• Silverseren@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I mean, Genshin Impact is an outlier in games out of China. A lot of the games, even the big budget ones, from developers there are freemium or gacha trash (and Genshin only minorly avoids that by having a decent story and gameplay).

    The first step would be to produce proper single player games that aren’t reliant on a paid store model. There are some examples of that, but they’re incredibly rare.

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        1 year ago

        As I said, it only minorly avoids the fate of other gacha games by actually having effort put into its story and gameplay.

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          It’s the first gacha game I tried and it is good, but the presentation of rolls for items and characters made me understand how people can get addicted to it. People can choose to ignore spending money on it, but the free rolls is an effective lure for the types that can fall into the deep end.

          Still would not want to see any regulation of it though, since it being regulated would be a move towards handing over real identities to companies to manage which is terrible. I do wish it was just a regular game with DLC expansions than at its core a gacha game.