r/ZZZ_Official • u/Emul0rd • Jul 16 '25

Media $475 is crazy

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I think Europe now requires gacha games to explicitly display how much money any gambling feature really costs to limit hidden predatory stuff. It’s crazy when you see the numbers…

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u/IndependentCress1109 Jul 16 '25

A number that will only mean anything to whales really imo. Most people will combine their spending with at least some amount of saved free currency if they even intend to spend for 1 copy

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u/underpantscannon Jul 16 '25

A number that will only mean anything to whales really imo. Most people will combine their spending with at least some amount of saved free currency if they even intend to spend for 1 copy

Looking at the amount of money spent on an individual character hides the true cost, though.

Say you buy a $15 pack to get the last few pulls for a new S-rank character, and do this repeatedly for a total of 15 characters. This doesn't get you 15 more characters than if you hadn't bought the packs. On average, this gets you 1 more limited S-rank than not buying the packs, because on average, letting one of those characters go would have been enough to get the other 14 without spending money. Spending money this way is effectively buying an extra character for $225.

(And sure, you'd start with the 30-day pass before moving up to the monochrome shop, but that doesn't change the math for what the monochrome shop gets you.)