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Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours agoHeh, I know what Star Rail is. Specifically, Honkai Star Rail, one of the biggest gacha games. It’s a turn based RPG, like Raid: Shadow Legends but anime and with way more production value.
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
gatcha games are trash. its just another form of gambling.
Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
Gacha games are indeed gambling. If you consider all gambling to be irredeemable, then calling them trash as a whole is reasonable I guess.
However, it is inaccurate to say that gacha games as a whole are just gambling. They have other qualities as well, with varying levels of investment and care put into them. Sometimes the effort they put into everything else is minimal and they are basically just gambling with a thin veneer of game on top. Other times, they put an absurd amount of investment into the game, story, and music.
MiHoYo, the developer of HSR (along with Genshin Impact and Zenless Zone Zero) are the later type. MiHoYo has more money than God, and it shows in their investment into their games. The games are absurdly high-effort productions with more polish than any AAA game studio.
Personally, I am very averse to risk and uncertainty. I dislike the gambling aspect of gacha games (not just on principle, but also in my enjoyment). However, I still play some gacha games because I enjoy other aspects of them. So they’re not just gambling. But they are gambling, and it’s fair if people avoid them for that reason (especially people prone to problem gambling).
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
i would rather put my money somewhere else and save it.
Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
That is totally fair. That’s your preference.
Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Some are very easy to play without spending any sort of money, and there’s several that have pity systems in which you’re guaranteed to get what you’re pulling for, so at least they’re slightly better than gambling. But yes, I won’t deny they’re predatory, but I’ve managed to make my gacha journey without spending a penny across the 20+ gacha games I’ve played and dropped for a little over a decade now.
Not all of them have great stories, especially the older games which focused on collecting rather than story content, but within the past few years we’ve gotten great ones that have long arcs that are actually interesting, especially if the game has side lore that you can read about.
I get that a gacha isn’t going to be as good as the average game, but when you’ve only got a few mins to play something and you’re out and about, they’re nice.