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Anon is not satisfied (files.catbox.moe)

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[–] Samdell@lemmy.eco.br 24 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I think more masturbation would fix this.

[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 10 hours ago

And ditch the gatcha games, and play DOOM 2 mods or lauch a number of Minecraft modpacks through PolyMC

[–] match@pawb.social 3 points 20 hours ago

yeah, get some xxl woofia dailies in there

[–] BootyEnthusiast@lemmy.dbzer0.com 94 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Dude needs to stop playing predatory gacha games.

I don't understand people who WILLINGLY install that shit. They KNOW how they work and are monetized. And unlike gambling at a casino, there's zero chance of you being up money at any point.

[–] Mustakrakish@lemmy.world 17 points 21 hours ago

I think of them as "Gotcha!" games, cause their point is to trick you.

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 13 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Addiction doesn't really care about this kind of logic.

[–] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works -3 points 5 hours ago

gambling isn't an addiction, it's a lifestyle.

[+] EvilEdgelord@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

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[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 day ago (4 children)

That feels an awful lot like saying opiates are fine just don’t get addicted. It’s easy to say when you aren’t susceptible, but clearly some people are and it’s not very productive to be dismissive of the primary way they make money.

[–] NIB@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A better comparison would be alcohol. Many of people consume alcohol but very few people become alcoholics. Maybe it is genetic predisposition or environmental/mental factors that lead people to abusing it.

Similarly with gachas, millions of people play them as free to play, without ever spending money. A lot of people spend 10-20€ a month and very few people spend hundreds or thousands of euro every month.

As far as honkai star rail is concerned, i enjoy the story, environments, music and the characters and i recommend it. You dont need to spend and you can do everything(or miss like 5% of the rewards, if you dont want to tryhard) without ever spending money.

The main selling point of the game is the story and you can do that with any characters. If you dont want to participate in the endgame, you can ignore it. Ultimately it is a singleplayer turned based "rpg", though it is actually just an anime+idle game. Every 40 days, you get a new episode/season.

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

You can still be addicted, even of you don't spend a dime.

[–] NIB@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Sure but then you only waste your time. Some more casual gachas, like star rail, are deliberately designed to be casual, in order to increase their retention rate(ie keep most of the players playing in the long term). They dont require much time daily(you can afk do the dailies in the background within 5mins) and while there is replayable content, it isnt necessary and eventually you will be done with that too.

Some gachas are more hardcore, demanding more time, which enables them to have a smaller pool of players who are more dedicated(ie less likely to quit because of sunk cost).

I assume addiction rates are higher on those gachas, then again mainstream casual gachas like star rail, have tens of millions of players, so maybe they have more "addicted" players(total, not as a percentage).

[–] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

I think there may be a slight difference between doing heroin and playing a video game where you get anime girls by chance.

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They are not a great analogy because they at least have a legit use in medicine.

That said, not really sure what the best analogy for SAAS slot machines would be. Even playing them for free you still have the sensation of pulling down on the device (phone screen/machine lever) and then the "spin" with variable rate rewards.

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 2 points 20 hours ago

They do, but given everything Purdue’s done I felt it was fitting. Fine as a concept, awful when the sole goal is extracting money.

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Because your top level comment makes sense while the rest of your replies devolved into a caps-locked crash out aimed at anything resembling nuance. Now I'm more convinced you're 14.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago

I was going to say YEAH! but then remembered I was addicted to World of Warcraft from 2006 to 2017 and then ~~relapsed~~ started playing again in 2019 after WoW classic came out and every now and then something wriggles in my brain to say you should sign up again, it'll be fun

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Exactly. I have been gaming for decades, yet I never played any of these. Only heard of WOW and Apex Legends out of all the names, no idea what the rest are.

It is possible to spend your money and time on games that provide the entertainment you’re looking for, but not exploit you.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Gacha?

[–] reev@sh.itjust.works 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

All (or most, don't recognize some) of these are gacha games. You get characters by participating in essentially a slot machine (hence the name "pulling"), more or less. The more powerful characters have lower odds. You can do dailies for pulls or you can spend money to pull more often.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Huh, that sounds like shit. Why would anyone play that?

I know when Factorio introduced quality some people complained it was like gambling, but in Factorio its done at a level where probability just averages out. I want a rare shiny iron plate and 2% of the time I will get one. So if I make 25,000 iron plates per minute I will be getting 500 rare shiny plates a minute.

[–] Xabis@lemmy.world 1 points 37 minutes ago (1 children)

Why do people gamble? Because that’s what this is.

The companies don’t even care about the average player. They are trying to hook rich people with more money then sense, aka whales.

A long time ago the industry realized an extremely small percent blows way more money than all the others combined.

If you ever played a game with any kind of monitization and asked yourself why everything is $40 and how the average player can afford it, this is why.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 minutes ago

So the 1% are the problem in games as well.

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I played Arknights for a bit because there's actually a pretty solid tower defense game in there. There's not a big selection of good games for Android and I wanted something I could play when I have no laptop with me.

Unfortunately the good gameplay is buried under tons of attention hogging gacha bullshit.

I stopped playing once I realized that I was spending more time doing chores than actually playing through interesting content. Also, while the BGM is nothing short of lavish, the presentation of the story is like a very cheap VN, which basically killed any hope of getting engaged in the story or the characters.

I didn't spend much more than maybe twenty bucks on it so it's not too bad given the partially solid gameplay. But yeah, I'm done with live service bullshit games.

[–] maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world 70 points 1 day ago

You could get a job, work less, and get paid for it...

[–] ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world 15 points 22 hours ago

Someone should shop in the new horse girl gacha game into this greentext.

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 49 points 1 day ago

All work and no pay...

[–] LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

Game better, nerd

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 18 hours ago

I mean, trans-lesbianism is right there ... OP could be doing all of this, with "just good friends"!!

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe anon should get some better games

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

Maybe anon should touch grass

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

What kind of time warp are you in? Just doing WoW dailies took all day and made me realize I was wasting my life.

[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca -3 points 21 hours ago

And we wonder why Jordan Peterson telling someone like this to make their bed blows their whole mind.