[New Gacha Policy Discussion]

8 minutes ago, DeeJay Peapod said:

Look if this is based on the lootcrate scandal then shame on you, the differences as slight as they are are still night and day between gachas, gachas are more like the sticker machine or the gumball machine, and anyone arguing that fact needs to look at the facts. I saw earlier that someone states that gumball machines don't use basically a random number generator based on rarity which is simply not the case, gumball machines just happen to use a very primitive version of this. the rarity on the items inside the gumball machine is varied by how many of each type of item exists within. As the mechanism inside the gumball machine it jumbles up the little plastic eggs further creating a sense of random ness and variance while the ones at the top sometimes the more rare ones don't move. At least with a gacha machine its purely random based on odds and RNG. Again you also know what you have a chance of getting based on the image. Where as lootcrate you had gotten items based on a category or theme and the variance in objects content and count was much wider as apposed to a gumball or gacha machine. So why not ban pre sales on well pretty much anything not limited to but including video games? I mean we know game companies half the time cant be trusted, so why is this practice allowed to continue? Your still ordering something based on a theme or a category in this case it just happens to be an RPG, or FPS, or survival game. you still dont know the contents of said game. you are in fact taking a gamble that the company gave you something good and not garbage. but as with gachas isn't good vs garbage only relative to the person playing?

so many words, yet nothing of substance

[New Gacha Policy Discussion]

7 minutes ago, Torric Rodas said:

How about a hover text:  Current Prize is:   "whatever"  .. up to the user if they pay 50L for what is shown.

They may have to play umpteen times until the prize they want comes up..  but you could never say it was random, since the resident would know exactly what they were purchasing each time they pay the machine.

just offer the items each at a fair price and stop shaking people down for their lindos

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5 minutes ago, DeeJay Peapod said:

With most gachas they provide a picture correct? ergo by that thought, you can see what you have a chance of getting, its not like they are taking your money and not giving anything in return you are still getting something back. and with all things if you want it bad enough youll do it anyways...or you can just scour the market for resellers...its not the gacha fault or the creator...."predatory gachas" falls down to the person who decided to play or not to play the machine. sometimes its just the thrill of it...

lol just start making normal packs and stop shaking down whales

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Just now, DeeJay Peapod said:

the problem with that logic is there are plenty of stores that do this at 4 to 5 times the cost without it even being "predatory gambling" so why not go after them too?

The difference, and this is an important one, is that the buyer knows exactly what they are getting.

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5 minutes ago, Pixie Kobichenko said:

I always explained-equated gachas to a bubble gum machine.

You know for a quarter you will get a gum ball, but not the color-flavor.  I never felt it was gambling because gambling involves risk of loosing money, where as you get a prize every try with gachas.  
I know my opinion is my own & that there must be reasons the decision was made.  Just =/ to see they’ll be gone.

In a lot of cases, these gachas were like those quarter machines... but each play only got you part of one of the toys and you had to keep playing until you could assemble the toy

[New Gacha Policy Discussion]

Bye bye, predatory gambling~!

I liked the fun toys, but when creators stuff entire outfit collections, broken up by part and colour, it was a bridge too far. Pure scum.

Time to stop holding whales upside down and shaking all of their lindos out.

[What do I need to know as a consumer?]

Boo, so that means all my applier stuff is gonna be basically worthless come BoM

 

Okay, some of my most used tattoos have system layers included, so I'm not gonna panic too much. But also a lot of the smaller ones I have don't. Sucks.

[What do I need to know as a consumer?]

If I don't have old system layer stuff, can I just use this Omega BOM with my Omega relays to transfer newer applier stuff to the bake layer?

I'm really excited about being able to mix and match a lot of the tattoos and freckles I have but never been able to combine.