The Genshin Impact Backlash Is Here
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So-called gacha mechanics are central to the blockbuster open-world RPG and many other games from China, Japan, and South Korea. But they've left US players smarting.

Any company that has a product built on recurring payments will always tend towards becoming predatory in the money they need to extract because #1 they need to have pinch points to ensure they get money at regular, predictable intervals since they're a business and #2 because there is absolutely no reason for them not to turn the dial up on the micro-transactions -- up and up -- slowly until the profit gained is cancelled out by the quitting players.

  • bewts [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    I was browsing twitch streams for the game to learn what "end game" looks like... and some weirdass was talking about how he spent 4000$ trying to get the one character unlocked and still didn't get it. I turned the stream off.

    • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      meanwhile here's me spending nothing and playing ~2 hours a day with a good team that easily keeps up with the content at Ar 40