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Surely we can choose to expand the "men" category, if we judge it would best achieve fairness to female athletes.

Just curious, where are you going with that? What's the point you're trying to make?

YES, YES!, YES, YES, OOOOOOOOO YES!!!!!

Creators - and by extension us consumers - are about to find out. I, too, am looking forward to September, but I'm also a bit nervous. 10,000L$ for a fatpack? Hell no. Thing is, at that price, creators don't need that many customers, and I have no doubt they will find them. So...too bad for the rest of us?

That's interesting, I didn't know that. As far as I'm concerned, we as a society need far more conversations around the issues.

I just wanted to say I don't understand the above line. I could have used a "confused" emoji face on your post, but that felt a bit too dismisssive. Also wanted to add - maybe instead of having 2 categories based on sex, there could be a range of categories based on more specific criteria specific to the given sport. In weightlifting, weight and muscle density for example.

Who's limiting? Laurel Hubbard could have competed in the men's category (except that he probably wouldn't have qualified). There's a reason most sports are sex-segregated. We probably need a third category, but I doubt that's workable.

Well, I kinda agree with that bit at least to an extent, but I guess it's easier to have a sledgehammer approach. And the regulation that's coming is to stop that way of selling entirely. But wether I agree or not is irrelevant, anyway. The regulatory environment is what it is, and LL have to err on the side of caution, it'd be commercial suicide on their part not to.

Yeah, but you could have gotten 4 of the same tops, all the same colour. At average (old) gacha prices, that would be around betwen 250l$ and 500 L$. For one top. If you're lucky, you're happy with the colour. (If you're not...tough luck, eh?) Which you might still deem good value, and that's your prerogative. But you had no way to know. How is that not a gamble???

Wanna bet?

Buy full perm models and make it yours with your own textures? Full perm models are not just for reselling.

Maybe. Possibly. But you never know what somebody's circumstances are. Maybe they needed the money to pay for medical bills, or something. (Then again, of course, maybe not.) Money's nice. Honestly, if I was them and had found a way to make lots of (relatively speaking) money... I'm not sure I wouldn't do it. Though I hope I'd be smart enough to have a backup plan (and a high interest savings account...not there are any of those left...)

I'm neither a gacha seller or a gacha customer, but I'm willing to bet the honest answer is: because they can make (far?) more money that way. I don't know how much more, but I must say this thread has been quite the eye opener...

That's not a bad thing, I think. For me as a buyer, it's much nicer to be able to buy the item I want without faffing about with random outcomes. I do think it could have been achieved by mandating that anything that could be bought from a gacha should also be on sale in the regular way (at a reasonable price - and I'm aware that "reasonable" is a subjective term). Seems to me that would please both the set of people who enjoy the gambling aspect and those who don't, but, eh, I don't make the rules.

And I'd add: prices not to be more than - say - 10L or 20L or something equally low, to minimise losses to the buyer. How's that?