[New Gacha Policy Discussion]

6 minutes ago, Terra Claremont said:

Gachas are, and have always been, a method of creating revenue for the creator. Nothing else. It uses the lure of one or a handful of very 'special' items to get customers to give them money for a chance on getting an item they want. I have always felt gachas are annoying. You go to a sales event, and you see an item you really want, then you look closer, and realize it's a gacha. I don't want acid green panties, or a dog bowl with smiley faces on it in 15 different colors of smiley faces. I want to buy the item I want without having to pay for an astronomically low chance of getting the item I really want.

There have been so many times I have come across an item and just fell in love with it, to the point that I was willing to pay the price for it, even if was expensive, only to see the gacha machine and let out a sigh, and walk away. So, when you look at it that way, you are losing many other definite sales, with zero chance of having an unhappy customer. I was told by one of the biggest sellers of homes in SL, "Your customers are your store. If they are happy, you're happy. Without them, you just have a building with a bunch of stuff in it." Paraphrasing Paigeypoo.

I couldn't have said any better. Agreed 900%.

6 minutes ago, mori OwO said:

honestly thank god for this. i'm sick of rezzing a piece of gacha furniture only for it to be eaten by the void and lost forever. there really should have been a system in place for this. i hope that gacha-exclusive creators can figure out ways to sell their products that aren't in 5kL fatpacks, because there are a lot of really amazing items that are gacha exclusive. i would personally pay more for a copy/notransfer version of all the gacha items i currently own, particularly furniture.

gacha is a predatory tactic that i don't think should have been allowed to thrive as well as it did in second life, so i'm glad to see it gone.

Voilá.

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4 minutes ago, Yvhuce said:

So, basically, the randomization part has to be removed. I'd assume that the gacha machines won't go away altogether, but that they would need to be retooled so that instead of sending you a random gacha, you're choosing a specific one for X Ls. Perhaps a new model would be that gacha makers may make the various "higher rarity" types a little more expensive to compensate for lack of random chance?

Um... but that's exactly like any OTHER sales method no?
For example, someone goes to Fameshed to purchase a (hypothetical) living room from Aria (for example)
You get the table for x, the chair for X+10, and the couch for X+100. Or the full pack for X+1000.

So if you pay more for rarity, you'd pay more for the bigger item with more anims, or pay even more for the "fat pack", which ends up being... kinda the same thing, just less complicated?

Really... human nature no? Why simplify if they can complicate? XD

Most people just prefer to pay (supposedly) 1000 for a (hypothetical) bed, that was once a rare gacha item and now is being sold as a copy-mod item, over paying 1000 for 10 items they do NOT want and will clog inventory, or be resold on MP or that gacha sim, and never get the damn bed in first place.

It's all very simple and very logical. You get to pay a fair price for that copy mod thing you actually want, over paying a lot for the CHANCE to get that, but going home with lots of things you don't even LIKE.

Maybe it's just me, but I like simple, basic, steady things. I like to see the item and buy. Pay a bit more, but I get to go home with what I want and some change in my pocket, instead of going home with arms full of stuff I don't need and completely broke XD

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OMFG FINALLY!!!! FINALLY now we get to just BUY what we want, instead of spending gazillions to buy that rare arse item those of less than optimal luck can never achieve!!!!

But speaking of fatpacks, the next BS that needs to stop is "special items only in fatpacks". But that's way far beyond LL's reach, I suppose. They cannot control human greed.

As a customer AND creator BOTH, I do not like either sales methods, but right now my friends and I are celebrating this victory. Creators will create nice things and put them AT THE STORE... where we don't need to buy 90 items we don't want, and spend a small fortune attempting to get the one we do want, when we could just buy that one we wanted for a fair price in first place.

Yep... short of winning on some sort of (nonexistent) SL lotto, I couldn't be any happier.