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.

  • Yun [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    The consequence of not spending money and playing Hearthstone is constantly losing to stupidly powerful rare cards, no matter how you build your deck or play the game (ime, maybe I just suck idk)

    Yeah, as a former legend/somewhat competitive f2p player, it's either spend money or spend time grinding arena/dailies for gold/dust (what I did) to be able to build all the meta decks and useful tech cards. Although to be fair, if you're just going for a decently high rank and not aiming to compete in tournaments, you really only need one top tier meta deck but even then that could require a hefty amount of resources to craft.