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  1. I do have an issue with events, but it's not exactly the same issue. I don't like how many there are and how many of them are more or less the same. If there were fewer of them and with more variety I think that would be nice, but that's not really something within anyone's control unless LL bans events, but I doubt that'll ever happen, nor do I think it's necessary. I highly doubt SL will ever collapse without an alternative and as of yet all attempts to create alternatives have failed beyond maybe IMVU. But even IMVU is incomparable to SL and would leave many of SL users unsatisfied if they were to try it, many even came to SL from IMVU due to how IMVU is. I feel the only way SL were to collapse is if it either becomes far too expensive for everyone, which is incredibly unlikely, or of LL shut down SL themselves, which I doubt will happen in the forseeable future without them creating an alternative. Which they have tried and failed at least twice now. And if any alternative happens the good and bad will just transfer over to there along with the users. I really don't believe enough people will leave SL for it to be discontinued without an alternative virtual platform. I don't understand "a large segment of the buying community are those that create here." In all likelihood it's at most below 50%. There aren't going to be enough creators or customers leaving SL due to the gacha ban for it to destroy SL on the whole. Enough creators will make enough of a profit. That wont change due to pretty much everything in the above paragraph. People like SL enough, both as creators, customers, and otherwise, that the only thing the gacha ban will due is ruin a few wallets who wont adapt to regular sales and cause them to seek money outside of SL. Which I'd rather that than have them continue to take advantage of people's addictions/desires/etc.
  2. I started saying something here and forgot to continue on it. Buying stuff on SL, buying stuff in general, gives people a thrill/dopamine release/etc. I don't have as much of a problem with that, I don't necessarily think that that is the issue here. I think the issue is taking advantage of that. Gachas and gambling take advantage of that. An addiction is still an addiction, but there's a difference between a shopping addiction and a gambling addiction. I guess you could argue that sales and events contribute to shopping addictions similarly to how gachas contribute to gambling addictions but I think it's a lot less toxic.
  3. Well yeah, of course that's the case. But there's a difference between playing a gacha and buying a product directly. And the experience of what will likely happen with the conveyor belt idea will definitely be a source of complaint for a lot of people who do engage in it, if it catches on enough. It might even be more frustrating than gachas, depending on how the individual store sets their machines up. Also to say most played 2k for one or two items is a little bit of an understatement. Some people definitely can limit themselves (to 2k or any other number) but a lot cannot. And sure they may make some of that back through reselling but the majority of that money is lost. As for creators making less of a profit because of the gacha ban... Good? I mean, it sucks for people's personal situations but the entire concept of gachas is scummy to begin with and while there are some who wont agree with me I feel that maybe we shouldn't throw out morals for monetary gain lol. If your entire store is just gachas you're making a deliberate choice to make money that way because you know people will throw away thousands of linden, potentially thousands of "real" money and you know there are people who are addicted to it. You're making an educated decision to use a system that gets you the most money and I find it hard to believe that you care about your customers. Creators who cannot or will not adapt to the gacha ban will indeed leave or at the very least stop creating and that's also their choice. They're allowed to make that decision. Also on that note; Getting rid of gachas isn't about the money, but making gachas is. Keeping gachas around would actually have been financially beneficial for LL because of how much money they make off of linden sales and marketplace sales. But they know that it's wrong. If a creator can't also make that distinction then I don't really care if they leave.
  4. Hopefully people (consumers) realize that that conveyor belt machine idea is just as much of a scam.
  5. Getting rid of gachas is one of the best things to happen to SL in a very long time. It's honestly astonishing and a little shameful how long it's taken LL to crack down on them. Gambling may be fun for some but it's a cancer for all. I do not want there to be an "alternative" (aka loophole 2.0) to come into our virtual world.
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