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someone help me understand what gacha is and what it means to these folks in simple terms?
Games with casino style gambling to unlock characters or skins or whatever. Often times you'll have like 1/100 chance to unlock a character you want when opening a "box".
Hugly mobile popular games run like this with new more powerful characters releasing monthly
Another comment explained what it is but to explain where the name comes from, you remember those capsule machines where you had to collect all the toys? Those were called gachapon machines, often shortened to just gacha (i might be slightly wrong on a little bit of the words, but they are the capsule machines)