08-03-2021, 04:27 AM
IMO gachas, till now, they were pretty fun to play and considering the fact that a single pull wasn't very expensive (between 50-75L a pull) you could still get some good items to wear with your avatar, so you couldn't leave empty handed. Personally, I didn't really care about gachas the entire time I was on SL. I wasn't a really big fan of them since I could easily buy the items that I wanted from MP resellers, but I still played them whenever I had the chance.
As I read the blogpost LL made about the new change I was thinking: ''what about the gacha-only events? like Arcade or Epiphany? how are they going to handle this big change? are they going to shut down or literally change the entire event? i don't know.'' These questions are still haunting me as I'm looking for answers, because i'm really curious on how these events will handle it and what are they going to become in the future. Imo I don't think they will be shutting down or something, maybe they will be like any other shopping event with regular products, but you can always share your opinion on this
I also checked out the forum post to see other people's reactions;
- some seem happy about this, they are happy that **finally** gachas will not be a thing anymore
- some are sad about it, I assume those people are the ones who already built an addiction to it
- creators that have gachas are very confused, they don't know what to do with them as of now
- and some people have neutral reactions.
So, my really honest opinion is:
LL did a good thing. They finally did a right thing. I'm also happy that gachas are gone for good, because if you really think about it - gachas are like IRL gambling machines - you are playing for the big prize (in SL being the rares and IRL the money/jackpot, but we will focus on RL for a bit), you eventually win the big prize, you redeem it....and days later or literally after you redeemed your prize, you play again, and again, and again....till you win the big prize again and this chain of events it's just repeating itself. And this chain of events is happening in SL too - you play for the rares, you eventually win a rare, but you ran out of L$ and you want to buy more with your own RL money so you can still play at the gacha till you get all the rares from it. So at this point SL can be named as a ''gacha game'' in some situations and people are building an addiction to it, but unfortunately nobody can control their addictions to stuff. So i'm glad LL did this.
Anyways after the new gacha policy takes effect, people who still have gacha items laying around in their inventory they can still resell them on MP and creators that had gacha machines full of items can sell the items as regular products at their choice.
As I read the blogpost LL made about the new change I was thinking: ''what about the gacha-only events? like Arcade or Epiphany? how are they going to handle this big change? are they going to shut down or literally change the entire event? i don't know.'' These questions are still haunting me as I'm looking for answers, because i'm really curious on how these events will handle it and what are they going to become in the future. Imo I don't think they will be shutting down or something, maybe they will be like any other shopping event with regular products, but you can always share your opinion on this
I also checked out the forum post to see other people's reactions;
- some seem happy about this, they are happy that **finally** gachas will not be a thing anymore
- some are sad about it, I assume those people are the ones who already built an addiction to it
- creators that have gachas are very confused, they don't know what to do with them as of now
- and some people have neutral reactions.
So, my really honest opinion is:
LL did a good thing. They finally did a right thing. I'm also happy that gachas are gone for good, because if you really think about it - gachas are like IRL gambling machines - you are playing for the big prize (in SL being the rares and IRL the money/jackpot, but we will focus on RL for a bit), you eventually win the big prize, you redeem it....and days later or literally after you redeemed your prize, you play again, and again, and again....till you win the big prize again and this chain of events it's just repeating itself. And this chain of events is happening in SL too - you play for the rares, you eventually win a rare, but you ran out of L$ and you want to buy more with your own RL money so you can still play at the gacha till you get all the rares from it. So at this point SL can be named as a ''gacha game'' in some situations and people are building an addiction to it, but unfortunately nobody can control their addictions to stuff. So i'm glad LL did this.
Anyways after the new gacha policy takes effect, people who still have gacha items laying around in their inventory they can still resell them on MP and creators that had gacha machines full of items can sell the items as regular products at their choice.
