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estebxx on 12 May 2017
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BraLoD said:
estebxx said:

Japan just has me sad with the way some of this games are starting to perform over there, and then we have mobile games with the worst bussiness practices that ive seen in any game (literally just gambling), making over 2 million dollars a month...

At least we still have games like Nier Automata or Nioh coming from there but even those games dont sell nearly as well as they deserve...

Yeah, it's really sad.
At least they still make great games and nowdays we have so much easier access to them so we can still play a lot of them even if they are not selling well on Japan because they still have a decent chance of localization.

Which game was you specifially talking about, though?

If you are asking me about the mobile games (making over 2 million a month) then this two:

I have played both games and i know they are good, but that bussines practices though... its literally gambling of the worst kind because even if you win you just get a DLC character thats incomplete because you need several copies of that same character to max out its ultra attack, (well at least in the case of Fate GO, i dont know if you need to roll the characters several times in Granblue to max or something, but there is probably a similar mechanic, since they always want you to keep rolling).

I want you to digest and really think about what im about to tell you...

- 40 dollars equals a 10 roll at a gacha (lottery if you are not familiar with the term).

- You normally want to get the best character on offer (which is normally limited for a period of time)

- This characters are 5 stars meaning they are the most powerful but also the most rare ones to get

- The chances of getting a 5 star (at least in Fate GO) is 1%

- That one percent only guarantees that you will get a 5 star NOT the specific 5 star character you want

- So divide that 1 percent between the 15 or 17 - 5 star characters that are available on the gacha at all times.

- Now you have a 0,0 something percent of actually drawing the 5 star character that you want...

Would you pay 40 dollars for THAT percent of chances of getting what you wanted? heck even if you paid and actually got what you wanted you still paid 40 dollars for an INCOMPLETE PIECE OF DLC!!!, i cant believe there is people who actually pays for that...and they dont only just pay... they break the bank (spending hundreds upon hundreds of dollars and some people thousands upon thousands of dollars), there are stories of people who even sold their cars and wasted their funds just to get that "waifu" they really wanted...

This is literal gambling and it has those addicting effects as well, only that its way worse because even if you win you got something that isnt worth the amount you spent, at least in a casino you multiply your money.