You forgot the part where the game runs out of content and the players do pvp among themselves on a certain website

It's not the "wait a minute, why am I doing this" question that makes me stop playing games. It's more like, "am I actually having fun?"

Events that dont come back is definitely one of my biggest gripes with gacha games. I'm glad something like Star Rail actually makes most of their major events permanent

"Wait a minute, why am I doing this?' hits me hard, I don't even enjoy some of the game anymore, thanks for this video, and I'll definitely do the don't login challenge, really appreciate you man

One simple answer for me is with their characters that keeps appear to serve your addiction to them, one day you like that character, then another one come to replace it

If you think HI3 has too many currencies now, this is actually a streamlined version. It took years for them to implement. You should have seen it before lmao.

the best way to play gacha games is to not own a credit card

I have a friend, who plays multiple gacha games, but he isn't really phased by any of those retention tactics. He usually logs in when there is a new update, plays the new story, tries new game mode updates, does some exploration, tries current events while trying to get one of the current banner characters with the free resources he get through that. Then after a week or so when he experienced most of the new content in game A he moves on to one of the other games if there is a new update or collab event or anything in game B and completely stops playing game A for a month or two until there is something new and exciting, even if it means missing out on alot of daily resources and some minor events. Sometimes when he doesnt feel like it, he also just doesnt play gacha and instead plays something like elden ring or persona 5 instead. Of course his gacha accounts will never be stacked with gacha characters or equip, but he values his time and doesn't see the point in playing if there's nothing interesting. He also never spends on gacha currency, not even the 5 dollar month packs, but he does consider spending if there is a low cost direct purchase pack, for example an outfit for 5 dollars flat or a 5 star selection box for 5 dollars. Sometimes I envy him.

I'd like to add a few more notes. Personally, I don't care much for pity, but I think soft pity is pretty devious. For those who do not know of its existence, they feel like they're getting lucky and therefore makes them want to continue playing (sunk cost fallacy: "Oh I got so lucky in this game, never hitting pity once, all my luck is wasted if I quit"). For those who do know of it, it can be a bait. Say there's 10 minutes left on a banner and you're already in soft pity. Would you buy more premium currency to try to get the character? Say you buy the monthly pass and get 2 pulls upfront. You use those 2 pulls and still don't get the character. You're even deeper into soft pity. Surely now you must get it if you just get 2 more pulls (Gambler's Fallacy). So you buy another two more pulls and still don't get it. Now (Sunk Cost Fallacy) it would be a waste if you don't spend more money to get it. (I'd also like to note, some casinos do have a kind of pity; it's just that, of course, unlike gacha games where you could technically say "I value this character at $2000 so I don't mind spending $2000 to guarantee it", obviously no one is gonna say "I value this thousand dollar payout at $2000, so I don't mind spending $2000 to guarantee it". Casinos are controlled to usually rigged to ensure that the house doesn't get too unlucky, nor too lucky, and make sure that someone wins big every so often so as to entice the winner to continue gambling without realizing he's spent $2000 on that thousand dollar payout) For "Beginner Packs", most games also do this so that, once you purchase just one thing, you usually won't have to re-enter your credit card details again, which is a lot of time that can be spent deciding if you really want that thing. It also breaks people away from the "F2P" mindset since they've already spent, which breaks down any inhibitions about spending. Also, I'd like to note Project Neural Cloud's Beginner Pack, because it's pretty unique. For 99c (ah, good ol' $0.99 pricing that's everywhere), you get the character Angela, one pull, as well as a "Monthly Supply Voucher Discount Coupon" that lasts for 60 days. This reduces the price of the Monthly Pass from $4.99 to $3.99. And, yes, you can purchase Monthly Passes even when you already have one. I have no idea how effective this actually is; because you're incentivized to buy the Monthly Pass, but at the same time you probably won't buy the Beginner Pack without also buying the Monthly Pass, making it essentially a $5 investment, which is not what beginner packs are meant to do. FOMO in gacha games is pretty funny. They run a balancing act of trying to make sure that new players don't feel any FOMO for old stuff (or they might quit knowing that they can't get said old stuff), but only for the new stuff. Also, there are some games that don't really care about you logging in every day, just enough days each week. Tower of Fantasy is an example, as you only get Standard Pulls from doing dailies so you mainly care about the weeklies (though, they are time-gated so you do have to log in multiple days each week). Honkai Impact is another example. You can log in only twice each week and still get 87% as much pulls (though, more likely you're logging in thrice each week to get another important currency, which would net you 91.5% as much pulls. These calculations assume there are no events, so realistically, the percentage of pulls you get is higher), provided you do your weeklies. These still drive players to log in as much as possible, but has the benefit of not driving away players who are unable to log in every day. Also also, as a Honkai Impact player, mandatory What do you mean there are too many currencies in HI3? There are only Crystals, B-Chips, Asterites, AE Imaginons, Rusted Insignia, Ancient Willpower, Ancient Legacy, Time Structures, Ether Fuel, Ranger Creds, School Inspector Emblems, Weapon Resonance, Stigmata Resonance, Work Points Cards, Witch Orbs, Pure Witch Orbs, Pure ELF Orbs, Stardust Shards and Coins. Back in MY day, we had stuff like Mithril too, you know. Tsk tsk tsk, young people these days, unable to handle only 19 currencies. (Okay but for real though, I never had a problem figuring out what currency does what)

You actually only scratched the surface. If you research gacha gamedesign and currency economy deeper, you d realise that every single gamedisign decision they made was intentional and has a purpose, especially bad ones (for example, artifact grinding in Genshin is tedious for a reason; and there is a reason why Genshin lacks end-game too). If you delve deep enough, youll find out that gacha is actually a donation sifting mechanism that only cares about player influx being higher than outflux, and where "game" part exists solely to start this machine ON (as a "hook") by getting people inside the sifting process. It is quite admirable how genius gachas are, considering how cheap they are to produce/maintain (gachas recoup their cost within months, and get 100-1000% profits when most businesses in the world work for 15-20%). Seriously, gachas should be heavily regulated/monitored by international laws or banned.

I quit genshin a couple of months ago, and that first day of missing dailies was really difficult. After about a week I've never felt so relieved before. It was so nice to not log on. Although, I still can't fully let it go (thanks to some characters, hell look at my profile picture) and I thought about returning for natlan but man even the thought of logging on genshin is really overwhelming where I'm at right now

"The wait a minute... why am I doing this" feeling you described at 19:42 is EXACTLY how I quit genshin.

Thank you for this video I struggle with gacha addiction, playing 6 gacha games daily is a massive time sink I really needed this wake up call, this video hit me like a splash of cold water to the face.

The whole "why am I doing this?" hits really hard specifically with Genshin, I just log in, start doing my commissions then go "I'm just going to do brain dead farming for months to reach the 5 star pity only for me to have to repeat it again cause I lost the 50/50 or, I get the character then I'll literally have no content to use them in other than brain dead abyss" and I just log out. Idk why I haven't uninstalled the game yet but I probably will in a few days.

I thank god for making me a casual player and not too attached to video games because I have families and friends

I feel most mainstream gacha games are aiming for older people (like 25+ maybe 30+) because this age group used to enjoy video games in the past but they currently have responsibilities and little to no time to keep up with games for long times, most games require certain time and skill investment so you can enjoy them but gacha games are casual and require far less time, it is good for them to have a game where you can log in just for 10 minutes if you are short on time and also be able login for a couple of hours whenever you have time because the game still has content... if people has lots of time to play games regularly and spend this time grinding and playing gacha games i believe theses games will look far less addictive than they look.

All of these issues with gachas is precisely why its basically mandatory to only start playing gacha games as a F2P player and only spend money if you feel you've already gotten significant entertainment value out of the game for free. Its so easy to find yourself in the "why am I even doing this?" stage of the daily grind if you've yet to spend money. If fact, spending money incentivizes you to never have this thought since it forces you to grapple with the fact that you've wasted your money. On a related note, this is also why gacha developers try so hard to make dailies take as little time as possible. I've already burned myself out on plenty of gachas, and have no issue dropping them simply because I got tired of them long before I ever felt the desire to spend money. I was hyped for WuWa like so many other people, but I'm so insanely glad I stuck to being F2P, because the grind sucks and drove me away just like Genshin did. I'm probably going to skip Zenless Zone Zero unless they do something vastly different from the typical Hoyoverse garbage, because I'm already tired of the formula. The more gachas follow the Genshin model, the sooner into the grind cycle that "Why am I even doing this?" thought comes up for me.

I hate it when i try to uninstall gacha in pc like genshin or wuwa, they put character with sad or crying face with text bubble like "are you leaving?" As someone who experience the feel of being left, it kinda hurt me mentally and i just hate it

Not me breaking my gacha habits beacuse I'm so fucking tired of genshin not letting me skip NPC dialogue

gacha games will inherently be evil in nature but I just can't stop playing them, I'm glad im good with money when it comes to these games but it will always suck when you wanna get someone into one of these games because they're just so time-consuming (at least over the course of months and years) and predatory at minimum due to luck based "power" in the form of characters

As someone who's broken free of the gambling addiction of gachas, the fomo is absolutely the worst part. Luckily I still genuinely enjoy Genshin despite its downsides, Limbus Company has basically no fomo at all unless you count event rewards, and I haven't played WuWa long enough for fomo to even start but I'm still having fun with it regardless. One of the reasons I quit Destiny 2 was because of the fact that literally all seasonal content leaves the moment a new expansion comes out, but even worse is that I need to pay $100 just to keep access to my dailies

The "not logging in for a day" challenge reminds me that I've done this at several points with something like Blue Archive because it's designed in a way where it's not going to eat up your time, and if you do spend time with the game, it's probably going to only be a few hours at the absolute most. I got burned out by it's gacha system, but the majority of people play that as F2P players, because they still get quite a bit out of it. If they sold merch, I would rather buy that instead. I think YoshiP (the director for Final Fantasy XIV) saying that people don't have to log into the game every day and treat it like a job is more in touch than any of the current higher ups at Mihoyo. Between the time-gated events that hide crucial story info and the grind to get anywhere, I haven't really bothered playing Genshin Impact in a while because much like open world games in general, it feels like a waste of time to me. While Star Rail has the same grind issue, I think that Mihoyo going for a combat system more down their lane (They can't do engaging action gameplay from my time playing Genshin and Honkai Impact 3rd) and going more towards a closed-off world design more in line with a JRPG really helps things out a bit.

I was literally just recently curious about why gacha games are addictive and how it affects our brain, and here you are having uploaded a video abt it 🤣

This is why I like games like Brown dust 2 and snowbreak who are very respectful of your time. 5 mins here and there and you can get most things done. They dont overstay their welcome with bloat.

I started playing Honkai Star Rail when it's released and I haven't missed a day not logging in. After Wuthering Waves came out and I saw all the hype about it how it's very good, I was very tempted to start playing it. It is very exciting to be a day one player without any FOMO. I've been playing non-stop for the last two weeks. However, as a completionist, I love getting every reward, every achievement a game can offer me (even if it's a gacha). I realized I just don't have much time to play TWO gacha games with that attitude. It is indeed hard to quit a game even if you just bought battlepass and one monthly supply and have been playing for only two weeks. So this expirience taught me that I propably never start another gacha game and there is no point in trying to do that. I felt kinda bad about it because I really love the gameplay in WuWa but your video reassured me my decision is correct.

That's why i left most gacha games and sticked to limbus company You don't even need to pull to get a character you want And the battle pass on limbus has wayyy so much value than other gacha games Which makes a person like me still get alot of stuff even if i can only play for a while The main thing why i bought the bp is to support project moon so that they can fund their new game. They almost went bankrupt. Canto 4 was peak ideal

Already knew 90% of it but it still was a great video I recommend this every gacha player and people trying to get into gacha games I spent a 50% of last summer playing Genshin Impact and when I stopped having fun I stopped immediately I currently play 3 gachas and might try out some new gachas but I'll stick with this 3 and that's it (btw 3 gachas is already insane)

Nikke managed to strike the right balance for me, along with a art style and a story i enjoy.

I love playing Nikke because of the world building and stories, but main story, and side bits of the Nikkes. The world is quite tragic and blessed for Nikkes....I'm to invested in the lore of the game... I wana know more

How can I keep playing Limbus Company when the Developers had no experience making a Gacha Game

The absolutely insane thing is the quality of these gacha games are so much higher than many triple A titles that I'm willing to give their predatory practices a pass. I will absolutely 100% call it out everytime I see it and I won't ever encourage my friends to play these games, but when they play better than most games on the market then I'm playing it.

wow I play like around 10 games right now and this speaks to me so much. Great video!

Sending this to my friend who is stuck in the game they came to hate, that makes them do abyss-type events at 3 am because of time zone, who is upset about new shitty characters but doesn't want to stop because they've already played for 10 years and "it's a pity to waste the effort" I've myself learned the hard way when I reached vip10 in a game and dropped it few months later. I felt so bad I spent so much money. But at least I stopped and never spent money in gacha again. Also, deleted HSR yesterday and feel so relieved not to mechanically do dailies anymore.

Dude, you have the best content when it comes to gacha games in general. May sound funny, but when im looking for a video to watch while eating i always check if i havent watched a vid from yours lol. Keep up the good work man.

Thank you for this video. After hearing your explanation about the sunk cost fallacy i realized that i made the right decision to leave tower of fantasy. At that time i was contemplating whether to quit the game or not since I've spent money to buy several battle passes. And yanuo banner pissed me off so much that i kept sighing every time i opened the game, UNTIL one major update locked me out of the game since i don't have enough storage. That update needed more than twice the game's size which was 69GB, heck i dont even know if it actually needed thrice that amount. So i uninstalled the game thinking that i should get back once i buy new ssd. However, this video made me realize that i don't need to, it feels like some burdens have been lifted off of my shoulders. Thank you 😇

Hey, i'm getting more and more involved in the gacha game ecosystem since i started Gen on realease, today i play Gen, Nikke, HSR, Brown Dust II actively and some games that i kinda stopped playing. I'm really interested in this part of the gaming community and i'm happy that there is some interesting channels like yours that go over it. Keep the good job !

my guy. i truly love your content. keep it up man

Hi Pseychie, I just wanted to thank you for this video. I love that the videos you post are thought through really well and actually increase my knowledge as well, even though the content is fully about gacha games. I personally played almost every gacha game that is currently on the market and have a love-hate relationship with them. Right now though I stopped and actually hope to not pick one up in the nearer future. I‘ll start my first real job in a couple of weeks and want to begin that chapter without any games. I love the real gameplay aspect of games like Honkai Impact 3rd, Honkai Star Rail, Genshin and PGR though. I wish everyone in this community a lot of fun with the games they play but please follow the consensus of this video and don’t overdo it!

Very informative nice vid. I think the reason I drop gacha games so fast (my most played is genshin and I threw in the towel around 20 hours in) is because the f2p experience by design sucks and instead of getting motivated to spend money I just get discouraged and leave

Recently got burned out from playing Blue Archive. Taking a break for now and feeling better for it. Definitely will play more when the anniversary comes up, til then it's not going anywhere.

Thank you for this video!! It'll always keep it in mind when I enter my gachas

“Have fun out there!" I realized that the day I was doing my dailies for the umpteenth time. I logged out to do my job, only to take a break and log in again... I couldn't resist the urge to get my next shiny 5 stars (I was at 70 pityish). SO, I opened interactive map and went on complete autopilot mode, running around the map for primos. Half an hour later, something came over me. Perhaps it was stress that piled up or some sort of anxiety, I had no idea what happened. I just stopped in motion and stared at the scene. Something finally hit me. "Am I having fun?" I whispered in my head. "Is logging in daily, doing the same boring quest, and the same shit over and over fun?" No, it wasn't. I was just chasing the highs I had when I first played genshin. Some of the most fun I ever had in games was early genshin exploration. But now... now everything had become a chore in-game. I alt f4'd and quit gaming for a month. The game to bring me back was a little gem of a game my friend recommended to me. What Remains of Edith Finch. It got me hooked into single player games with good stories. Like you said Gacha games fun are fun, and can definitely provide your time's worth. But NEVER EVER continue playing a game if you feel like it isn't fun anymore.

First video I've seen from your channel and it's enough for me to subscribe, this is what I call great content.

Thanks. I really liked the final part where you explain and remind me that I should play to have fun and not be forced to for any other reason. I Have fun with your video.

solid video. i'm personally juggling 5 games right now and it's way too much. the problem is, i don't know which game to quit/drop because i'm still having fun in all of them. a struggle for sure that i need to figure out lol

As a viewer who has seen you start from a few hundred subs to now, this video is the epitome of your work. I've enjoyed witnessing the growth. Hope you stick around for awhile.

All games are evil these days in one way or another. The thing with gachas is people need to learn how to have fun, rather than dropping hundreds each month. I'm a big supporter of F2P games and abusing whales for financial support, wether the game ends up being a p2w or not respectful of your time enough/ just a shit game is up to the dev to get all those balances right. Mihoyo is a good example of that.

I started playing Brown Dust II after your video.Good recommendation👍

Hey, never seen your content before but wanted to say good video, your last remarks helped me quit hsr and the whole video was very informative, thanks for the good time.

I've been wanting to make a video like that for a long time. You did, and you did awesomely! I covered the video by reacting to it, and I'd be extremely happy to foster discussion about those themes, as a gacha game creator. Thank you for all the dedication you put into it - psychology is not that useless after all ;D - I'll definitely tell everyone from the community go check out your channel! It's good to see things analyzed, and dangerous practices exposed without the need of hating the genre altogether. In fact, I think you have really nice taste on gacha ;D

In reality. Dropping games for me is easy since I only have limited free time in me. I dont think I can drop all the gacha games I am playing right now but I am sure that in time, when I get bored or when I got too busy, the gacha games will have to go as well...

this video should be in the main page of youtube for everyone to watch, u make really good stuff and you know ur shit man, good freaking job

Very well made and explained video. Good job.

This is a good discussion , for my side games i usually have a goal and once i met that goal i try to weigh if theres another goal or consider dropping the game, that goal can either be a pulling a character mostly, investing and using that character or beating the story

The thing about honkai impact, they are aware of it and already streamlined their resources multiple times. The craftting system was much more convoluted in the past too. Though with new updates, for example when we got Part 2 launch, they wanted to make the new gear system not compatible with the old system, because resource management was too different and they wanted to not get in a situation where for example new gacha-only gear from the end of Part 1 people potentially paid real money for suddenly becomes farmable one patch later. It is expected that legacy currencies for Part 1 systems slowly get more and more streamlined and phased out as time passes.

This is my new favorite channel

I think he missed one part of Gacha games where they already have something for if you quit for long periods of time . They implemented Return reward if you stop for more than 30 days of playing .

Great video! The key certainly is to have fun with the video games you play and if you aren't having fun... You're missing out on the main point of video games

Thanks for the vid. Nice work

i love these kind of videos please keep it up

One my "new game trying habits" is to find what I enjoy playing in it, and just ignore everything else as long as that thing is enough. Events and battle passes will always have goodies and materials you could never get at the same speed as a F2P, but are they worth more than actually feeling a connection to the game/story? Games like Nikke do it right, by archiving events and allowing you to experience their stories without that FOMO.

Very informative video, thank you.

What makes me keep playing Gacha games tbh is when it doesn't feel so bad to keep playing because there's convenience to it. The reason I quit Genshin and went to WuWa is because of how convenient it is to play it. I don't have to go to a goddamn statue just to change my character's element, exploring doesn't feel so tedious because I can run without consuming stamina and I can run on walls and do a backflip on edges, and there's just so much convenience that I don't feel bad having to go to play it because it doesn't feel like a tedious activity. With Star Rail, I can literally play another game while it goes on auto. I may not be able to skip dialogues but at least there's an actual tracker of how many chests there are in one place and I don't have to craft a freaking compass just to get them. I came play to relieve myself of stress, not to get more stress.

Thank you for the advice. I will think carefully what to do for my games.

this video shows very well why there is a growing need for stricter regulation in the gaming and especially the gacha gaming space.

Thanks for making this video, it really got me reflecting on which gacha games i should stop playing that aren't fun to me anymore and spend my time and money on other things that are actually fun

I might forsee a Review-video for honkai Impact 3rd at this point. :D Nice video, enjoyed it although I knew all the stuff already. 35 Years old, grewing up the last years with Josh Strife Hayes. Very good and for gacha games orientated recap of his words. Like your style, too. Also: I see P5R-footage, I press like!

I love your vid and made me laugh at myself very much because i fell into these designs more than one time already So glad im only addicted to this one racing gacha in particular by Netease

bruh your content is so good

I agree with what you are saying as far as the manipulation of Gachas. I play a few as time wasters, I travel for work and usually can't bring a game system with me. Honestly, I manage gachas by doing my dailies on each, only pull on gachas that will grant me a lot of progression and/or long term effectiveness. Thankfully there are so many content creators like you that do those kind of reviews. What has helped with spending is using google rewards, if i want currency i just do some surveys or upload receipts. Have fun with your games dude!

Play limbus company, that way you wont have your time fucked. Thats the one gacha game that respects your time.

LimbusCompany - makes you keep playing because we want to know the story, without being predatory

Damn Didn't expect this video to pop up in my algorithm and just made me realize that I've been wasting my time, money and life 😞

Nice video, I practise a lot of you advice, having learned by experience being an HI3 player sinxe 2018 😅 I quit Genshin due to not enjoying it. Quit PGR because i was just going through the motions. Messing around in WuW with no intention of sticking with it (even despote having spent a bit on it). At the end of the day, if I'm not having fun or not happy with the direction if the game I'll drop it (HSR and HI3 are heading in this direction 😊)

For me, it's the fact that characters I build up will have future content to do. In my favourite single player games, I can only train my characters so much; eventually you hit the end and that's it.

Ironically genshin's fomo was so bad that I quit the game and I am not affected by fomo anymore. If I don't feel like playing a game I can just not play it until I feel like it again whether it is for a day, a week or even months.

You should review The Battle Cats (if you haven't already). While the game is old and it is a gacha game, it offers nothing but it's unique and phenomenal gameplay and amazing use of strategy - Ive played it for years and only really ever had 1 burnout because I played practically every day. In fact, you can actually beat the entire game without ever laying a finger on any gacha mechanic in the game (since theres alot of free story units). A good part about this game is that its extremely forgiving. Its easy to get rare units, you lose virtually nothing by taking a break (maybe a few units, but you can always just use strategy to compensate your losses, which is great). People dont really talk about it because its an old game + its not a completely unique and groundbreaking game, but its damn good at what it does for sure. I think you'll like it.

This was a cool video to listen/watch along as I did some of my dailies and felt like "hmm he speaks to me " but Yeah in these couple of years I learned to only play 2 max 3 gachas that are actually fun . I played I think almost all of them and spent money , but now I only play WuWa due to it's combat being fun (will try ZZZ and compare and see who tops then) HSR cause that's super chill and i'm somewhat lucky and invested in the Main story , and always have one I hardly login(or spend money) and just I dunno..it's there as a "I got 30 mins to spend, let's play X " . Still great video !

What also many forget, regarding the first purchase with extremely valuable packs: You now have your payment method saved and its WAAY easier to spend money now. A Gacha, that forces you to reenter your payment information, is a bad gacha (regarding monetization for the devs)

My playstyle with gacha games are. I break when i want to break. I could go on very long hiatus playing them. Like 2 years at GFL, 4 years at world of warships, 6 months at Arknights. Not once, even multiple times. Playing multiple gacha games are actually one of my tactic to divert the gambling addiction. Like If 1 game gives me 10 pulls, i do have 40 pulls by playing 4 games. Although, it doesn't works simply like that. Remember you're telling the pity system? What I'm doing is scraping the freebies to get that pity. It takes months right? By playing multiple games, that number went down, like from 4-6 months to every 1 or 2 months. Also, i love games that doesn't FORCE you to complete all of its content. Arknights is always my example. Every event at Arknights, you can literally farm the event by only doing the easiest, the noob friendly stage 1 or 2 of the event. Because the Sanity cost per reward point is always the same 1:1. That game also has Roguelike wich IMHO offers quite decent reward. Which usually I don't play because it took much time. Do I enjoy the game even without completely doing that? I'd say yes. But on the coin flip, IF i do have an urge to play the game even longer, it also feels rewarding. I'm playing gachas, but I'm still PC master race person. Means i still playing END-able games. It is why i could switch playing them (gachas) ON or OFF. I also do not monetically restricted so i do have to do whatever the game told me to do, even for a rewards, if i don't enjoy it. But also since I'm playing multiple gacha games, it also give me a rationale not to overspend. Feeding 4 kids is Expensive.

14:17 I doubt you've played this... but this happens in Nu Carnival 🙃they'll dangle seemingly valuable limited time packs, some even with SSR characters (though standard characters) and give you like a week to decide if you want to spend like $80 on that pack, plus the limited time event packs that come out with each event

Good video, its important to keep these things in mind while playing gacha games, let alone any games. I've made this mistake with FPS and Rhythm games in my youth and thankfully grew out of it. Luckily I haven't had the issue with being super tied to a gacha. I'f I'm enjoying my time, I will spend some money on it if I see it fit. Currently doing that for only HSR. Everything else I just play whenever new story comes out. I've made it a goal to myself to follow a few rules playing gacha: - Never use a credit card, I only use my tip money from work and only top up via gift car ds with tip money. - If the game starts getting to the point where it's now become a chore to just log in only for dailies and never touch the game at all for a week or two it's time to stop. Especially when I begin thinking "oh man, i still have to log into x game for dailies" with a mentality of dragging your feet towards a chore you hate doing. - If I begin to feel frustrated over the mentality of "there's nothing to do" and it begins to effect my mood, then its time to put the game down It's made it easy for me to balance work, life and gaming while allowing me to play regular games and not stressing out about it.

Great video! The only gacha I actively play is Granblue Fantasy

You should review Guardian Tales next, IMO one of the best gachas that does a lot of the things you mentioned right 😁

I like this style of video. Like commented and subscribed 👍

I've only had 1 gacha game from the probably 30 or so I've tried, some I still play today, that have made me feel that FOMO is real. It's Genshin. FGO initially had it too but after my 5th year with it from launch, I simply cannot care about playing every event these days. (sorry Kagetora, you've had 2 reruns and I STILL havent played to get a single copy) Star Rail is a funny one because it time gates limited events through story progression but I cannot give a hoot about its story anymore so I end up always being behind one patch yet I still play it because I genuinely believe its peak mobage. Simply because its pure spectacle over substance on a mobile device. It never builds up to a satisfying climactic development and just shows the players sizzle reels of what the devs think a good story is, and they show it REALLY well with these well animated cutscenes.

About Gachas....i have always hated how they are so painfully slow, i also hate the fact that you have to pull the same character to power it up, things i never tolerated...also, they take too much time, and i think they need a way to have "artifacts" be less random, like craftable items that boosts drop rates for certain modifiers, and i would like the progression to not get so frustratingly impossible overtime...wonder why nobody did any of this. Luckily, Star Rail specifically, has super quick dailies, fast events, and a more casual approach, those companies need to realize that today we don't have anymore so much time to throw away...we want to enjoy a game, not feel forced to play it.

The correct title is "how gacha games want you to keep playing but they cant", cause they are way too lazy to steal enough stuff from MMO's to get enough end game content which would justify the "please play for years" live service model. Some crappy tower system alongside daily 15 minute of player retention data boosting repeat sh1et is far from enough to keep a serious gamers attention long term. The first real gacha game will be the one which implements raid content alongside a Diablo 2-like infinitely randomized dungeon content which you can grind for however long you want, anytime you want. If we get a gacha like this, i will play it long term. At the moment, gachas are only good for to wait for their story to finish completely, finish it in a month and forget it for ever. Take it as a free story game and move on.

Just some personal stuff, I played Genshin for 3+ years since the third day it launch and blue archive for sometime, that is my only 2 games and gacha games. BA I remain F2P while Genshin I spent RM160 in total. Genshin did manage to keep me playing for 3 years but once Wuthering Waves released, the quality of life that it provide actually make me never feel bad for quiting Genshin. So yea, now I am playing WuWa and BA, no regrets on dropping Genshin even if invested some sunk cost into it.

I think this is the best video u ever made

I can never understand why some players would feel so compelled to whale in gachas. I felt season / annual pass was fair and square which I would feel more justifiable to pay for, but it looks like these days, such passes still can't grab money fast enough, so some brilliant minds came up with a blatant turbo money grab system... gachas. Thousands of bucks spent on a single digital character, not even some kind of NFT... I didn't think gachas would flourish when I first heard about it. Clearly, I was wrong, and this may degenerate into a rather unhealthy society problem in the coming future when everything essential to living is becoming more expensive over time. Casinos would love such a system because there's only money coming in from the gamblers and none flowing back out to them.

The moment you stop enjoying gacha, just quit. Nikke being my latest victim. I am only interested in WuWa and HSR for now

When you got that juicy salary and you said you wouldn't gamble But look at it now Your spending all your hard earn to a game that will forget on you

Great video. Truly. I think I'm done with Genshin. I had fun. But I've asked myself "why i am doing this" way too much.

How to beat a gacha game: Never enter your credit card 😂

Thanks for this video. I learned by trying to MLB a pilgrim banner that I shouldn't spend money on currency to roll the gacha. It will lead to disappointment. Instead, if I will spend money, better to do it for something guaranteed like a skin or something that will guarantee you a specific thing, check the price and see if I want to spend X amount to get it. Everything else I will get from it too, like currency to roll the gacha I perceive as extra bonus. I feel that this way of spending suits best for me

I consider myself lucky in that these systems actually make me want to play the game (and spend money on it) less. Once the daily grind and resource starving starts, I begin to hear a voice in my head telling me "you could just play something more interesting instead of doing these dailies" and then I just alt+f4 and uninstall. Same with spending money, especially for battle passes. I just think to myself "they want me to enter this loop of doing boring dailies AND give them money for it?" No thanks. I guess my brain is immune to this type of conditioning (luckily) since I have played games my whole life and remember the times before all these practices (and that there are games like Baldur's Gate 3 which still provide a full experience without them). But I can see how this can brick a person's mind, especially if they condition you since you are young.

11:15 Fun fact about FNV Slots and blackjack are affected by Luck stat(the higher the better odds of winning)but roulette isn't. And there was one FNV challenge run where someone tried to win roulette with different luck variants, from 1 to 10 and lemme tell ya FNV surprisingly seems like a good anti casino ad in this way, seeing player character lose so many times(even with high luck) is wild but also realistic to irl casinos.

Chad Limbus Company respecting player time, and lets u stack enkephalin modules to spend them another time. Also, 1 frame of Carmen to send the playerbase into a frenzy.

I used to play HI3 for a quite a while but I quit the game little before HSR's release. Little before I quit I was feeling a heavy burn out and the only reason I continued to log in was the story and characters. Those were the things that brought me and kept me playing but also the reason I quit. I no longer had fun with it. The direction and quality took a nosedive at 1 point. I stuck around a little more to see if the story will pick itself up and go back to what made me love the game. It didn't and one day I just didn't login. That day became 2, then 3 and so on. I haven't really touched hi3 in more than 14 months and I am not sure if I want to ever go back to it, because the game already disappointed me once. I was mostly f2p in hi3 but in HSR I am low spender and I have spent quite a lot money in total over the cource of the time(I am day 1 player). Right now I enjoy the game and the direction it is taking and don't feel like my money went for a "bad cause". But in no way will I hesitate to quit the game if it goes downhill, similarly to its predecessor.