Kricket Calamity

What? Everyone should be compensated for working, that's not a "right" that you need to "earn". That's just, wow. I misread your post, I don't don't agree with you at all. Also I worked very hard to get into college, I think most people do.

As in regular release. A release that isn't a gacha, I don't know what else to call it when trying to distinguish them on here. I don't think gachas are junk, if they where then no one would play. I think that's very good advice. This month's shown how unstable the income is in SL. If it wasn't for the community I would have left a long time ago to pursue other things but I might have to now. No, what I'm saying are the words I typed, you're trying to twist them to fit your narrative, which is biased as you're already negative about gachas. Not everyone pays the same amount for a gacha, some people play a few times, some people play a lot. If I price an item at 1000L, some people will be able to afford it but others wont. But if I have a gacha, someone could play it four times and others could play it 14 times depending on what they want and can afford so you can get sales from everyone rather than a few and the ones who spend more make up that difference . The items are a lot lower priced than it would be individually too and I always package my items as doubles so people get two and can share them with friends as well as helping anyone who wants to complete a collection. A lot of us have fun playing and the aspect of earning more helps us keep the community going. You not enjoying something, or not liking it, doesn't mean other people can't enjoy or like it.

Some of us create for small communities, gachas are what help us keep it afloat, wether you like it or not. Many of the smaller communities will die out without the money gachas bring in, there simply isn't enough people to buy the regular stuff. Also resellers won't be able to make money and customers can not always afford to pay for regular items and like being able to pay 50L for an item. I play some gachas once or twice and like getting an item for cheap. Others enjoy trading their items, gifting them, selling them. Who is anyone to tell them that they can't enjoy that. You are trying to put down what customers like to spend their money on because you simply don't like something. You can walk past any gacha machine, any conveyer belt like machine and you don't even have to look at it, let alone play it. Why does it bother you so much that other people are interest in it, not being able to understand people's interest doesn't diminish it for them. There are many things in SL that I have 0 interest in, but I wouldn't want others not to have it. As a creator I'm excited about new alternative ideas so I can keep making for a small community I love and as a customer I'm excited as I enjoy playing the machines and like the idea.

Why? I think all creators should be paid for their time and work, anyone who works should be paid fairly.

The desperation comes from creators who are losing their main source of income. If regular releases made even half of what gachas did we wouldn't have ever bothered with gachas. It takes years to learn meshing, texturing, rigging and then weeks to create items and unless you're in the top stores in SL then you're not even earning minimum wage for often working 60+ hour weeks. Gacha gave some decent money for our work, certainly not what we should be paid for the hours put into it but a lot more than a regular release. Unless customers want to start paying a lot more for regular releases, we're going to have to find another way to make our money or we'll need to leave and find somewhere else to work. I hope that explains it a bit.

There are usually time limits at events, most big events would have the bot kicked out well before it could snipe things. I've been at an event camming around and was kicked out for inactivity after 30 mins.

That's why people are asking questions and bouncing ideas around. No one's going to do anything until we have the all clear from LL but we're not going to get an answer from them a few minutes after a new idea is born.

I think if I understand it correctly. The machine does the random chance without anyone paying. They see the item, pay for it and then the machine refreshes again to a random item. Is that the same as paying for a random result?

So there would be a hover text saying what item out of the machine you'd get when you pay and then there would be a random item generated afterwards but customers always know what item they are getting each time as the name is on the script above? Is that still considered chance or is it not as you know what you're getting? I think that could be a really good alternative if it's allowed. It would be great to get LL's view on this idea to see what they think.

How is gacha any different from someone buying a pack of Pokemon cards. You know what you could get but don't know what's in the pack you've picked and you have the chance of getting rare cards or not getting any rare. Almost all of the money I cash out is from people playing my gachas. This is what I earn my living from. I spend weeks and months, often having 12-16 hour days meshing, resizing and rigging to 5+ bodies, texturing, taking photos, boxing everything up and if I make it a gacha instead of a normal release I get 6x the linden and people can sell, gift or trade their doubles. Also customers are only paying 50L for items that would have been like 200L if they where sold separately and they win an item every time they play. You can even create your own business selling the gachas you win. People who don't like gachas didn't have to play it or could just buy it from marketplace. Saying all of this we are still grossly underpaid for the amount of work we do. I'm doing 60+ hour weeks for less than half of minimal wage. But at least gachas give us some more money for what we do. First you upped the amount of money is taken when we cash out and now this. If banning gachas was a decision you guys chose and not one implemented by different governments, please consider everyone's feedback and what I've put here, we're a huge community and it's important that we support the creators who have made it what it is.