this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2025
328 points (96.1% liked)

Games

37902 readers
924 users here now

Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.

Weekly Threads:

What Are You Playing?

The Weekly Discussion Topic

Rules:

  1. Submissions have to be related to games

  2. No bigotry or harassment, be civil

  3. No excessive self-promotion

  4. Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts

  5. Mark Spoilers and NSFW

  6. No linking to piracy

More information about the community rules can be found here and here.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
shitpostpolice@lemmy.world
Dremor@lemmy.world
328
Almost 19% of Japanese people in their 20s have spent so much money on gacha they struggled with covering living expenses, survey reveals - AUTOMATON WEST (automaton-media.com)
submitted 3 days ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world
86 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I played a gatcha game with a friend when we didn't know what gacha was and we where trying to build our teams by just playing the game and there where always massive difficulty walls that couldn't be passed. So we both ended up spending around $500 CAD on that game and farming with our phones open on the game 24/7. We stopped after we understood how predatory the model was.

[โ€“] Vipsu@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Stopped playing Puzzle and dragons after clearing tower of gods for umpteenth time to "efficiently" consume my stamina so it would not get wasted.

Had this "wtf I am doing with my life moment" as I was no longer having fun and clearing the dungeon over and over was simply booring time waster.

Started ignoring daily login bonuses and only played when there was new content. Soon after that stopped playing all together.