B-but g-gacha goood.
I-it got p-pity so i-its not g-gambling.
*Swipes 1000$/€ to top up to get waifu.

 

[Shamz]

This prickles my heart.

 

[Jatopian]

Don't worry though, it's totally okay for you to spend that money on the WebP anime girl in your phone game, since you can't just buy it at Mercari. Completely different situation. Best possible use of your money. Don't kill me.

 

[GFrost2278]

Yeah gacha is just gambling unless there's a "guarantee"

 

[nueee]

Don't do gacha kids

 

[BakedBanana]

Don't do gacha kids

How did that old saying go? "Drugs are cheaper than gacha."

 

[Robinisback]

She's even learning to gaslight herself to continue her gambling addiction.

90% of gacha users quit just before they're about to get their favourite figurine.

 

[Amusingkiwi]

 

[Punllarena]

Real

 

[goro-goro]

this is something i dont understand about physical gacha, how do you make sure that the thing you want is still inside the gacha pool, you could buy out all the item inside and realize the thing you want is already taken by someone before you

 

[D0ncoming5torm]

get them hooked young

 

[SirJames]

For anyone wondering, if you play a slot machine with 1 percent chance of winning a 100 times, there is only a 63.4 chance of winning at least once.

 

[feha]

I am confused. Is there anyone who has ever non-ironically claimed that gacha isn't pure gambling? It is literally a lottery.

 

[Equilibrium]

Is there anyone who has ever non-ironically claimed that gacha isn't pure gambling?

Other than every gacha game ever?
Or EA games lawyers trying to gaslight the american government calling lootboxes "surprise mechanics"?
I will assume your question was ironic in nature.

 

[feha]

Other than every gacha game ever?
Or EA games lawyers trying to gaslight the american government calling lootboxes "surprise mechanics"?
I will assume your question was ironic in nature.

I was referring to individuals. Like the actual players.
Of course companies (and thus their lawyers) claim that, but that's because companies are intentionally lying and misrepresenting stuff to make profit. And arguably that makes it an ironic statement (technically not, but it falls within the umbrella practically speaking, imo).

 

[Equilibrium]

Gaslight is one hell of a drug.
I heard people say poker and blackjack wasn't gambling due to "skill".

 

[meltworkzz]

one of my friend say gacha is not gambling because no matter what win or not they always give you waifu. but the real gambling give misery when you lose.

*man really addicted to genshin and nikke

 

[sssr]

OK... let's get some context first. Physical gacha machines were originally not intended to function like gambling. In their original '60s form, gacha was meant to be played by a group of friends hanging out in old candy (dagashi) shops who would pool their money to buy one run from a machine then trade between themselves. Physical gacha machines originally had between 4 to 6 variations with a special rare item, unlike modern gacha machines with up to 20 variations. A standard Doraemon gang of 4 kids each turning 3 times could conceivably get all variant items in a machine with a high chance of getting the rare item. They could then trade between themselves and build up their collections that way. Gacha was originally meant to be played as a community-building exercise. I know this because that's how I played it back in the '80s. Old gacha machines were fair. If, for example, the machines had 4 item variations and 30 capsules, there would be 7 of each item in the machine, plus 2 rares. In my 4-friends example, 3 turns each would extract 12 capsules from the machine. It would take really bad luck not to be able to get every variation at that rate.

You may be confused reading this because gashapon is a 1977 Bandai trademark. Yes, but the machines themselves predate the Bandai version. We call them all gacha now for the same reason we call table tennis "ping pong". That's just the dominant brand.

The problem with modern gacha is that it's now targeted at loners with hoarding syndrome and the number of variations and limited items now exceed what can possibly be collected through the old community-sharing method. Plus the machines are now stacked more like digital gacha (with number of each variation in a machine determined by probability functions) than the fairer gacha machines of old. That's why physical gacha items can be monetized so brutally today.