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That being said, if I have to roll for a character in a Live Service game, regardless of how fair it is or how good the pity system is, you can’t make me interested in playing it. Or worse, I still have difficulty acknowledging the whole thing as an actual, proper video game.

Which mind-boggles me is that there’s a “gacha community”. Bro, at this point you have over nine generations of games at your disposal, with eight and a half gens available through emulation, plus insane amounts of new indie games and custom ROMs every week, and you decided that the backbone of your life would be live-service games? Meh, I’m probably just being a prick, complaining about other people’s hobbies.

"People like what people like", I guess

I'm kinda paranoid to go and install those gachas on my phone, and it's also a genre with zero respect for the player's time and commitment

It's predatory, even if you never waste a single penny, the game still wants you to keep coming back if you want access to everything it has to provide and you might be punished for not being there at the right time. Also, who knows for certain if the game will be available forever? Very few release an offline version after the servers go down.

Gacha lost media is something the preservation and lost media communities don’t want to touch, even with a ten-foot pole.

Very unlikely they will ever release an offline version and it's fated to become lost media sooner or later, I only know of that Megaman that did it. I don't feel like being 'employed' by a gacha, so the closer I go to them is seeing fanart people post

Atelier released the gacha version offline 🫠 Not that I feel like playing it anytime soon

TBH I didn't even remember there was an gacha Atelier 😅 since I still need to play Nelke's game