Community Manager Linden Lab Posted August 2, 2021 Community Manager Share Posted August 2, 2021 For details about our new policy change regarding gacha, read our blog post. For further questions, please join the conversation in this post. ***UPDATE: Due to the sheer volume of responses, it will be difficult for us to attempt to answer all questions in this thread in a systematic way, so we will put put together an FAQ and update the main blog post with it shortly. 11 20 3 4 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miku Bloodrose Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 We must remove all gachas from our store? 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garnet Psaltery Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 6 minutes ago, Miku Bloodrose said: We must remove all gachas from our store? The article tells you what you need to do and when. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claw Streeter Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 7 minutes ago, Miku Bloodrose said: We must remove all gachas from our store? you can resell exisiting gacha's providing the buyer knows exactly what they are getting. But yes all Gacha machines will need to cease 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dictatorshop Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 Wow, let the screaming begin. The end of the month seems awfully short! What about places like the Arcade which are ALL gacha? That isn't nearly long enough for them to change gears. I hardly have any so as a merchant this really wont affect me but I am really feeling sorry for those for whom it is a major revenue stream. 33 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aire Xaris Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 So Kudos to the person that comes out with the Normal Vendor and sells the actual product pictured on vendor face and calls it Gotcha, I guess. I don't understand yet how this violated gaming, I haven't read that mess since like 2011, 12 maybe but I DID enjoy Gachas and thought it was a pretty cool marketing tool in SL, but like pretty much everything else over the years, Did and use to, seem to be the most used descriptives when it comes to marketplace. 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anabelle Marquis Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 (edited) can we break apart our gachas and sell regularly? I don't see why not Edited August 2, 2021 by Anabelle Marquis 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Linda Reddevil Posted August 2, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 2, 2021 5 minutes ago, Claw Streeter said: But yes all Gacha machines will need to cease Finally!!!! 60 12 11 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Leonid Covfefe Posted August 2, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 2, 2021 I fully support this decision, it is about time this game cracked down on gambling! These gachas have been addicting to so many people, so glad Linden Labs will no longer enable this. 63 3 8 5 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teresa Firelight Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 goodness.. this seems so extreme. I have several gacha Hair out .. if I understand correctly, people can resell gachas that have already been purchased but we cant use gacha machines to see them anymore -- is that correct? But we can sell items that were once in gachas as long as they are in clearly marked vendors so people know what they are buying?? Did the higher powers somehow decide that gachas are too much like gambling? is that the reason behind this? 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polenth Yue Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 6 minutes ago, Anabelle Marquis said: can we break apart our gachas and sell regularly? Yep, they're not stopping regular selling of things. It's the sales method ending, not the items. I really hope people do this as I liked all the little pets and weird things people put in gachas. I'd pay more to get copy/no trans versions of the ones I really want rather than having to go random for a transfer one. 32 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bridge McMahon Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 What would have prompted this ruling and seems there will be a lot less revenue for Linden's from the sales, resales and events so it must be a good one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post AyelaNewLife Posted August 2, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 2, 2021 This is a good thing, and will finally put to bed the dishonest delusions from certain parts that gachas were anything other than exploitative unregulated gambling. 56 7 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Orwar Posted August 2, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 2, 2021 This may well have been the best thing to happened since the fall of the Berlin wall. I'm ecstatic. 64 5 17 4 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackTheOtterFox Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 This is amazing news. Really, really glad to be reading this! You have my full support on this decision, and I know countless of others that would agree with me on that. 41 1 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kokiron Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 "Ok team, how can we make Second Life even more dead?" 🤦There goes most of the popular shopping events. 27 7 12 8 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VicariousSally Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 What about gacha resellers through marketplace? How will this impact our MP as its NOT a chance sell like the gacha machine itself.... 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwenting Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 Just now, Bridge McMahon said: What would have prompted this ruling and seems there will be a lot less revenue for Linden's from the sales, resales and events so it must be a good one. gachas are gambling, just as are lootboxes in mobile games. That's illegal according to the law of several countries LL operates in, and seriously frowned upon in many others. What surprises me is how it took them so long. Maybe they finally got a cease and desist letter from the EU. 36 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post SarahThe Wanderer Posted August 2, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 2, 2021 This is good news, bye bye gacha, you will not be missed. 64 5 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RexBoye Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 This is going to irreparably harm a massive portion of the incredibly dedicated and hardworking creative community of this game that earns your company it's income. You owe them at least a reason. Livelihoods will be harmed and a month is not long enough. 17 6 12 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cyr Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 1 minute ago, Bridge McMahon said: What would have prompted this ruling and seems there will be a lot less revenue for Linden's from the sales, resales and events so it must be a good one. As I understand it, there are legal issues here, or coming very soon, in several large jurisdictions domestically and internationally in which SL operates. Their hand is basically forced here, don't blame them. 29 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lillani Lowell Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 For people who haven't been paying much attention to the gaming atmosphere... Government regulatory bodies have been criticially eyeing loot boxes as the gambling mechanisms they are and starting to enforce new regulations on them in various countries; and gachas are, basically, the exact same thing as a loot box. So, I would imagine that is what is behind this decision. It's better to be ahead of the curve than behind it. 40 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slenderman Grumpypants Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 4 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aria Aurelia Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 Interesting that you guys are doing this now but it will encourage more people to buy the fatpacks. What surprises me is how long it took you guys to finally actually do this! 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Mote Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 I don't keep up with this stuff that closely, but from what I've read Europe is looking to crack down more on addictive gameplay(which is not quite the same as "gambling" imo), but I presume that's the regulatory climate they're referring to, and was only a matter of time. Or the regulations could be something more closely related to Tilia. 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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