Gacha thread - How about them rates?

[AMHOLIO]

Genuine question for all the gacha gamers out there: what the hell makes you like gacha? I'm baffled, please enlighten me.

 

[Lonely Grave]

Genuine question for all the gacha gamers out there: what the hell makes you like gacha? I'm baffled, please enlighten me.

it's mostly communities at a social level and abusive relationships (to ourselves) at a personal level.

it's also because we're kind of tired of having to engage with Western gaming with its bipolar tendency between AAA and indie, but we end up cucking ourselves with a worse alternative.

others will point out the 2d/3d waifu appeal but idk that feels a little too simple so choose whatever helps you understand

in the meantime imma use this thread as updates for gachas that don't have their own thread

 

[Golfing on the Moon 1971]

Genuine question for all the gacha gamers out there: what the hell makes you like gacha? I'm baffled, please enlighten me.

I play for the serialized ongoing story. Outside of gachas, only the Trails series and MMOs do that. And the art and the music, which tends to be higher quality. I don't do any of the endgame grind stuff.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Genuine question for all the gacha gamers out there: what the hell makes you like gacha? I'm baffled, please enlighten me.

While different people will have their own answer, at least for me it's the characters. If a gacha has bad characters you won't care about pulling or the plot. It can potentially work on gameplay, but it is almost always degenerate due to endless power creep.

Characters themselves are not necessarily coom materials, like every character in fiction it's enough that they'll be likable with something unique to them.

 

[ZMOT]

Genuine question for all the gacha gamers out there: what the hell makes you like gacha? I'm baffled, please enlighten me.

- it's free
- not pozzed western shit
- free
- perfect sidegames with the right amount of content (usually) and budget
- free
- overarching stories that can stretch months or years like the tv series back in the days, sometimes good enough to discuss it after a patch
- again, free

just because some people spend paychecks on stupid shit has fuck all to do with me (besides funding the game, so thanks I guess), but still less retarded than paying for shit like fifa ultimate teams

 

[AMHOLIO]

Thank you everyone, that did help. Just like non-gacha, there are a lot of reasons it seems.

The only one I don't get is this:

- perfect sidegames with the right amount of content (usually) and budget

Fucking what? I spend a whole week or two grinding a monotonous task out just to get to another task I'm spending at least another 5 monotonous hours grinding out? And even if I get lucky and the time is cut in half, I have to wait another few weeks for an update to drop and spend even MORE time grinding monotonously. I could either crawl inch by inch like a snail to a game that may or may not exist next month... or I could buy a game that has something like that but with an end goal, likely more varied gameplay, and a guarantee of content until an endpoint. Maybe gacha game play improved since then, but even good ones have encouragement to spend money so the time is artificially inflated and I'm left -2 hours I could have been using to play a game that has a better guarantee of my in game stuff not being outclassed to fuck with me or my patience/knowledge of the game being rewards.

Serialized stories where characters, plots, and events develop over time? Totally. Introducing new updates to a game to keep it fresh and have players rethink strategies? Cool. Grinding my ass into oblivion because it's free but I can't get my 5 hours back for some fucking dingleberry or achievement? Shit, I could be playing a rogue-like if I want to challenge my luck like that, and make more progress. At least I know someone isn't trying to get me to pay for their slot machine.

 

[Level99Manchild]

- not pozzed western shit

Valyrie Connect's original translation was ruined by a woke translator because he shoved in memes and diverse accents that weren't in the original Japanese verison. He also made Hel a girlboss and Skuld a retard. Wokelizers/Modernizers are still infecting some gacha games like Dragon Traveler (woke zoomer dialogue). and Dragon Champions (Maga/TDS shit in 2020).

- overarching stories that can stretch months or years like the tv series back in the days, sometimes good enough to discuss it after a patch

Depends on the game. Lost Sword is infamous for its shitty Isekai story that's locked behind ridiculously hard levels even spenders struggled to beat (Lost Sword is a trash-tier gacha). Illusion Connect finished its main story in 20 chapters within 3-9 months of its release, and had side stories to keep the game going. Sino Alice was another bullshit gacha that had an interesting story locked behind retarded p2w walls or some other stupid fomo shit.

Genuine question for all the gacha gamers out there: what the hell makes you like gacha? I'm baffled, please enlighten me.

Being a free game and if it has interesting content, but it's pretty rare for me to keep a gacha game past a year or so. The longest I've played were Dark Summoner, Raid Shadow Legends, Illusion Connect, and Valkyrie Connect. It's a shame you don't see games like Valkyrie Connect or Raid these days (It's mostly the Genshin style nowadays).

Fucking what? I spend a whole week or two grinding a monotonous task out just to get to another task I'm spending at least another 5 monotonous hours grinding out? And even if I get lucky and the time is cut in half, I have to wait another few weeks for an update to drop and spend even MORE time grinding monotonously. I could either crawl inch by inch like a snail to a game that may or may not exist next month... or I could buy a game that has something like that but with an end goal, likely more varied gameplay, and a guarantee of content until an endpoint. Maybe gacha game play improved since then, but even good ones have encouragement to spend money so the time is artificially inflated and I'm left -2 hours I could have been using to play a game that has a better guarantee of my in game stuff not being outclassed to fuck with me or my patience/knowledge of the game being rewards.

Old gacha games would let you grind events if you knew how to do it as a f2p or spender. I didn't spend a dime on Illusion Connect, and got most of my event rewards. It was worse with games like Dark Summoner where you had to gamble or barter with players to get progress cards to get the most out of events. Good fucking trying to be F2p in Raid Shadow Legends.

 

[Shart Attack]

Genshin Impact has entertaining exploration. It lets me climb up to high places and glide back down for miles.

Blue Archive has an entertaining story.

Once in a while, they let me push the button on an in-game Skinner box, and the lights and sounds will tickle my atrophied temporal lobe. If I'm smart with my money, it's completely free. If I'm lucky, an anime girl will appear from the Skinner box and say some stuff in a language I don't understand, which I can only assume are positive affirmations of my worth as a human being.

I can think of worse ways to pass the time.