If this is true, then LL is making smalltime SL creators pay for what the larger gaming companies are doing to lure players (who are already paying to play) into making more ingame unplanned purchases. I hate lootboxes, and sneer at ESO's crown crate system, where I have seen players blow hundreds of rl dollars for total and idiotic random tat. Jimquisition has a point in his wonderfully ranty rant, but the people he is poking his ire at are certainly not Second Life creators who sell via gacha.
I will be really surprised if I see the removal of the lootbox system put in place by major gaming companies. But I will be happy to be surprised, for sure
(The rest of this is general floofery and not to your comment, Aribeth
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Disclaimer: after 13 years of SL creation, I have exactly 13 gachas in my store plus one at a current event, and have occasionally at times enjoyed buying from gachas. They can be fun to design for, and I see them as a chance to be a little more lighthearted. I don't hate them (much), and have enjoyed visiting the Arcade and seeing what's there. Most times, I've chosen to not buy from them after looking at what's on offer and calculating the odds. There are different styles of selling via gacha, and some are fairer to the customer than others. I looked at mine today, and decided what to do with each. A couple can be retired or go into lucky chairs. A couple represent considerable work and will be repackaged as full sets. A couple can be scripted to be the fatpacks that perhaps some customers prefer. It's all fine. No biggie.
I do pity merchants who have built their business model on them, and who may have many, and I think LL ought to have given more notice for them. It is a LOT of work redoing vendor textures, and updating everything to other styles of vendors. I see people in that other forum saying oh it's no big deal to swap over but bloody hell it is if you have more than a dozen or so and want to do it properly. The style and aspect ratio of gacha textures to others is very different, and needs a total redo.
It's a bit awful seeing the sneering tone from some people over this. Buy or sell via gacha, or don't. It is not everybody's thing and that is totally fine. I have no interest in rl scratchies or lotto, or 80% of SL gachas but don't have any desire to limit others' enjoyment. I get why LL is doing this, and we will all roll with it like we have with every other change, or not.
I have every confidence that next week, the next thing to amuse and annoy people will appear over the horizon and we will all forget gachas were ever a thing.
Peace out.
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