The Ever Expanding Pit of Gacha Games

CROB is cookie run ovenbreak!

My stupid ass completely forgot about Cookie Run!! LOL thank you for rejogging my memory. I don't play it but I have a lot of friends who do.

And wow that's really interesting! I'd love to hear more in dms :0 And yeah, it was really hard for me too, it felt bad and sour and I have OCD which really resurfaced when things were at the height of the controversy. but like... It was one of the things that was keeping me going through a really tough time, plus it's a special interest of mine, so it's really hard to just ditch. I've just kinda convinced myself it's fine as long as I don't give them any more money. I don't even boot up the game all that often tbh, the whole thing sucks so bad and I really hope that things change down the line... It's not a pleasant thing to talk or think about but it is important to keep in mind when engaging w/ PM works. I mostly just use their worldbuilding for my own stories nowadays?? My fanproject will have a big fat "Not Affiliated" stamped on it, that's for sure

I'll shoot you a DM sometime soon about it! I can't explain everything I want to as there are parts of my connection to Project Moon that are just much safer left unspoken, but I'd love to chat about what I can! As someone also with OCD (though I'm lucky my case isn't as extreme) I completely understand, and I'm really sorry it made you have to go through all that. I'm glad you're able to manage engagement in a way that's healthy for you though! Speaking of, you'll also have to tell me more about that fanproject! And who are your favorite Limbus sinners? Yi Sang and Sinclair are tied for 1st in my heart.

Out of everything I love PokéMas the most, it's my absolute favorite — I have periods where I log in and play every day for weeks, and periods where I don't touch it for months LOL. I usually get sucked back in when there are new events with the characters I love. (mostly if it's lisia pokémon or emmet) I remember spending all my gems for the 2023 New Year's Lisia pull and didn't get her at first!! But I legged it out anyways, thankfully, and got her in the end. I think this thread might make me get back into it LOL.

I've been MEANING to get back to PokeMas, it makes me happy you have Lisia and Emmet greet you!!<3 I keep meaning to go back to it and save for the inevitable damocles it's holding over my head regarding my two sons, but I just am sooo bad at balancing more than two gacha at a time!! It's time will come though. Between that or Azur Lane. Congrats again on your new years Lisia, Lisia! LOL

...I genuinely wasn't aware that Arcaea was a gacha??? I play the Switch version where you get a lot of the DLCs just from buying the game out of pure convenience, and god, it's probably my favorite touch-based rhythm game. It's soooo smooth and all of the music is genuinely so so so great. (I am not very good at it though because I am a thumb player LMAO)

I'll be honest it's been so long since I touched it I can't remember, so if I'm wrong I'll just remove it from my list. I'm so used to mobage having some sort of gacha in a variation or other these days. I still like it a lot! But I definitely need a bigger screen to properly enjoy it. (I'm also a thumb player)

I tried out D4DJ but it was a bit too difficult for my tastes sadly... and I've been meaning to properly download Arknights! (so I can have another thing to talk about with you neechan!! I know it is something you really really like..)

Gameplay wise D4DJ looks RIGHT up my alley, yet I just haven't touched it! All these gacha downloaded to my phone I don't even open... LOL. Project Sekai is also right up my alley and I have sooo many people tell me that (I also have it downloaded) but that one I'm just adverse to touching for some reason I can only liken to mild fandom poisoning (and being an old guard for Hatsune Miku and admittedly taking psychic damage every time people tell me they thought she was just a 'project sekai character') but hopefully I'll get over it.

Sometimes I use this engine called Sonolus for when I want the base experience for a few of the common games, it basically has the beatmap files without all the gacha trappings and I prefer it much much more!

That's really neat! I will say though in my personal experience rhythm games with gacha tend to be the least predatory gacha out there, because you aren't barred from playing the game even if you run out of stamina usually. (Let me preface that ALL gacha is predatory of course, at the end of the day it's all gambling, it's just about 'where the wall is' that varies per game, and rhythm gacha tend to have the most forgiving wall). Touhou Danmaku Kagura is a great example of this, the wall was almost too forgiving, and as popular as it was it made no money to continue live service because it was too kind to the playerbase.

oh my god hi??????
i havent played it in a while obv but when i did i mained accelerator, my fav original characters (character-wise) are pororotcho and delmin though. alsyo my fav song from it is probably absolute.

Hi!!!!!!! Oh wow, I don't think I played when Accelerator released but I loved him a lot in Railgun. Delmin is soooo cute!! It's probably obvious but my favorite is Coquelicot even if she's pretty hard to play. I love Son Yuriev both as a character and playing him, he's sooo fun (I even roleplayed him a little!) Others I like in no particular order are Adam, Luciano, Megu Megu, Ignis, and Reiya ( I also played), and Gustav. I think Gustav's theme and Coquelicot's are my favs.

(and i would like the link to the video you mentioned )

I was gonna DM it because I was feeling shy about it (lol)... But I watched it again and felt spirited so, here you go! the animation of them in it is sooooo cute. I won't get too off topic but I love it a lot and I hope you do too!! <3

azur lane (may or may not pick back up? dunno)

Oh, hey! I didn't know you'd play AL, Beryl! Got a favorite boat? AL is one of the gacha I've played consistently the longest so I'm kind of devoted to it now, I may be away but my return is inevitable. I'll add you if you're on the same server! (gotta check which im on)

animal crossing: pocket camp (okay whether or not it's gacha is debatable but sure, why not. the fortune cookie thing is a huge part of that game. anyway it was a formative part of my adolescence though i probably wouldnt pick it back up in the future)

...Genuinely forgot this game had gacha LOL. Haven't touched it in ages.

never really been big into gachas.. i've only ever really played two: pokemasters ex (in which i've played the first... year? or so and then when things started to get more complex i fell off of it), and dragalia lost (played this for a bit before also falling off). i actually genuinely miss the latter, i've never really had the time to play it a lot before it got shut down...

Understandable tbh! I was actually pretty shocked when Dragalia shut down, something about it just seemed so unexpected. I must shamefully admit I downloaded it when it launched and then... Never touched it.

I will also admit there was this bootleg Pokemon gacha I played because it had Pokejinkas in it and I thought that was cool even though the game itself kinda sucked LOL. It was cool for the art though.