DeeJay Peapod

I am actually right there with you, but at the same time...when you buy lindens...arent you essentially getting nothing back...well nothing tangible XD

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...

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?

but as someone stated before they are basically like the gumball machines outside stores with the random little prizes....they still havent banned those

The problem I see reading this, is they claim it violates the "games of chance" ruling they made a few years ago. Which I don't exactly see how. A game of chance is a game in which you have a "Chance" to lose and a "chance" to win. A gacha unless its a really really bad cheaply done gacha is not that. As with anything especially in second life value of what something is worth is only deemed by how the creator views it, or the reseller of said gacha. That means the creator believed that their common items within said gacha are at base value of what they believed the item was worth or may even sell for in store, its not like you pay a gacha machine and run the chance of getting nothing back, you always end up getting something back.