Comment on Almost 19% of Japanese people in their 20s have spent so much money on gacha they struggled with covering living expenses, survey reveals - AUTOMATON WEST

ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Games with casino style gambling to unlock characters or skins or whatever. Often times you’ll have like 1/100 chance to unlock a character you want when opening a “box”.

  Hugly mobile popular games run like this with new more powerful characters releasing monthly

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• MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Another comment explained what it is but to explain where the name comes from, you remember those capsule machines where you had to collect all the toys? Those were called gachapon machines, often shortened to just gacha (i might be slightly wrong on a little bit of the words, but they are the capsule machines)

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