Are Gachas Considered Loot Boxes (And Gambling)?

[Khamon]

There is a lot of land turning over in Jessie. Gachas are gambling. T

 

[Free]

There is a lot of land turning over in Jessie. Gachas are gambling. T

reason

 

[Lady Darnk Juniorette]

MORE GACHA!!!!!

 

[Free]

MORE GACHA!!!!!

MORE SPAMCHA!!!!!

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Oh hey look the necropost disappeared what a surprise.

 

[Aki]

My two main issues with Gachapon is object permissions and build quality. This has been addressed somewhat where the "token" is used to aquire a copy/?/nt version, but overall I would like to see them being copy/mod. Then there is the build quality; creators pump and dump these things on the same level as stuff sold at shopping events. Usually high triangle counts, bad LoDs, and the inability to use anything but 1024px textures despite having texture resizing tools as part of any 3d modeling suite. Gachapons take the worst of no mod culture and amplify it.

Nothing preventing creators from exchanging a no-copy item with a mod/copy item. I've been doing it since my very first participation at The Arcade back in 2013, just sayin'. I still make good money on every one of such releases, along with my regular releases too.

This thread keeps getting dragged up from the dead, and frankly? Ho hum. Are gachas going to go away? No. Don't like them? Move on and support creators who do more than just chase event money. Develop friendly conversations with creators, who are really just people behind their keyboards too. Make it more profitable for creators to pay attention to what their customers want and to offer it on-demand rather than random play.

And as far as gacha items being worse than general release with regard to viewer performance? In my experience, there is no difference. The vast majority of creators simply do not care.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

This thread keeps getting dragged up from the dead

It was a spammer dropping a seed account.

 

[Free]

It was a spammer dropping a seed account.

Which is then removed and dropped into a salt marsh.

 

[Mechanical]

Nothing preventing creators from exchanging a no-copy item with a mod/copy item. I've been doing it since my very first participation at The Arcade back in 2013, just sayin'. I still make good money on every one of such releases, along with my regular releases too.

I wish you where the rule and not the exception.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

lol

Policy Change Regarding Gacha

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[GoblinCampFollower]

lol

Policy Change Regarding Gacha

Due to a changing regulatory climate, we’ve had to make the difficult decision to sunset a very popular sales mechanism for content in Second Life. It’s widely known as "gacha", and is defined by a chance-based outcome as a result of a payment. We know that creators plan their content releases fa...

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I spit on it's grave!

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Overreaction. They just needed to ban complete gacha.

 

[Free]

Moot.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Seems we have an answer, tho.

 

[Lady Darnk Juniorette]

Well that should end well.

 

[Fionalein]

Seems we have an answer, tho.

Can I take out the "Told you so!" sticker to slap onto the gacha defenders now?

 

[Clara D.]

So, which "end of second life" will this be, I've lost count.

 

[Adeon Writer]

Overreaction. They just needed to ban complete gacha.

This is an interesting take. I fully agree that the complete gacha is awful, but...
You are the first I've heard that feels it is the root of the problem?

So, which "end of second life" will this be, I've lost count.

Being able to teleport will ruin Second Life!

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Can I take out the "Told you so!" sticker to slap onto the gacha defenders now?

Are you five?

 

[Fionalein]

So, which "end of second life" will this be, I've lost count.

The last one of course, because this time it's the real thing,... I see your experience with doom cults is limited? Oh I envy you